There is never love without pain
Life is the power that remains
-Rush (Secret Touch)

Sometimes I freeze -- until the light comes
Sometimes I fly -- into the night
Sometimes I fight -- against the darkness
Sometimes I'm wrong -- sometimes I'm right
-Rush (Freeze)

Did I have a dream?
Or did the dream have me?
-Rush (Nocturne)

I wasn't praying for magic
I was hiding in plain sight
Rising up from the surface
To fly into the light
-Rush (Sweet Miracle)

Reflected light
To another's sight
And the moon tells a lover's story

My borrowed face
And my third-hand grace
Only reflect your glory

You're still out of reach
For a dream to rise to
Earthshine
-Rush (Earthshine)

Surge of energy, spark of inspiration
The breath of love is electricity
Maybe Time is a bird in flight
Endlessly mocking
Here we come out of the cradle
Endlessly rocking
Endlessly rocking
-Rush (Out of the Cradle)

Horizon to horizon
memory written on the wind
Fading away, like an hourglass, grain by grain
Swept away like voices in a hurricane

In a vapor trail
-Rush (Vapor Trail)

Foot up the stair
Shoulder to the wheel
You can't tell yourself not to care
You can't tell yourself how to feel

That's how it is

Another cloudy day
-Rush (How It Is)

What is the meaning of this
And the stars look down
What are you trying to do?
And the stars look down
Was it something I said?
And the stars look down
Something you'd like me to do?
And the stars look down
-Rush (The Stars Look Down)

winding like an ancient river
the time is now again

hope is like an endless river
the time is now again
-Rush (Ceiling Unlimited)

Sunrise in the mirror
Lightens that invisible load
Riding on a nameless quest
Haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider
-Rush (Ghost Rider)

Sunrise on the road behind
Sunset on the road ahead
There's nothing to stop you now
Nothing can stop you now
-Rush (Ghost Rider)

All this time we're talking and sharing our Rational View
A billion other voices are spreading other news
All this time we're living and trying to understand
Why a billion other choices are making their demands
-Rush (Peaceable Kingdom)

Talk of a Peaceable Kingdom
Talk of a time without fear
The ones we wish would listen
Are never going to hear
-Rush (Peaceable Kingdom)

All this time we're shuffling and laying out all our cards
While a billion other dealers are slipping past our guards
All this time we're hoping and praying we all might learn
While a billion other teachers are teaching them how to burn
-Rush (Peaceable Kingdom)

Dream of a Peaceable Kingdom
Dream of a time without war
The ones we wish would hear us
Have heard it all before
-Rush (Peaceable Kingdom)

All this time we're burning like bonfires in the dark
A billion other blazes are shooting off their sparks
Every spark a drifting ember of desire
To fall upon the earth and spark another fire

A homeward angel on the fly
A wave toward the clearing sky
-Rush (Peaceable Kingdom)

Celebrate the moment
As it turns into one more
Another chance at victory
Another chance to score
-Rush (One Little Victory)

The measure of the moment
Is a difference of degree
Just one little victory
A spirit breaking free
One little victory
The greatest act can be
One little victory
-Rush (One Little Victory)

Roll away the stone
(Sisyphus)
Roll away the stone
If you could just move yours
I could get working on my own
-Rush (Carve Away The Stone)

I can learn to resist
Anything but temptation
I can learn to co-exist
With anything but pain
-Rush (Resist)

I can learn to compromise
Anything but my desires
I can learn to get along
With all the things I can't explain
-Rush (Resist)

I can learn to resist
Anything but frustration
I can learn to persist
With anything but aiming low
-Rush (Resist)

I can learn to close my eyes
To anything but injustice
I can learn to get along
With all the things I don't know
-Rush (Resist)

You can surrender
Without a prayer
But never really pray
Without surrender

You can fight
Without ever winning
But never ever win
Without a fight
-Rush (Resist)

Astronauts in the weightlessness of pixellated space
Exchange graffiti with a disembodied race
I can save the universe in a grain of sand
I can hold the future in my virtual hand
-Rush (Virtuality)

