favorite lines from songs.

[L. Wince]

I stand atop a spiral stair, and oracle confronts me there. He leads me on lightyears away through astral nights, galactic days. I see the works of gifted hands that grace this strage and wonderous land. I see the hand of man arise with hungry mind and open eyes.

[tk4207]

All of Analog Kid

 

"Mystic rhythms

Under city lights

Or a canopy of stars

We feel the powers and wonder what they are"

 

"Run with wind and weather

To the music of the sea

All four winds together

Can't bring the world to me

Chase the wind around the world

I want to look at life

In the available light"

 

And the other one is already in my sig

[psionic11]

I wasn't walking on water, I was standing on a reef.

[psionic11]

QUOTE (tk4207 @ Jul 24 2010, 10:21 PM)

All of Analog Kid "Mystic rhythms Under city lights Or a canopy of stars We feel the powers and wonder what they are" "Run with wind and weather To the music of the sea All four winds together Can't bring the world to me Chase the wind around the world I want to look at life In the available light" And the other one is already in my sig

Props to Cut to the Chase, great song. The vocal harmonies are just a bit hard to swallow; otherwise, very solid song.

[TullSkull]

Had to add this one...

 

 

The world weighs on my shoulders

But what am I to do?

You sometimes drive me crazy

But I worry about you

 

I know it makes no difference

To what you're going through

But I see the tip of the iceberg

And I worry about you...

 

 

and too tk4207 got some favs there

[sean_d]

"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"

 

 

[tkdryan]

driven on without a moment to spend, to pass an evening with a drink and a friend

[liddybuck01]

"different eyes see different things, different hearts beat on different strings"

 

love that.

[neil#2]

The last line from Everyday Glory is a great one. One of the best closers to a Rush album, IMO.

 

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

[Snyder80]

Here are a few that never fail to give me chills or a lump in my throat.

 

Well weathered leather, hot metal and oil, the scented country air.

Sunlight on chrome, the blur of the landscape, every nerve aware.

 

-Red Barchetta

 

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.

 

-Earthshine

 

It's not as if this barricade, blocks the only road

It's not as if you're all alone, in wanting to explode.

Someone set a bad example, made surrender seem all right

The act of a noble warrior, who lost the will to fight.

 

-The Pass

 

Begin the day with a friendly voice, a companion unobstrusive

Plays that song that's so elusive and the magic music makes your morning mood.

 

-The Spirit of Radio

 

Any escape might help to smooth, the unattractive truth

But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.

 

-Subdivisions

 

Confused alarms of struggle and fight, the Earth is drained of color

By the flashes of artillery light, no one gets to their heaven without a fight

Battle flags are flown at the feet of a God unknown, no one gets to their heaven, heaven.

 

-Armor & Sword.

[mong82191]

Mine is easily the one line repeatedly said in Caravan

 

"I can't stop thinking big"

 

Cause my dream is the Air Force and I'm damn close to it.

[sgbam42]

"I will chose a path that's clear. I will chose FREEWILL."

 

"One likes to bealive in the freedom of music. But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusions of integrate."

 

All of 2112 is my favorite line.

 

 

[Mara]

From Prime Mover:

 

From the point of conception

To the moment of Truth

At the point of surrender

To the burden of proof

 

From the point of ignition

To the final drive

The point of the journey is not to arrive

 

 

Emotion Detector:

 

Right to the heart of the matter

Right to the beautiful part

Illusions are painfully shattered

Right where discovery starts

 

 

 

Many, many, MANY more. Too many to list. These were just the first ones that came to mind.

[Mystic Slipperman]

I'd quote a lot of what has already been said, but instead just add a few not yet mentioned (I could be wrong):

 

"Summer's going fast; nights growing colder

Children growing up; old friends growing older

Freeze this moment a little bit longer

Make each sensation a little bit stronger

Experience slips away

The innocence slips away..."

 

 

"Celebrate the moment as it turns into one more.."

 

 

"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"

 

"We are strangers to each other

Each one's life a novel no one else as read

Even joined in bonds of love

we're linked to one another by such slender threads"

 

 

many many more. Props to the end of "Everyday Glory" and the last lines of "Analog Kid".

