GeddyRee Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 On a mission to find everyday glory, we cling to our beliefs.To protect our open secrets, we keep them under lock and key.Donning war paint, armor and sword; we defend our territories.False bravado is second nature; part of our chemistry. We expect something for nothing, neurotica to the extreme.Never daring to explore beyond our middletown dreams.The marathon has to stop at night, no available light to see.Yet as Didacts And Narpets, we hold on to this virtuality. Malignant Narcissism spreads like chain lightning.Half the world has the disease.We hide inside our subdivisionsuntil high water makes us flee. Stuck in limbo in the twilight zone,we stare at the big wheel.Not knowing if we’re losing it,or if what we see is real. The Manhattan project bore the weaponlike a mothers only son.The superconductor oblivious,to the damage he has done. We follow the big moneyreaching in hand over fist.The presentation of a Bacchus Plateau;too tempting to resist. I want to go the way the wind blows,watch the stars look down on me.If there’s a ghost of a chance I’ll take it,at the risk of heresy. I’m going on a headlong flightgonna fly by night.Will I roll the bones?You bet your life! Gonna stick it out.Cut to the chase.Regardless of the circumstances,I’m gonna wear my bravest face. I’m not getting any younger and I think I’m going bald.So like a modern day Tom Sawyer, it’s time to hit the road. I’m finding my way,doing the best I can.Making memories,gonna take a friend.I’m shedding my red lensesNow the future I can see.I’m going to meet my heroes when I get to YYZ I’m here again, and I need some love,won’t you be part of my epilogueWe’ll gain some scars, and shed some tears.countdown our lives in dog years.Don’t ignore the vital signs, because entre nous,what you’re doing, I want to do with you.We can dance to the mystic rhythms of Der Trommler, paint the world the color of right.Play games with time and motion and bathe in the limelight. I’m gonna write you an Anthem, a madrigal, an answer to Broon’s Bane…I’ll call on the spirt of radio, to take away your pain.We’ll share a sweet miracle; panacea, one little victory.We’ll keep working them angels overtime, until the next discovery. We can travel at the speed of love, and yet make time stand still.Say a farewell to kings and follow different strings because we’re driven by freewill. Share good news first, and leave the rest beneath, between and behind. Live life outside the camera eye, forget their grand designs. There’s no need to handle with kid gloves you’re not between the wheels.So carve away the stone. You ain’t got to be nobody’s hero. Ceiling unlimited; now’s the time to startto build a peaceable kingdom, closer to the heart. You may call me faithless, because I hold on to my sins.But that’s how it is that I defy; the enemy within. Face up on an alien shore I watched red tide hide between sun and moon.Saw a ghost rider chasing a vapor trail just because he was In the mood. I felt the rays from Cygnus X-1 and drank from the fountain of lamnethI watched the necromancer cast his spell and felt the halo effect. I marveled at the natural science around me, the sea, the sky, the trees.Emotion detector on overdrive. I could feel the whole worlds needs. The spindrift slapped me in the face, letting me know who was the prime moverand presto, I knew then that I had to choose between before and after.O’ Baterista You’ve inspired me to come out of the dark.To leave la villa strangiato and take a stroll through Lakeside park.To spend time in the garden and fill the larger bowl.To take the pass to Xanadu and seek the seven cities of gold.To find a passage to Bangkok and reach the summit of Tai’ Shan.To teach my son the Analog Kid about the Digital Man.To ask the question (where’s my thing?) To hope, to animate.To tell my foes I wish them well and then to turn the page. Clockwork Angels watch the working man, the wreckers and the anarchist.While the new world man and carnies; address the main monkey business.This is an overture, a nocturne, and my soliloquy.A far cry from the things that I was brought up to believe. Like the anagram for “addicts and parents” in this prose,You can jump upon the caravan, or leave that thing alone. Earthshine; An afterimage of life’s lessons; a cold fire that can burn and freeze.A secret touch, like a distant early warning, from an Oracle: The Dream. I’m a Cinderella Man from Rivendell born on Bastille DayIn the Temples of Syrinx room 2112 / Red Sector A.The body electric; out of the cradle, running at force tenI’ll keep following this dreamline, until I’m home again.With By-Tor and the Snow dog, my red barchetta, and my friends,where we can be together, for Armageddon, in the end.I’ll stand beside the totem, where I met Dionysus,and watch the grand finale; with no regrets.I’ll send one last test for echo; screaming “please now, show, don’t tell”Then I’ll follow Jacob’s ladder up to heaven? down to hell?The witch hunt will be over, the double agent exposed, and we’ll find out once and for all who was right with what they know. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRee Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 Thank you :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFarewellToHemispheres Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 I got roughly 179. Not sure if you were counting lyrics as well as I didn't know if "I was brought up to believe" was one. :) Am I right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedOfLove Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 How fun! This is what I came up with ... Actual song titles : 162 Intros and/or song "movements" : 13 Drum solos : 2 Grand Total :177 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liana Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Holy crap that is awesome! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animate Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 wow! Totes cool! First read through (with out looking at other replies), i picked out 170- but was not consistent either counting parts of songs (like from 2112 or TFOL) or drum or guitar concert pieces as individual titles and sort of counted some but maybe not others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost In Xanadu Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I found like 10... maybe 11. I have a short attention sp... ooh something shiny. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusGal Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 I really like your composition. Well done. :ebert: I'll look for song names when I have some more time (crazy busy lately). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus 2112 Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 161 songs titles 11 intros/section and 2 solos. Grand total of 174 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animate Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 I found like 10... maybe 11. I have a short attention sp... ooh something shiny. Squirrel! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBytor Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 my new favorite post on the whole internet :ebert: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yyz211282 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Just saw this! F*ckin awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Total of 168... Not going to try and categorize them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yyz211282 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 170 exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocinanteX-1 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 When I read that poem...daaaaaamn... I"ll go change my pants now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super25Smasher Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) This is great. Edited March 6, 2015 by Super25Smasher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddy Lee Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 This is damn cool...i counted a hundred seventy something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mother of all machines Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 175? Maybe 177? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geminiman112 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I found 80 song titles. It's a really nice poem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudioStephen Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I want to make this a song. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super25Smasher Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I want to make this a song. :o Let's do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushianRoulette Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 can we come up with a name for this? Please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavia2112 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Did you manage to get every single Rush song title into that poem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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