It seems to me
While it's true that every dog will have his day
When all the bones are buried
There is barely time to go outside and play
-Rush (Dog Years)

I'd rather be a tortoise from Galapagos
Or a span of geological time
Than be living in these dog years
-Rush (Dog Years)

It seems to me
As well make our own few circles 'round the block
We've lost our senses
For the higher-level static of talk
-Rush (Dog Years)

I believe in what I see
I believe in what I hear
I believe that what I'm feeling
Changes how the world appears
-Rush (Totem)

Angels and demons inside of me
Saviors and Satans all around me

Sweet chariot, swing low, coming for me
-Rush (Totem)

The mighty ocean
Dances with the moon
The silent forest
Echoes with the loon
-Rush (Time And Motion)

Time and motion
Wind and sun and rain
Days connect like boxcars in a train

Fill them up with precious cargo
Squeeze in all that you can find
Spontaneous elation
And the long-enduring kind
-Rush (Time And Motion)

Time and motion
Flesh and blood and fire
Lives connect in webs of gold and razor wire

Spin a thread of precious contact
Squeeze in all that you can find
Spontaneous relations
And the long-enduring kind
-Rush (Time And Motion)

Time and motion
Live and love and dream
Eyes connect like interstellar beams

Superman in Supernature
Needs all the comfort he can find
Spontaneous emotion
And the long-enduring kind
-Rush (Time And Motion)

Take it easy on me now--
I'd be there if I could
I'm so full of what is right
I can't see what is good
-Rush (The Color Of Right)

Make it easy on yourself
There's nothing more you can do
You're so full of what is right
You can't see what is true
-Rush (The Color Of Right)

A quality of justice
A quantity of light
A particle of mercy
Makes the color of right

Gravity and distance
Change the passage of light
Gravity and distance
Change the color of right
-Rush (The Color Of Right)

Half the world hates
What half the world does every day
Half the world waits
While half gets on with it anyway
-Rush (Half The World)

Half the world lives
Half the world makes
Half the world gives
While the other half takes
-Rush (Half The World)

Half the world is
Half the world was
Half the world thinks
While the other half does
-Rush (Half The World)

Driven in-Driven to the edge
Driven out-On the thin end of the wedge
Driven off-By things I've never seen
Driven on-By the road to somewhere I've never been

BUT IT'S MY TURN TO DRIVE
-Rush (Driven)

The road unwinds toward me
What was there is gone
The road unwinds before me
And I go riding on
-Rush (Driven)

Here we go-in slow-mo
Video vertigo
Test for echo
-Rush (Test For Echo)

EVERYDAY PEOPLE
EVERYDAY SHAME
EVERYDAY PROMISE
SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES

EVERYDAY SUNRISE
ANOTHER EVERYDAY STORY
RISE FROM THE ASHES --
A BLAZE OF EVERYDAY GLORY
-Rush (Everyday Glory)

If the future's looking dark
We're the ones who have to shine
If there's no one in control
We're the ones who draw the line
Though we live in trying times -
We're the ones who have to try
Though we know that time has wings -
We're the ones who have to fly
-Rush (Everyday Glory)

DON'T GO TO FAR -
The phosphorescent wave on a tropical sea
Is a cold fire
DON'T CROSS THE LINE -
The pattern of moonlight on the bedroom floor
Is a cold fire
DON'T LET ME DOWN -
The flame at the heart of a pawnbroker's diamond
Is a cold fire
DON'T BREAK THE SPELL -
The look in your eyes as you head for the door
Is a cold fire

Love is blind if you are gentle
Love can turn to a long, cold burn
-Rush (Cold Fire)

Where would you rather be?
Anywhere but here
When will the time be right?
Anytime but now
-Rush (Double Agent)

Wilderness of mirrors
Streets of cold desire
My precious sense of honor
Just a shield of rusty wire
I hold against the chaos -
And the cross of holy fire

Wilderness of mirrors
So easy to deceive
My precious sense of rightness
Is sometimes so naïve
So that which I imagine
Is that which I believe
-Rush (Double Agent)