[Lost In Xanadu]

My favorite verse has always been:

 

"Quick to judge,

Quick to anger,

Slow to understand

Ignorance and prejudice

And fear walk hand in hand"

 

 

 

Close second is:

 

"They shoot without shame

In the name of a piece of dirt

For a change of accent

Or the color of your shirt

Better the pride that resides

In a citizen of the world

Than the pride that divides

When a colorful rag is unfurled"

[Khan]

We can walk our road together

If our goals are all the same

We can run alone and free

If we pursue a different aim

 

Let the truth of love be lighted

Let the love of truth shine clear

Sensibility

Armed with sense and liberty

With the Heart and Mind united

In a single perfect sphere

[hope67]

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

-The Enemy Within

 

Some are born to move the world

To live their fantasies

But most of us just dream about

The things we'd like to be

Sadder still to watch it die

Than never to have known it

For you, the blind who once could see

The bell tolls for thee...

-Losing It

 

 

 

If the dream is won

Though everything is lost

We will pay the price

But we will not count the cost

-Bravado

 

 

[librarian]

You can tell me that I've got no class,

Look around, you'll see whose laughing last...

[djtess]

QUOTE (tkdryan @ Jul 25 2010, 07:07 PM)

driven on without a moment to spend, to pass an evening with a drink and a friend

You posted my favorite one before I could.

[Flight YYZ]

"Mystic rythyms, capture my thoughts, carry them away...

nature seems to spin a supernatural way,

mystic rythyms, under northern lights, or a canopy of stars...."

 

-MYSTIC RYTHYMS

 

 

"We are young,

wandering the face of the earth,

wondering what our dreams might be worth,

learning that we're only immortal,

for a limited time."

 

-DREAMLINE

 

 

"You can do a lot in a lifetime,

if you don't run out too fast.

You can make the most of the distance,

first you need endurance,

first you've gotta last.

 

-MARATHON

 

 

"Living in the fish-eyed lense,

but in the camera eye,

I have no heart to lie,

I can't pretend a stranger is a long-awaited friend..."

 

-LIMELIGHT

 

 

and so many more......

[TullSkull]

~ I believe in what I see... I believe in what I hear.... I believe that what I'm feeling.... Changes how the World appears.... ~

[Slaine mac Roth]

"You can tell me that I've got no class

Look around, let's see who's laughing last

Don't give me speeches 'cos they're oh so droll

Leave me along let me rock and roll"

 

"We will pay the price

But we will not count the cost."

 

"My angels and demons at war."

 

"My heart will lie beside you

And my wandering body grieves."

 

"People buy the tings they want

And borrow for a little more."

 

"Phosphorescent wave on a tropical beach..."

 

"too late for debate, too bad to ignore

quiet rebellion leads to open war"

 

"The joy and pain that we receive

Each comes with its own cost

The price of what we're winning

Is the same as what we've lost"

 

"Silence all the songbirds

Stilled by the killing frost

Forests burn to ashes

Everything is lost"

 

"Time will do its healing

You've got to let it go"

 

And, finally, one that will no doubt make a lot of people here cringe (but I just think its a great lyric:

 

"he and she are in the house

But there's only me at home."

 

 

 

[librarian]

The whole wide world

An endless universe

Yet we keep looking through

The eyeglass in reverse

Don't feed the people

But we feed the machines

Can't really feel

What international means

In different circles, we keep holding our ground

In different circles, we keep spinning round and round

 

Territories -

 

[Transylvania Twist]

As with so many other folks there are a multitude of lyrics that are favorites with different meanings for different things in life. This is one of my all-time favorites:

 

So much poison in power, the principles get left out

So much mind on the matter, the spirit gets forgotten about

Like a righteous inspiration overlooked in haste

Like a teardrop in the ocean, a diamond in the waste

Some world-views are spacious

And some are merely spaced

 

- Grand Designs

[ILSnwdog]

"One likes to believe

In the freedom of music,

But glittering prizes

And endless compromises

Shatter the illusion

Of integrity."

 

I like that one so much, I put it in my signature.

 

"Begging hands and bleeding hearts will

Only cry out for more"

 

Ain't that the truth.

 

"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 you live is your own story"

 

" strip away the old debris

That hides a shining car.

A brilliant red Barchetta

From a better, vanished time.

I fire up the willing engine,

Responding with a roar.

Tires spitting gravel,

I commit my weekly crime..."

 

"Set off on a night-sea journey

Without memory or desire

Drifting through lost latitudes

With no compass and no chart

 

Flying through hallucination

Distant voices, signals fire

Lighting up my unconscious

And the secret places of the heart

 

Dream - Temporary madness

Dream - A voice in the wilderness

Dream - Unconscious revelations

The morning says, the answer is yes"

 

I could go on and on...but those are my the best of the best in my book.