Rush.com

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart packaged like a rebel or a hero target mass appeal to make an audience feel he really means it package the illusion of persona careful to conceal the fact that she’s only too real she’s got to screen it hit you in a soft place a melody so sweet a strong and simple beat that you can dance to Watch his every move SUPERCONDUCTOR Orchestrate illusions SUPERCONDUCTOR Watch his every move SUPERCONDUCTOR Hoping you’ll believe Designing to deceive That’s entertainment he can put a target on the market bask in your applause reality withdraws now he believes it the role becomes the actor she’s addicted …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart if I could wave my magic wand… I am made from the dust of the stars and the oceans flow in my veins Here I hide in the heart of the city like a stranger coming out of the rain the evening plane rises up from the runway over constellations of light I look down into a million houses and wonder what you’re doing tonight If I could wave my magic wand I’d make everything all right I’m not one to believe in magic But I sometimes have a second-sight I’m not one with a sense of proportion When my heart still changes overnight I …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I’ve stood upon my mountaintop and shouted at the sky walked above the pavement with my sense amplified  – I get this feeling all my nerves are naked wires tender to the touch sometimes super-sensitive but who can care too much?  – I get this feeling Scars of pleasure Scars of pain Atmospheric changes Make them sensitive again each emotional injury leaves behind its mark sometimes they come tumbling out like shadows in the dark  – I get this feeling when I think about all I have seen and all I’ll never see when I think about the people who have opened up to me  …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart girl before the mirror appraises her disguise child become a mother tries to fix her eyes no more of his excuses it has to be today she can keep her fantasy if she can get away paint her name on a one-way street painted cheeks with angry heat wounded pride on painted eyes paint the night with battlecries all puffed up with vanity we see what we want to see to the beautiful and the wise the mirror always lies boy before the mirror checks his camoflauge polishes his armor and the charger in the garage no more lame excuses it has to be tonight …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart proud swagger out of the schoolyard waiting for the world’s applause rebel without a conscience martyr without a cause static on your frequency electrical storm in your veins raging at unreachable glory straining at invisible chains and now you’re trembling on a rocky ledge staring down into a heartless sea can’t face life on a razor’s edge nothing’s what you thought it would be All of us get lost in the darkness Dreamers learn to steer by the stars All of us do time in the gutter Dreamers turn to look at the cars turn around and turn around and turn around Turn around and …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart energy is contagious enthusiasm spreads tides respond to lunar gravitation everything turns in synchronous relation laughter is infectious excitement goes to my head winds are stirred by planets in rotation sparks ignite and spread new information respond, vibrate, feed back, resonate sun dogs fire on the horizon meteor rain stars across the night this moment may be brief but it can be so bright hope is epidemic optimism spreads bitterness breeds irritation ignorance breeds imitation sun dogs fire on the horizon meteor rain stars across the night this moment may be brief but it can be so bright reflected in another source of light when …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart how many times do you hear it? it goes on all day long everyone knows everything and no one’s ever wrong until later who can you believe? it’s hard to play it safe but apart from a few good friends we don’t take anything on faith until later Show Don’t Tell SHOW ME DON’T TELL ME You’ve figured out the score SHOW ME DON’T TELL ME I’ve heard it all before SHOW ME DON’T TELL ME I don’t care what you say SHOW ME DON’T TELL ME you can twist perceptions reality won’t budge you can raise objections I will be the judge and the …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Just another hunter, like a wolf in the sun Just another junkie on a scoring run Just another victim of the things he has done Just another day — in the life of a loaded gun THE ODDS GET EVEN — You name the game THE ODDS GET EVEN — The stakes are the same YOU BET YOUR LIFE Just another winner, pours his life down the drain Just another island in a hurricane Just another loser, like a cat in the rain Just another day — in the path of a speeding train THE ODDS GET EVEN — You name the game THE ODDS GET EVEN — The …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart You just don’t get it What it is … well, you’re not really sure You move like you’re walking on thin ice Talking like you’re still insecure Time is a spiral — Space is a curve I know you get dizzy, but try not to lose your nerve Life is a diamond you turn into dust Waiting for rescue, and I know you just Don’t get it  You just don’t get it Neurotica — Exotica It’s just Erotica — Hypnotica It’s just Psychotica — Chaotica It’s just Exotica — Neurotica You just don’t get it Baby, don’t you ask yourself why? If you don’t like …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Like a million little doorways All the choices we made All the stages we passed through All the roles we played So many different directions Our separate paths might have turned With every door that we opened Every bridge that we burned Somehow we find each other Through all that masquerade Somehow we found each other Somehow we have stayed In a state of grace I DON’T BELIEVE IN DESTINY OR THE GUIDING HAND OF FATE I DON’T BELIEVE IN FOREVER OR LOVE AS A MYSTICAL STATE I DON’T BELIEVE IN THE STARS OR THE PLANETS OR ANGELS WATCHING FROM ABOVE BUT I BELIEVE THERE’S …