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1996 - "Victor" - Alex Lifeson


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1. Don't Care (4:04)

2. Promise (5:44)

3. Start Today (3:48)

4. Mr. X (2:21)

5. At The End (6:07)

6. Sending Out A Warning (4:11)

7. Shut Up Shuttin' Up (4:02)

8. Strip And Go Naked (3:57)

9. The Big Dance (4:14)

10. Victor (6:25)

11. I Am The Spirit (5:31)

 

 

Don't Care

 

Shut up and turn off the light

I'll take you deep right through the night

Just leave before you're in my sight

'Cause I don't need another fight

And I don't need your sympathy

You'll get no tender love from me

Kneel before me on your knee

Do it hard- make me free

Do it hard- make me free

Do it- make me free

Do it hard- make me free

 

Don't want your pity

Don't want your care

Don't care for giving

Don't care for fair

Don't want your kindness

Don't want your heart

Don't care for wanting

Don't care for smart

 

I'll come to you from behind

You know my touch will not be kind

You'll feel my loveless power bind

No feelings here that you can find

Between your legs I will lay

On your back you better stay

I'm gonna f**k you night and day

Do it hard- make me pay

Do it hard- make me pay

Do it hard- make me pay

Do it hard- make me pay

Do it hard

 

Don't want your pity

Don't want your care

Don't care for giving

Don't care for fair

Don't want your kindness

Don't want your heart

Don't care for wanting

Don't care for smart

 

I don't need your sympathy

You'll get no tender love from me

Just kneel before me on your knee

Do it hard- make me free

Do it hard- make me free

Do it hard- please make me free

 

 

Promise

 

One more glass

A million more days

One more smoke

Release me from my ways

 

Break the mold

Break your back

Break the promise you made

Seek the world now

Don't look back

Make your promise today

Leave the safety

Leave this life

Leave before it's too late

It's your only chance

Don't pretend romance

Keep the new promise you made

 

What if I wasn't so scared?

Why can't I be brave?

I've forgotten all that we've shared

You can't give me what I crave

 

One more glass

Take another pill

One more day

I feel like I could kill

 

What if you let me walk away?

You think it's me who needs to be saved

Your life a tragic, self-centered play

You never gave me what I craved

 

What I want

You can never give

What you want

My dead life to live

 

Break the mold

Break your back

Break the promise you made

Seek the world now

Don't look back

Make your promise today

Leave the safety

Leave this life

Leave before it's too late

It's your only chance

Don't pretend romance

Keep the new promise you made

 

Break the mold

Break your back

Break the promise you made

Leave the safety

Leave this life

Leave before it's too late

Seek the world now

Don't look back

Make your promise today

 

KEEP THE PROMISE YOU MADE

KEEP THE PROMISE YOU MADE

 

 

Start Today

 

I need you to hold me tightly in your arms

I need you to show me if I might be wrong

I am pink and you are blue

Can I trust my whole life to you?

Just don't take me for a fool

When I need to depend on you

I am not your part-time job

What you get is what you are

 

You can hurt like no one can

You're such a child for such a man

You need strength, you need to take a stand

Just stop looking to me for a helping hand

When you?re ready I will be here

I can help you lose your fear

You better stand up on your feet

If you ever want to feel my heat

 

Clear your mind of those things gone by

You can't change the past, why even try

You can build upon all you've learned

You can start today

 

No one said it wouldn't be this hard

When you share, prepare to give a lot

Just remember when you look at me

You are you and I am me

When you're ready I will be here

I can help you lose your fear

You better stand up on your feet

If you ever want to feel my heat

 

Clear your mind of those things gone by

You can't change the past, why even try

Look ahead to those better days

Make the effort, it always pays

We can build upon all we've learned

We can start today

 

 

Mr. X

Instrumental

 

 

At The End

 

He opens the books-looks at the scenes from yesterday

How they laughed and loved and lived before they grew old and grey

Now he sits alone in his room, and the clock ticks away

 

Together they enjoyed all life's beauty and all its fears

The lonely cry of his soul falls only on his ears

Each page's photo marked with the stain of his tears

 

He didn't know what to do

He didn't know what might come

Nothing was all that was left to him

Nothing was left when she was gone

 

The heart has a memory so strong

It remembers every right and every wrong

On those pages of his long, lonely life

He can only see his wife

He said 'Pluck out my eyes'

He said 'Plug up my ears'

He said 'Silence my tongue'

He said 'Take away my empty years'

 

One last wish

To see her face

One last breath

He's calling out to death

One last look up at the sun

As he picks up the gun

As he steadies the gun

As he finally aims the gun

 

 

Sending Out A Warning

 

Tender is the nerve that leads straight to his heart

Sender sends the spit that streams down his face

Want and need are just two useless words

The third, if she knew it, would be grace

Her grip is tight as a vice-smothers like a killer, stealing

someone's life

His guilt controls his every move-nothing seems to work, what's

he got to prove

Their war was just like any war-all the pain for nothing, double

bladed sword

 

