[kj] RE: best lyrics

[Rob Martin]

From: "peter.west410" <peter.west410 at ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [kj] RE: Rush debate & KJ top 5

"the latter certainly has the best lyrics ever written (IMHO).'

Can you upload the lyrics on to here?
    I would like to read "The best lyrics ever written"


Peter
You sound like you are sceptical and trying to test me.
Still, I've said my piece and I suppose I should try to justify what I said
so I'll try to find them on-line or scan them in.
That was easy - I did a Google search for 'rush lyrics (song name)'.
I've just included two tracks. If you are really interested, I'm sure you
can find the rest of them.
The first is probably my fave - one or two words in each line is made from
another part of the same line.
The patronising bit inside brackets is my addition - not on the album.

Rush
Anagram

There's a snake coming out of the darkness
Parade from paradise
End the need for Eden
Chase the dreams of merchandise

There is tic and toc in atomic
Leaders make a deal
The cosmic is largely comic
A con they couldn't conceal

There is no safe seat at the feast
Take your best stab at the beast
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Raise the art to resistance
Danger dare to be grand
Pride reduced to humble pie
Diamonds down to sand

Take heart from earth and weather
The brightness of new birth
Take heart from the harvest
Shave the harvest from the earth

Reasoning is partly insane
Image just an eyeless (i-less) game
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Miracles will have their claimers
More will bow to Rome
He and she are in the house
But there's only me at home

Rose is a rose of splendor
Posed to respond in the end
Lonely things like nights,
I find, end finer with a friend

I hear in the rate of her heart
A tear in the heat of the art

The night turns thin
The saint turns to sin



Here's the album title track - 'Presto'.

Words by Neil Peart, Music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

if I could wave my magic wand...

I am made from the dust of the stars
and the oceans flow in my veins
here I hide in the heart of the city
like a stranger coming out of the rain

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

if I could wave my magic wand
I'd make everything all right

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

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

I had a dream of the open water
I was swimming away out to sea
so deep I could never touch bottom
what a fool I used to be

if I could wave my magic wand
I'd set everybody free

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

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 illusions a harmless flight
can't you see
my temperature's rising
I radiate more heat than light

Regards

Rob Martin







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