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Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I don’t want to face The killer instinct — Face it in you or me We carry a sensitive cargo Below the waterline — Ticking like a time bomb With a primitive design Behind the finer feelings — This civilized veneer — The heart of a lonely hunter Guards a dangerous frontier The balance can sometimes fail — Strong emotions can tip the scale — Don’t want to silence A desperate voice For the sake of security No one wants to make A terrible choice On the price of being free I don’t want to face The killer instinct — Face it in you or …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Basic elemental Instinct to survive Stirs the higher passions Thrill to be alive Alternating currents In a tidewater surge Rational resistance To an unwise urge anything can happen From the point of conception To the moment of Truth At the point of surrender To the burden of proof From the point of ignition To the final drive The point of the journey Is not to arrive anything can happen Basic temperamental Filters on our eyes Alter our perceptions Lenses polarize Alternating currents Force a show of hands Rational responses Force a change of plans anything can happen From a point on the compass To magnetic …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart A memo to a higher office Open letter to the powers-that-be To a God, a king, a head of state A captain of industry To the movers and the shakers — Can’t everybody see? It ought to be second nature — I mean, the places where we live! Let’s talk about this sensibly — We’re not insensitive I know progress has no patience — But something’s got to give I know you’re different — You know I’m the same We’re both too busy To be taking the blame I’d like some changes But you don’t have the time We can’t go on thinking It’s a …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart It went right by me — At the time it went over my head I was looking out the window I should have looked At your face instead It went right by me — Just another wall There should have been a moment When we let our barriers fall I never meant What you’re thinking — That is not what I meant at all… Well I guess We all have these feelings We can’t leave unreconciled Some of them burned on our ceilings Some of them learned as a child The things that we’re concealing Will never let us grow Time will do its healing …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I turn my back to the wind To catch my breath, Before I start off again. Driven on Without a moment to spend To pass an evening With a drink and a friend I let my skin get too thin I’d like to pause, No matter what I pretend Like some pilgrim — Who learns to transcend — Learns to live As if each step was the end Time stand still — I’m not looking back — But I want to look around me now See more of the people And the places that surround me now Freeze this moment A little bit longer Make …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart and Pye Dubois Tough times demand tough talk demand tough hearts demand tough songs demand — We can rise and fall like empires Flow in and out like the tide Be vain and smart, humble and dumb We can hit and miss like pride We can circle around like hurricanes Dance and dream like lovers Attack the day like birds of prey Or scavengers under cover Look in — To the eye of the storm Look out — For the force without form Look around — At the sight and the sound Look in look out look around — We can move with savage grace To …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart the restless wind has seen all things in every kind of light rising with the full moon to go howling through the night the sleepless wind has heard all things between the sea and sky in the canyons of the city you can hear the buildings cry oh the wind can carry all the voices of the sea oh the wind can carry all the echoes home to me Run with wind and weather To the music of the sea All four winds together Can’t bring the world to me Chase the wind around the world I want to look at life – In the …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart hand over fist paper around the stone scissors cut the paper cut the paper to the bone hand over fist paper around the stone scissors cut the paper and the rock must stand alone I could disappear into the crowd but not if I keep my head in the clouds I could walk away so proud it’s easy enough if you don’t laugh too loud I thought I was okay alone wait for the postman and the telephone lost in a world of my own I thought I could run alone thought I could run through the night alone Hand over hand Doesn’t seem so …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart nature has some new plague to run in our streets history some new wrinkle we are doomed to repeat fugitives at the bedroom door lovers pause to find an open store rain is burning on the forest floor and the red tide kisses the shore THIS IS NOT A FALSE ALARM THIS IS NOT A TEST stay out of the sun it only burns my skin sky full of poison and the atmosphere’s too thin  bless the sun, the rain no more river running like an open sore black wind falling to the ocean floor and the red tide washes ashore THIS IS NOT A …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart there’s a snake coming out of the darkness parade from paradise end the need for eden chase the dreams of merchandise there is tic and toc in atomic leaders make a deal the cosmic is largely comic a con they couldn’t conceal There is no safe seat at the feast Take your best stab at the beast The night is turning thin The saint is turning to sin raise the art to resistance danger dare to be grand pride reduced to humble pie diamonds down to sand take heart from earth and weather the brightness of new birth take heart from the harvest shave the …