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Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Midway hawkers calling Try your luck with me Merry-go-round wheezing The same old melody A thousand ten cent wonders Who could ask for more A pocketful of silver The key to heaven’s door Lakeside Park Willows in the breeze Lakeside Park So many memories Laughing rides Midway lights Shining stars on summer nights Days of barefoot freedom Racing with the waves Nights of starlit secrets Crackling driftwood flames Drinking by the lighthouse Smoking on the pier (not listed on lyric sheet) Still we saw the magic Fading every year Everyone would gather On the twenty fourth of May Sitting in the sand To watch the fireworks …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I looked in the mirror today My eyes just didn’t seem so bright I’ve lost a few more hairs; I think I’m going bald I think I’m going bald Seems like only yesterday We would sit and talk of dreams all night Dreams of youth And simple truths Now we’re so involved So involved with life Walk down vanity fair Memory lane everywhere Wall Street shuffles there Dressed in flowing hair Once we loved the flowers Now we ask the price of the land Once we would take water But now it must be wine Now we’ve been And now we’ve seen What price peace …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart There’s no bread let them eat cake There’s no end to what they’ll take Flaunt the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth But they’re marching to Bastille Day La guillotine will claim her bloody prize Free the dungeons of the innocent The king will kneel, and let his kingdom rise Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace Naked fear on every face See them bow their heads to die As we would bow as they rode by And we’re marching to Bastille Day La guillotine will claim her bloody prize Sing, o choirs of cacophony The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise. …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Waiting for the winds of change To sweep the clouds away Waiting for the rainbow’s end To cast its gold your way Countless ways You pass the days Waiting for someone to call And turn your world around Looking for an answer to The question you have found Looking for An open door You don’t get something for nothing You don’t get freedom for free You won’t get wise With the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be What you own is your own kingdom What you do is your own glory What you love is your own power What …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart All of the seasons And all of the days All of the reasons Why I’ve felt this way So long So long Then lost in that feeling I looked in your eyes I noticed emotion And that you had cried For me I can see What would touch me deeper Tears that fall from eyes That only cry? Would it touch you deeper Than tears that fall from eyes That know why? A lifetime of questions Tears on your cheek I tasted the answers And my body was weak For you The truth

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Sweet memories  Flashing very quickly by Reminding me  Giving me a reason why I know that  My goal is more than a thought I’ll be there  When I teach what I’ve been taught You know we’ve told you before But you didn’t hear us then So you still question why You didn’t listen again Sweet memories  I never thought it would be like this Reminding me  Just how close I came to missing I know that  This is the way for me to go You’ll be there  When you know what I know

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart A pleasant faced man steps up to greet you He smiles and says he’s pleased to meet you Beneath his hat the strangeness lies Take it off, he’s got three eyes Truth is false and logic lost Now the fourth dimension is crossed You have entered the Twilight Zone Beyond this world strange things are known Use the key, unlock the door See what your fate might have in store Come explore your dreams’ creation Enter this world of imagination Wake up lost in an empty town Wondering why no one else is around Look up to see a giant boy You’ve just become his …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Our first stop is in Bogota To check Colombian fields The natives smile and pass along A sample of their yield Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams Golden Acapulco nights Then Morocco, and the East, Fly by morning light We’re on the train to Bangkok Aboard the Thailand Express We’ll hit the stops along the way We only stop for the best Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon We burn the midnight oil The fragrance of Afghanistan Rewards a long day’s toil Pulling into Katmandu Smoke rings fill the air Perfumed by a Nepal night The Express gets you there

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I. Overture “And the meek shall inherit the earth.” II. Temples of Syrinx “…The massive grey walls of the Temples rise from the Heart of every Federation city. I have always been awed by them, to think that every single facet of every life is regulated and directed from within! Our books, our music, our work and play are all looked after by the benevolent wisdom of the priests…” We’ve taken care of everything The words you read The songs you sing The pictures that give pleasure To your eye One for all and all for one Work together Common sons Never need to wonder …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Prologue In the constellation of Cygnus There lurks a mysterious, invisible force The Black Hole Of Cygnus X-1 Six Stars of the Northern Cross In mourning for their sister’s loss In a final flash of glory Nevermore to grace the night… 1 Invisible To telescopic eye Infinity The star that would not die All who dare To cross her course Are swallowed by A fearsome force Through the void To be destroyed Or is there something more? Atomized — at the core Or through the Astral Door — To soar… 2 I set a course just east of Lyra And northwest of Pegasus Flew into …