Love is born with lightning bolts
Electro-magnetic force
Burning skin and fireworks
A storm on a raging course
-Rush (The Speed Of Love)

Love is born with solar flares
From two magnetic poles
It moves toward a higher place
Where two halves make two wholes
-Rush (The Speed Of Love)

At the speed of love
A radiance that travels
At the speed of love
My heart goes out to you
-Rush (The Speed Of Love)

For you and me--We hold these truths to be self-evident
For you and me--We'd elect each other president
For you and me--We might agree
But that's just us

Reaching for the alien shore
-Rush (Alien Shore)

Some need to pray at the sun at high noon
Some need to howl and the midwinter moon
Reborn and baptized in a moment of grace
We just need a break -
From the headlong race

ahh yes to yes to ahh ahh to yes
why the sun why the sun
-Rush (Between Sun And Moon)

Hero - not the handsome actor
Who plays a hero's role
Hero - not the glamor girl
Who'd love to sell her soul
If anybody's buying
NOBODY'S HERO
-Rush (Nobody's Hero)

It is the fire that lights itself
But it burns with a restless flame
The arrow on a moving target
The archer must be sure of his aim
-Rush (Cut To The Chase)

It is the rocket that ignites itself
And launches its way to the stars
A driver on a busy freeway
Racing the oblivious cars
-Rush (Cut To The Chase)

Young enough not to care too much
About the way things used to be
I'm young enough to remember the future -
The past has no claim on me

I'm old enough not to care too much
About what you think of me
But I'm young enough to remember the future
And the way things ought to be
-Rush (Cut To The Chase)

Each time we bathe our reactions
In artificial light
Each time we alter the focus
To make the wrong move seem right

You get so used to deception
You make yourself a nervous wreck
You get so used to surrender
Running back to cover your neck
-Rush (Stick It Out)

My counterpart - my foolish heart
A man must learn to rule his tender part
A warming trend - a gentle friend
A man must build a fortress to defend

A secret face - a touch of grace
A man must learn to give a little space
A peaceful state - a submissive trait
A man must learn to gently dominate
-Rush (Animate)

THE ODDS GET EVEN - You name the game
THE ODDS GET EVEN - The stakes are the same
YOU BET YOUR LIFE
-Rush (You Bet Your Life)

Time is a spiral - Space is a curve
I know you get dizzy, but try not to lose your nerve
Life is a diamond you turn into dust
Waiting for rescue, and I know that you just
Don't get it
You just don't get it
-Rush (Neurotica)

So many different connections
Our separate paths might have made
With every door we opened
Every game we played

Somehow we find each other
Through all that masquerade
Somehow we found each other
Somehow we have stayed
In a state of grace
-Rush (Ghost Of A Chance)

Do we have to be forgiving at last?
What else can we do?
Do we have to say goodbye to the past?
Yes, I guess we do
-Rush (Heresy)

Wheel goes round, landing on a twist of faith
Taking your chances you'll have the right answers
When the final judgment begins

Wheel goes round, landing on a leap of fate
Life redirected in ways unexpected
Sometimes the odd number wins
The way the big wheel spins
-Rush (The Big Wheel)

You get all squeezed up inside
Like the days were carved in stone
You get all wired up inside
And it's bad to be alone

You can go out, you can take a ride
And when you get out on your own
You get all smoothed out inside
And it's good to be alone
Turn it up
-Rush (Face Up)

We go out in the world and take our chances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That's the way lady luck dances
Roll the bones
-Rush (Roll The Bones)

Why are we here?
Because we're here
Roll the bones
Why does it happen?
Because it happens
Roll the bones
-Rush (Roll The Bones)

If we burn our wings
Flying to close to the sun
If the moment of glory
Is over before it's begun
If the dream is won -
Though everything is lost
We will pay the price,
But we will not count the cost
-Rush (Bravado)

When the dust has cleared
And victory denied
A summit too lofty
River a little too wide
If we keep our pride -
Though paradise is lost
We will pay the price,
But we will not count the cost
-Rush (Bravado)

