We Hold On

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart How many times Do we tire of all the little battles Threaten to call it quits Tempted to cut and run How many times Do we weather out the stormy evenings Long to slam the front door Drive away into the setting sun Keep going until dawn How many times must another line be drawn We could be down and gone But we hold on How many times Do we chafe against the repetition Straining against a fate Measured out in coffee breaks How many times Do we swallow our ambitions Long to give up the same old way Find another

Malignant Narcissism

Music: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart Instrumental

Good News First

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart The best we can agree on Is it could have been worse What happened to your old Benevolent universe’ You know the one with stars That revolve around you Beaming down full of promises To bring good news You used to feel that way The saddest words you could ever say But I know you’ll remember that day And the most beautiful words I could ever say The worst thing about it all Is that you might have been right And I’m still not really sure What started that fight But I still get this feeling There’s more trouble ahead So

Bravest Face

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Though we might have precious little It’s still precious I like that song About this wonderful world It’s got a sunny point of view And sometimes I feel it’s true At least for a few of us I like that world It makes a wonderful song But there’s a darker point of view That’s sadly just as true For so many among us In the sweetest child there’s a vicious streak In the strongest man there’s a child so weak In the whole wide world there’s no magic place So you might as well rise, put on your bravest face I

Faithless

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I’ve got my own moral compass to steer by A guiding star beats a spirit in the sky And all the preaching voices – Empty vessels ring so loud As they move among the crowd Fools and thieves are well disguised In the temple and marketplace Like a stone in the river Against the floods of spring I will quietly resist Like the willows in the wind Or the cliffs along the ocean I will quietly resist I don’t have faith in faith I don’t believe in belief You can call me faithless But I still cling to hope And I

Hope

Music: Alex Lifeson Instrumental

The Way The Wind Blows

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Now it’s come to this It’s like we’re back in the Dark Ages From the Middle East to the Middle West It’s a world of superstition Now it’s come to this Wide-eyed armies of the faithful From the Middle East to the Middle West Pray, and pass the ammunition So many people think that way You gotta watch what you say To them and them, and others too Who don’t seem to see things the way you do We can only grow the way the wind blows On a bare and weathered shore We can only bow to the here and

The Main Monkey Business

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Instrumental

Spindrift

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart As the waves crash in On the western shore The wind blows fierce from the east Wavetops torn into flying spindrift As the waves crash in On the western shore It makes me feel uneasy The spray that’s torn away Is an image of the way I feel What am I supposed to say? Where are the words to answer you When you talk that way? As the sun goes down On the western shore The wind blows hard from the east It whips the sand into a flying spindrift As the sun goes down On the western shore It makes

The Larger Bowl

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart (a pantoum) if we’re so much the same, like I always hear why such different fortunes and fates? some of us live in a cloud of fear some live behind iron gates why such different fortunes and fates? some are blessed and some are cursed some live behind iron gates while others see only the worst some are blessed and some are cursed the golden one or scarred from birth while others only see the worst such a lot of pain on the earth the golden one or scarred from birth some things can never be changed such a lot of