In The End

Music and Lyrics: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson I can see, what you mean It just takes me longer I can feel, what you feel It just makes you stronger You can take me for a little while You can take me, you can make me smile…. In the end I know, I know, I know The feeling grows I see, I see, I see That it’s got to be I can do, what you do You just do it better I can cry, like you cry It just makes me sadder I can shine, like you shine It doesn’t make me brighter If I think, like you think It don’t make my

Rivendell

Music: Geddy Lee Lyrics: Neil Peart Sunlight dances through the leaves Soft winds stir the sighing trees Lying in the warm grass Feel the sun upon your face Elven songs and endless nights Sweet wine and soft relaxing lights Time will never touch you Here in this enchanted place I’ve traveled now for many miles It feels so good to see the smiles of Of friends who never left your mind When you were far away From the golden light of coming dawn Till the twilight when the sun is gone We treasure every season And every passing day You feel there’s something calling you You’re wanting to return To where the

Making Memories

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart There’s a time for feeling as good as we can The time is now, and there’s no stopping us There’s a time for living as high as we can Behind us you will only see our dust So we’ll just keep smiling, move onward ev’ry day Try to keep our thoughts away from home We’re travelling all around, no time to settle down Satisfy our wanderlust to roam. You know we’re having good days And we hope they’re going to last Our future still looks brighter Than our past We feel no need to worry No reason to be sad Our memories remind us Maybe

Fly By Night

Music: Geddy Lee Lyrics: Neil Peart (original lyrics) airport scurry – flurry faces parade of passers-by people going many places with a smile or just a sigh waiting, waiting, pass the time another cigarette get in line – gate thirty-nine the time is not here yet….. Why try, I know why The feeling inside me says it’s time I was gone Clear head, new life ahead I want to be king now not just one more pawn Fly by night away from here Change my life again Fly by night goodbye my dear My ship isn’t coming and I just can’t pretend Moon rise, thoughtful eyes Staring back at me from the

By-Tor And The Snow Dog

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I. At The Tobes of Hades  The Tobes of Hades lit by flickering torchlight The netherworld is gathered in the glare Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the northlight The sign of Eth is rising in the air By-Tor – Knight of Darkness, Centurion of evil – Devil’s Prince II. Across the Styx Across the River Styx out of the lamplight His nemesis is waiting at the gate The Snow Dog – ermine glowing in the dampnight Coal black eyes, shimmering with hate By-Tor and the Snow Dog Square for battle, let the fray begin….. III. The Battle i) Challenge And Defiance ii) 7/4 War

Beneath, Between And Behind

Music: Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Ten score years ago Defeat the kingly foe A wondrous dream came into being Tame the trackless waste No virgin land left chaste All shining eyes but never seeing Beneath the noble bird Between the proudest words Behind the beauty, cracks appear Once with heads held high They sang out to the sky Why do their shadows bow in fear Watch the cities rise Another ship arrives Earth’s melting pot, and ever growing Fantastic dreams come true Inventing something new The greatest minds, but never knowing The guns replace the plow Facades are tarnished now The principles have been betrayed The dreams’s gone stale But still

Best I Can

Music and Lyrics: Geddy Lee Got a living that’s rough A future that’s tough You know what I mean Blanker’s and boasters All the bluffers and posers I’m not into that scene You can tell me that I’ve got no class Look around youl see who’s laughing last Don’t give me speeches ’cause they’re oh so droll Leave me alone and let me rock and roll I do the best that I can I’m just what I am I do the best I can I know just what I am Got an itching to rock A hate for small talk I’m funny that way Got my sights on the stars Won’t

Anthem

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Know that your place in life Is where you want to be Don’t let them tell you that You owe it all to me Keep on looking forward No use in looking round Carry your head above the crowd And they won’t bring you down Anthem of the heart and mind A funeral dirge for eyes gone blind We marvel after those who sought New wonders in the world they wrought. Live for yourself, there’s no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts Will only cry for more Though I know they’ve always Told you selfishness is wrong Yet it was

The Fountain of Lamneth

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart except “Panacea” and “Bacchus Plateau” – Music: Geddy Lee/Lyrics: Neil Peart I. In the Valley I am born I am me I am new I am free Look at me I am young Sight unseen Life unsung… My eyes have just been opened And they’re open very wide Images around me Don’t identify inside Just one blur I recognize The one that soothes and feeds My way of life is easy And as simple are my needs Yet my eyes are drawn toward The mountain in the east Fascinates and captivates Gives my heart no peace The mountain holds the sunrise In the prison of the night Till

The Necromancer

A Short Story by Rush Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I. Into Darkness As grey traces of dawn tinge the eastern sky, the three travelers, men of Willow Dale, emerge from the forest shadow. Fording the River Dawn, they turn south, journeying into the dark and forbidding lands of the Necromancer. Even now the intensity of his dread power can be felt, weakening the body and saddening the heart. Ultimately they will become empty, mindless spectres. Stripped of will and soul. Only a thirst for freedom gives them hunger for vengeance… Silence shrouds the forest As the birds announce the dawn Three travellers ford the river And southward journey on