Sending out a warning

Sending out a warning

He's on the edge, everything is up or down

She's in his face, he feels like he may drown

Relentless is the scope of her revenge

She'll give then take then push him off the ledge

 

His guilt is tight as a vice-smothers like a killer, stealing

someone's life

Her grip controls his every move-nothing seems to work, what's

he got to prove

Their war was just like any war-all the pain for nothing, double

bladed sword

 

Sending out a warning

Sending out a warning

He's on the edge, everything is up or down

She's in his face, he feels like he may drown

Relentless is the scope of her revenge

She'll give then take then push him off the ledge

She's gone too far, he knows her subtle tricks

He's tried to hard, there are some things you can't fix

Cross too many lines, be prepared to pay the price

All the warmth you knew will forever turn to ice

 

Sending out a warning

Sending out a warning

 

 

Shut Up Shuttin' Up

 

Words: Charlene and Esther

 

I don't ask for much, I really don't. I just want him to put the seat down

 

What are you talking about 'you don't ask for much'? You ask for everything!

 

Well, I just want him to put the seat down when he goes to the bathroom at night.

I go in there and I sit down and it's cold and wet and there's more hair on his feet then on his head!

 

No, I like the hairs on the floor!

 

What are they doing?

 

Oh, there's a shag carpet everyday and this above the toilet. What are they so tall that they have to lean over? Is it that heavy?

 

It's so heavy

 

Oh my god their only good for one thing and we know what that is...

 

What is that?

 

Don't tell me

 

I keep forgetting

 

Just play the guitar

 

 

He's still talking to me about that vacation we took, he still wants the details.

 

Come on!

 

Like, I can't take it anymore. What am I suppose to do?

 

Did you throw away the pictures?

 

Oh, those pictures! If he saw those pictures, he'd have a heart attack!

 

Those guys were gorgeous

 

Oh were they ever, but he wants to know, 'where did you go, did you go to a bar, did you dance close, did you dance far?'

 

I know, 'what were you wearing?'

 

Oh my god, 'were they looking at you. who danced with you, did they come home with you? who drove you home? Were they younger then me, older then me, did they treat you better then me?'

 

But you know what?

 

Oh god it was awful!

 

I always tell him, 'honey, just shut up and play the guitar!'

 

 

Has he asked you to play a hooker?

 

Ah... I can't believe you're saying that, he does that to me all the time! All the time

 

They're all the same, it's sickening! Hookers, lipstick, big hair, makeup, the sluty outfits, mascara, false eye-lashes. The thing with the false eye-lashes! Does he want you to shave?

 

The whole thing, everything, dye things

 

Oh my, their all the same, I'm so sick of it. We're different, women are so different

 

The only thing is, we wouldn't get paid for it

 

Oh god, well, they pay for it okay

 

In the long run?

Oh, in the short run because they just have to play the guitar!

 

 

Do you find that he always want's attention, it's (constantly) always him him him him him ?

 

Constant attention

 

I can't take it, he comes home, and he wants me to caress him and tell him how great he is and this and this

 

Shut Up!

 

I love you, I love you, you're the best, there is no one else

 

Like really, how many time am I suppose to tell him that? All I want to do is relax, have a nice little drink

 

Shut Up!

 

Give him a little hug, but it always leads to something else

 

Yea, you can't just hug, you have to go on and on and then the comes out

 

It always turns sexual

 

Just Shut Up!

 

unbelievable it just goes on and on and on

 

Just Shut Up Shuttin' Up!

 

Their only good for one thing, just play the guitar!

 

SHUT UP! AH, JUST SHUT UP! MAN! SHUT UP SHUTTIN' UP! SHUT UP, SHUT, SHUT, SHUT IT, SHUT IT ALL UP. SHUT UP... SHUTTIN' UP!

 

 

Strip And Go Naked

 

Instrumental

 

 

The Big Dance

 

I've seen so many places, and always left my mark

I've kissed so many faces, lips smooth, just like a shark

I have no friends, I hope that's understood

I take what I can take, when the taking's good

It's not for love, but I'll gladly take your money

I can pretend to be so sad or funny

You'll just love the way I move when I dance

My young hips, they know how to entrance

Nevermind him, he's not here now

It's really not my problem, anyhow

 

An angel of love to you is what I'll appear

Your lonely ache, I can make, disappear

Yes, take me deep inside so I can heal your pain

No angel of love takes another man's gain

 

You want to keep me held inside your cage

You best remember, you're twice my age

You think I'll want you with me for evermore

It's only been two weeks, and you're such a bore

I can see you're new to this, you don't know the rules

You're just another one in the long line of fools

Can you be happy for my moment in your life

It doesn't bother you you're someone else's wife

 

An angel of love is what I may appear

What I really am is really not so clear

I don't live for love, you sticky bitch

All I care about is if you're rich

You decide if you still want to play this game

The price to you for this is nothing will ever be the same

 

 

Victor

 

Victor was a little baby into this world he came

His father took him on his knee and said 'Don't dishonor the family name.'

