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My attempt at a new thread...

 

What is your favorite verse from any Rush song? I've found that many of the more obscure tracks have some stellar lyrics behind them.

 

One of my favorite verses comes from 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"

 

Any others? Come on, you know you have a fav...

 

-John

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And if the music stops

There's only the sound of the rain

All the hope and glory

All the sacrifice in vain

(And) If love remains

Though everything is lost

We will pay the price

But we will not count the cost

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I have a lot, but one that kind of expresses the type of person I am and the kind of relationships I have had is:

 

Closed for my protection

Open to your scorn

Between these two directions

My heart is sometimes torn

 

I lie awake with my secrets

Spinning around my head

Something that somehow escaped me

Something you shouldn't have said

I was looking out the window

I should have looked at your face instead.

 

I've contemplated using that one in a sig line.

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And my favorite is:

"You can do a lot in a lifetime

If you don't burn out too fast.

You can make the most of the distance

First you need endurance

First you've got to last"

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One of mine is....

 

One likes to believe in the freedom of music

But glittering prizes and endless compromises

Shatter the illusion of integrity

Yeah!

 

 

Not for our boys though 2.gif

 

I love the way Geddy says yeah cool.gif

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Favorite verse eh??

 

Mine would be this:

 

Follow men's eyes as they look to the sky; the shifting shafts of shining weave the fabric of their dreams

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Favorite verse on a Rush song...... there are actually 2 that stick in my mind more then any other verse they have done, and I cannot and will not decide which.

 

To you - is it movement or is it action?

It is 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

 

---

 

Too many hands on my time

Too many feelings -

Too many things on my mind

When I leave I don't know

What I'm hoping to find

When I leave I don't know

What I'm leaving behind...

 

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For me this is the never ending verse in my head!

 

What happened to our innocence-

Did it go out of style?

Along with our naivete'-

No longer a child

Different eyes see different things

Different hearts beat on different strings

But there are times

For you and me

When all such things agree...

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truth is afterall a moving target, hairs to split, and pieces that don't fit, how can anybody be elightened, truth is afterall so poorly lit

 

---or----

 

each of us, a cell of awareness, imperfect, and incomplete, genetic blends, with uncertain ends, on a fortune hunt thats far to fleet

 

 

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Wow, it's so cool to see how we each admire such a veriety of Rush's material. The "Red Barchetta" passage invisibleairwaves cited, definitely a masterpiece. And Jag2112's "Everyday Glory," definitely one of my favorites too. sfuentes, I have to say your "Best I Can" selection is certainly... ineteresting! All your choices are awesome, and depending on my mood on a given day, there's bound to be one Rush song that speaks directly to me.

 

For my own two cents, though, I'll quote Rush's "Resist":

 

You can surrender

Without a prayer

But never really pray

Pray without surrender

 

You can fight

Without every winning

But never ever win

Without a fight

 

(And of course the "RiR" version is the ultimate.)

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"Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea......."

 

"Wave after wave will flow with the tide

And bury the world as it does

Tide after tide will flow and recede

Leaving life to go on as it was."

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from Time Stand Still:

 

Summers going fast-

Nights growing colder

Children growing up-

Old friends growing older

 

Experience slips away...

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Hello.

I like this one:

 

"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"

 

A trink36.gif for the one who can guess the song.

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QUOTE (Mereas @ Apr 1 2005, 02:48 PM)
Hello.
I like this one:

"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"

A trink36.gif for the one who can guess the song.

Entre Nous! I love that song. Great guitar solo.

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"we will pay the price but we will not count the cost"

 

"Quick to judge, Quick to anger, slow to understand

Ignorance and prejudice.and fear walk hand in hand"

 

ALOT more that I cant remember oh and

 

"Our first stop is in Bogota

To check Colombian fields

The natives smile and pass along

A sample of their yield"

 

lol

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Who can forget this piece of poetry?

 

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.

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