And if the music stops
There's only the sound of the rain
All the hope and glory
All the sacrifice in vain
If love remains
Though everything is lost
We will pay the price,
But we will not count the cost
-Rush (Bravado)

Time is a gypsy caravan
Steals away in the night
To leave you stranded in Dreamland
Distance is a long-range filter
Memory a flickering light
Left behind in the heartland
-Rush (Dreamline)

WHEN WE ARE YOUNG
WANDERING THE FACE OF THE EARTH
WONDERING WHAT ARE DREAMS MIGHT BE WORTH
LEARNING THAT WE'RE ONLY IMMORTAL -
FOR A LIMITED TIME
-Rush (Dreamline)

play of light
a photograph
the way I used to be
some half-forgotten stranger
doesn't mean that much to me
-Rush (Available Light)

trick of light
moving picture
moments caught in flight
make the shadows darker
or the colors shine too bright
-Rush (Available Light)

All four winds together
Can't bring the world to me
Shadows hide the play of light
So much I want to see
Chase the light around the world
I want to look at life - In the available light

I'll go with the wind
I'll stand in the light
-Rush (Available Light)

I feel my spirit resist
But I open up my fist
Lay hand over hand over
Hand over fist
-Rush (Hand Over Fist)

Now's the time to turn the tide
Now's the time to fight
Let us not go gently
To the endless winter night
Now's the time to make the time
While hope is still in sight
Let us not go gently
To the endless winter night
-Rush (Red Tide)

There is no safe seat at the feast
Take your best stabs at the beast
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin
-Rush (Anagram (for Mongo))

Rose is a rose of splendor
posed to respond in the end
lonely things like nights,
I find, end finer with a friend
-Rush (Anagram (for Mongo))

hit you in a soft place
a melody so sweet
a strong and simple beat
that you can dance to
-Rush (Superconductor)

hit you in a soft place
with sentimental ease
they know the fantasies
that you romance to
-Rush (Superconductor)

I'm not one to believe in magic
But I sometimes have a second-sight
I'm not one with a sense of proportion
When my heart still changes overnight
-Rush (Presto)

the evening plane rises up from the runway
over constellations of light
I look down into a million houses
and wonder what you're doing tonight
-Rush (Presto)

I had a dream of a winter garden
a midnight rendezvous
silver, blue, and frozen silence
what a fool I was for you
-Rush (Presto)

I'm not one to believe in magic
Though my memory has a second-sight
I'm not one to go pointing my finger
When I radiate more heat than light
-Rush (Presto)

don't ask me
I'm just improvising
my illusion of careless flight
can't you see
my temperature's rising
I radiate more heat than light

don't ask me
I'm just sympathizing
my illusion's a harmless flight
can't you see
my temperature's rising
I radiate more heat than light
-Rush (Presto)

I've stood upon my mountaintop
and shouted at the sky
walked above the pavement
with my senses amplified
- I get this feeling
-Rush (Scars)

all my nerves are naked wires
tender to the touch
sometimes super-sensitive
but who can care to much?
- I get this feeling
-Rush (Scars)

Scars of pleasure
Scars of pain
Atmospheric changes
Make them sensitive again
-Rush (Scars)

each emotional injury
leaves behind its mark
sometimes they come tumbling out
like shadows in the dark
- I get these feelings
-Rush (Scars)

snow falls deep around my house
and holds the winter light
I've heard the lions hunting
In the Serengeti night
- I get this feeling
-Rush (Scars)

Pleasure leaves a fingerprint
As surely as mortal pain
In memories they resonate
And echo back again
-Rush (Scars)

all puffed up with vanity
we see what we want to see
to the beautiful and the wise
the mirror always lies
-Rush (War Paint)

all puffed up with vanity
we see what we want to see
to the powerful and the wise
the mirror always lies
-Rush (War Paint)

boys and girls together
mistake conceit for pride
--ambition for illusion
--dreams for self-delusion
girls and boys together
see what it is we lack
boys and girls together
let's paint the mirror black
paint it black
-Rush (War Paint)

static on your frequency
electrical storm in your veins
raging at unreachable glory
straining at invisible chains

and now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
can't face life on a razor's edge
nothing what you thought it would be
-Rush (The Pass)

