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Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Geddy Lee Who’s come to slay the dragon – Come to watch him fall? Making arrows out of pointed words Giant killers at the call Too much fuss and bother Too much contradiction And confusion Peel away the mystery Here’s a clue to some real motivation All there really is The two of us And we both know why we’ve come along Nothing to explain It’s a part of us To be found within a song What happened to our innocence – Did it go out of style? Along with our naiveté – No longer a child Different eyes see different things Different hearts Beat on different …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart We are secrets to each other Each one’s life a novel No-one else has read Even joined in bonds of love We’re linked to one another By such slender threads We are planets to each other Drifting in our orbits To a brief eclipse Each of us a world apart Alone and yet together Like two passing ships Just between us I think it’s time for us to recognize The differences we sometimes fear to show Just between us I think it’s time for us to realize The spaces in between Leave room for you and I to grow We are strangers to each other …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart The clouds prepare for battle In the dark and brooding silence Bruised and sullen stormclouds Have the light of day obscured Looming low and ominous In twilight premature Thunderheads are rumbling In a distant overture All at once, The clouds are parted Light streams down In bright unbroken beams Follow men’s eyes As they look to the skies The shifting shafts of shining Weave the fabric of their dreams…

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart There are those who think that life Has nothing left to chance With a host of holy horrors To direct our aimless dance A planet of playthings We dance on the strings Of powers we cannot perceive “The stars aren’t aligned – Or the gods are malign” Blame is better to give than receive You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path that’s clear I will choose free will. There are those who think that …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Begin the day With a friendly voice A companion, unobtrusive Plays the song that’s so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood Off on your way Hit the open road There is magic at your fingers For the Spirit ever lingers Undemanding contact In your happy solitude. Invisible airwaves Crackle with life Bright antennae bristle With the energy Emotional feedback On a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price – Almost free… All this machinery Making modern music Can still be open-hearted Not so coldly charted It’s really just a question Of your honesty One likes to believe In the freedom of music …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Unstable condition: A symptom of life, In mental, And environmental change Atmospheric disturbance – The feverish flux, Of human interface And interchange The impulse is pure – Sometimes our circuits get shorted, By external interference Signals get crossed – And the balance distorted By internal incoherence A tired mind become a shape-shifter Everybody need a mood lifter Everybody need reverse polarity Everybody got mixed feelings About the function and the form. Everybody got to deviate From the norm An ounce of perception – A pound of obscure Process information At half speed Pause: Rewind – replay – Warm memory chip Random-sample – Hold the one …

(Part III of Fear) Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart The night is black Without a moon The air is thick and still The vigilantes gather on The lonely torchlit hill Features distorted in the flickering light The faces are twisted and grotesque Silent and stern in the sweltering night The mob moves like demons possessed Quiet in conscience, calm in their right Confident their ways are best The righteous rise With burning eyes Of hatred and ill-will Madmen fed on fear and lies To beat, and burn, and kill They say there are strangers, who threaten us In our immigrants and infidels They say there is strangeness, too dangerous In …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I Grim-faced and forbidding Their faces closed tight An angular mass of New Yorkers Pacing in rhythm Race the oncoming night They chase through the streets of Manhattan Head-first humanity Pause at a light Then flow through the streets of the city They seem oblivious To a soft spring rain Like an English rain So light, yet endless From a leaden sky The buildings are lost In their limitless rise My feet catch the pulse And the purposeful stride I feel the sense of possibilities I feel the wrench of hard realities The focus is sharp in the city II Wide-angle watcher On life’s ancient …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Living on a lighted stage Approaches the unreal For those who think and feel In touch with some reality Beyond the gilded cage Cast in this unlikely role, Ill-equipped to act With insufficient tact One must put up barriers To keep oneself intact Living in the Limelight The universal dream For those who wish to seem Those who wish to be Must put aside the alienation Get on with the fascination The real relation The underlying theme Living in a fisheye lens Caught in the camera eye I have no heart to lie I can’t pretend a stranger Is a long-awaited friend All the world’s …

Music: Geddy Lee and Neil Peart Instrumental