Victor looked up at his father-looked up with big brown eyes:

His father said; 'Victor my only son, don't you ever tell lies.'

 

It was a frosty December, it wasn't the season for fruits

His father fell dead of heart disease while lacing up his boots

It was a frosty December when into his grave he sank;

His uncle found Victor a post as cashier at the Midland Counties Bank.

 

It was a frosty December Victor was only eighteen

But his figures were straight and his margins straight and his cuffs were always clean

He took a room at the Peveril, a respectable boarding-house;

And Time watched Victor day after day as a cat will watch a mouse

Victor went up to his bedroom, set the alarm bell

Climbed into bed, took his Bible and read of what happened to Jezebel.

 

It was the first of April, Anna to the Peveril came

Her eyes, her lips, her breasts, her hips and her smile set men aflame

It was the second of April she was wearing a coat of fur;

Victor met her upon the stairs and he fell in love with her

 

The first time he made his proposal, she laughed, said 'I'll never wed'

The second time there was a pause, then she smiled and shook her head

Anna looked into the mirror, pouted and gave a frown

Said; 'Victor's as dull as a wet afternoon but I've got to settle down.'

The third time he made his proposal, as they walked by the Reservoir

She gave him a kiss like a blow to the head and said, 'You are my heart's desire.'

They were married early in August, she said; 'Kiss me, you funny boy.'

Victor took her in his arms and said: 'Oh my Helen of Troy.'

 

The clerks were talking of Anna, the door was just ajar:

One said, 'Poor old Victor, but where ignorance is bliss, etcetera.'

Victor looked up at the sunset as he stood there all alone;

Cried: 'Are you in Heaven, Father?', but the sky said 'Address not known.'

 

Victor looked up at the mountains, the mountains all covered with snow:

Cried: 'Are you pleased with me Father?' and the answer came back, No

Victor came to the forest, cried; 'Father, will she ever be true?'

And the oaks and the beeches shook their heads and they answered: 'Not to you.'

Victor came to the meadow where the wind went sweeping by:

Cried: 'O Father, I love her so.' But the wind said: 'She must die.'

Victor cam to the river running so deep and so still:

Crying 'O Father, what shall I do?' and the river answered: 'Kill.'

 

Anna was sitting at table, drawing cards from a pack:

Anna was sitting at table waiting for her husband to come back.

Victor stood in the doorway, he didn't utter a word

She said: 'What's the matter, honey?' he behaved like he hadn't heard

There was a voice in his left ear, there was a voice in his right

There was a voice at the base of this skull saying: 'She must die tonight.'

Victor picked up a carving-knife, his features were set and drawn

Said 'Anna, it would have been better for you if you had not been born.'

 

Anna jumped up from the table, Anna started to scream

But Victor came slowly after her like a horror in a dream

She dodged behind the sofa, she tore down a curtain rod

But Victor came slowly after her, said 'Prepare to meet thy God.'

 

He stood there above the body, he stood there holding the knife

And the blood ran down the stairs and sang: 'I am the Resurrection and the Life.'

They tapped Victor on the shoulder, they took him away in a van:

He sat as quite as a lump of moss saying: 'I am the Son of Man.'

 

Victor sat in the corner

Making a woman of clay

Saying: 'I am Alpha and Omega, I shall come to judge the earth one day.'

 

 

I Am The Spirit

 

I am the star-filled sky in winter

I am the starry-eyed who stares

I am the cold, grey rock of mountains

I am the one whole climbs those stairs

I am-the sea, so calm yet fearsome

I am-the one to seize the chance

I am-the air so pure yet foul

I am-the one who takes a stance

All you have is what there is

All there is, is what you make

All you make is all there is

All for your own sake

I am the building, tall and handsome

I am the builder, the one who cares

I am the painting on the canvas

I am the painter, the one who shares

I am-the trees, so strong and silent

I am-the earth, all life to give

I am-the sun, both lover and killer

I am-the child, through you, I live

I have a need for building on tomorrow

I have a need to begin today

I have no time for living some past sorrow

I just want to get on my way

I need to have strength in my conviction

I need to have the final say

I need to make sense in my selection

I just want to get on my way

You only have you

I only have me

You lonely with you

Me lonely with me

You can give it to me

I can take it from you

You'll always have it from me

We'll be always

I am the wind, both warm and freezing

I am the truth, not always fair

I am the clouds, static yet fleeting

I am the heart, a burden to bear

I am-the main for all the seasons

I am-the boy who never fears

I am-the woman who knows all the reasons

I am-the girl who sheds the tears

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