All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
Turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razor's edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the door on me
-Rush (The Pass)

someone set a bad example
made surrender seem all right
the act of a noble warrior
who lost the will to fight

and now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
done with life on a razor's edge
nothing's what you thought it would be
-Rush (The Pass)

no hero in your tragedy
no daring in your escape
no salutes for your surrender
nothing noble in your fate
Christ, what have you done
-Rush (The Pass)

energy is contagious
enthusiasm spreads
tides respond to lunar gravitation
everything turns in synchronous relation
-Rush (Chain Lightning)

laughter is infectious
excitement goes to my head
winds are stirred by planets in rotation
sparks ignite and spread new information
-Rush (Chain Lightning)

dreams are sometimes catching
desire goes to go my head
love responds to your invitation
love responds to the imagination

respond, vibrate, feed back, resonate
-Rush (Chain Lightning)

sun dogs fire on the horizon
meteor rain stars across the night
this moment may be brief
but it can be so bright
reflected in another source of light
when the moment dies
the spark still flies
reflected in another pair of eyes
-Rush (Chain Lightning)

you can twist perceptions
reality won't budge
you can raise objections
I will be the judge
and the jury
-Rush (Show Don't Tell)

WHEN SOMETHING BROKE THE SURFACE
JUST TO SEE THE STARRY DOME -
WE STILL FEEL THAT RELATION
WHEN THE WATER TAKES US HOME
IN THE FLYING SPRAY OF THE OCEAN
THE WATER TAKES YOU HOME -
-Rush (High Water)

WHEN SOMETHING LEFT THE OCEAN
TO CRAWL HIGH ABOVE THE FOAM -
WE STILL FEEL THE ELATION
WHEN THE WATER TAKES US HOME
IN A DRIVING RAIN OF REDEMPTION
THE WATER TAKES ME HOME...
-Rush (High Water)

HIGH ON THE SACRED MOUNTAIN
UP THE SEVEN THOUSAND STAIRS
IN THE GOLDEN LIGHT OF AUTUMN
THERE WAS MAGIC IN THE AIR

CLOUDS SURROUNDED THE SUMMIT
THE WIND BLEW STRONG AND COLD
AMONG THE SILENT TEMPLES
AND THE WRITINGS CARVED IN GOLD
SOMEWHERE IN MY INSTINCTS
THE PRIMITIVE TOOK HOLD...
-Rush (Tai Shan)

To live between a rock
And a hard place.
In between time,
Cruising in prime time
Soaking up the cathode rays.
-Rush (Between The Wheels)

You know how that rabbit feels
Going under your speeding wheels.
Bright images flashing by
Like windshields towards a fly.
Frozen in that fatal climb
But the wheels of time
Just pass you by...
-Rush (Between The Wheels)

It's the colour of your heartbeat,
A rising summer sun.
The battle lost or won.
The flash to fashion
The pulse to passion
Feels red.
Inside my head.
And truth is often better
Left unsaid.
I said red, red.
I thinking about the overhead,
The underfed.
Couldn't we talk about something else instead?
-Rush (Red Lenses)

And the mercury is rising,
Barometer starts to fall.
You know it gets to us all.
The pain that is learning
And the rain that is burning
Feel red.
Still, go ahead.
You see black and white
And I see red,
Red...
(Not blue).
-Rush (Red Lenses)

Anger got bare knuckles,
Anger play the fool,
Anger wear a crown of thorns.
Reverse the golden rule
Then you learn the lesson
That it's tough to be so cool.
-Rush (Kid Gloves)

1-0-0-1-0-0-1
S.O.S
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
In distress
1-0-0-1-0-0
-Rush (The Body Electric)

To you, is it movement or is it action?
Is it contact or just reaction?
And you, revolution or just resistance?
Is it living, or just existence?
Yeah you, it takes a little more persistence
To get up and go the distance...
-Rush (The Enemy Within)

I'm not giving in
To security under pressure.
I'