'I lie awake, staring out at the bleakness of Megadon. City and sky become one, merging into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. The Twin Moo...
2112 / 2112

   When they turn the pages of history When these days have passed long ago Will they read of us with sadness For the seeds that we let grow? We turned o...
A Farewell To Kings / A Farewell To Kings

   Our first stop is in Bogota To check Colombian fields The natives smile and pass along A sample of their yield Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams Golden Acapu...
Exit ...Stage Left / A Passage To Bangkok

   Our first stop is in Bogota To check Columbian fields The natives smile and pass along A sample of their yield Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams Golden Acapu...
Chronicles (Disk 2) / A Passage To Bangkok (Live)

   Suddenly, you were gone From all the lives you left your mark upon I remember How we talked and drank into the misty dawn I hear the voices We ran b...
Grace Under Pressure / Afterimage

   You and I, we are strangers by one chromosome Slave to the hormone, body and soul In a struggle to be happy and free Swimming in a primitive sea You a...
Counterparts / Alien Shore

   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 ...
Presto / Anagram (For Mongo)

   Polarize me Sensitize me Criticize me Civilize me Compensate me Animate me Complicate me Elevate me Goddess in my garden Sister in my soul Angel in m...
Counterparts / Animate

   Know your place in life is where you want to be Don't let them tell you that you owe it all to me Keep on looking forward...no use in looking 'round H...
Fly By Night / Anthem

   The restless wind Has seen all things In every kind of light Rising with the full moon To go howling through the night The sleepless wind Has heard a...
Presto / Available Light

   There's no bread, let them eat cake There's no end to what they'll take Flaunt the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth But they're mar...
Caress Of Steel / Bastille Day

   Love won't see my comin' on a Sunday noon today. Still don't believe we're fadin', but now the world should wait. And now you're fina'lly list'nin' t...
Rush / before and after

   Ten score years ago, defeat the kingly foe A wondrous dream came into being Tame the trackless waste, no virgin land left chaste All shining eyes, but...
__Other Songs__ / Beneath, Between And Behind

   I've got a livin' that's rough, a future that's tough You know what I mean Blankers and boasters, all the bluffers and posers I'm not into that scene ...
Fly By Night / Best I Can

   There is a lake between sun and moon Not too many know about In the silence between whisper and shout The space between wonder and doubt This is a fi...
Counterparts / Between Sun And Moon

   To live between a rock and a hard place In between time Cruising in prime time Soaking up the cathode rays To live between the wars in our time Livin...
Grace Under Pressure / Between The Wheels

   If we burn our wings Flying too close to the sun If the moment of glory Is over before it's begun If the dream is won Though everything is lost We wil...
Roll The Bones / Bravado

   (No lyrics avaible)...
Exit ...Stage Left / Broon's Bane

   Tobes of Hades, lit by flickering torchlight The netherworld is gathered in the glare Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the north light The sign of Et...
Fly By Night / By-Tor And The Snow Dog

   You can roll that stone To the top of the hill Drag your ball and chain behind you You can carry that weight With an iron will Or let the pain remain...
Test for Echo / Carve Away The Stone

   It's not the heat It's the inhumanity Plugged into the sweat of a summer street Machine gun images pass Like malice through a looking glass The slack...
Vapor Trails / Ceiling Unlimited

   Energy is contagious Enthusiasm spreads Tides respond to lunar gravitation Everything turns in synchronous relation Laughter is infectious Excitement...
Presto / Chain Lightning

   Signal transmitted Message received Reaction making impact Invisibly Elemental telepathy Exchange of energy Reaction making contact Mysteriously Eye...
Signals / Chemistry

   A modest man from Mandrake Travelled rich to the city He had a need to discover A use for his newly-found wealth Because he was human Becaus...
A Farewell To Kings / Cinderalla Man

   A modest man from Mandrake Travelled rich to the city He had a need to discover A use for his newly found wealth Because he was human Because he had ...
A Farewell To Kings / Cinderella Man

   A boy alone, so far from home, Endless rooftops from my window. I felt the gloom of empty rooms On rainy afternoons. Sometimes, in confusion, I felt s...
Hemispheres / circumstances

   And the men who hold high places Must be the ones who start To mold a new reality Closer to the heart Closer to the heart The blacksmith and the artis...
__Other Songs__ / Closer To The Heart

   It was long after midnight When we got to unconditional love She said, 'Sure, my heart is boundless But don't push my limits too far' I said, 'If love...
Counterparts / Cold Fire

   Lit up with anticipation We arrive at the launching site The sky is still dark, nearing dawn On the Florida coastline Circling choppers slash the nig...
Signals / Countdown

   It is the fire that lights itself But it burns with a restless flame The arrow on a moving target The archer must be sure of his aim It is the engine...
Counterparts / Cut To The Chase

   [I. Prelude] When our weary world was young The struggle of the ancients first began The gods of love and reason Sought alone to rule the fate of man...
Hemispheres / Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres

   [Prologue:] In the constellation of Cygnus, there lurks a mysterious, invisible force: the black hole of Cygnus X-1... Six Stars of the Northern Cros...
A Farewell To Kings / Cygnus X-1, Book One: The Voyage

   Who's come to slay the dragon? Come to watch him fall? Making arrows out of pointed words Giant killers at the call? Too much fuss and bother Too much...
Permanent Waves / Different Strings

   His world is under observation We monitor his station Under faces and the places Where he traces points of view He picks up scraps of conversation Ra...
Signals / Digital Man

   An ill wind comes arising Across the cities of the plain No singing in the acid rain Red alert Red alert It's so hard to stay together Passing throug...
Chronicles (Disk 2) / Distant Early Warning

   In a dog's life A year is really more like seven And all too soon a canine Will be chasing cars in doggie heaven It seems to me As we make our own fe...
Test for Echo / Dog Years

   Where would you rather be? Anywhere but here When will the time be right? Anytime but now 'On the edge of sleep, I was drifting for half the night An...
Counterparts / Double Agent

   He's got a road map of Jupiter A radar fix on the stars All along the highway She's got a liquid-crystal compass A picture book of the rivers Under th...
Roll The Bones / Dreamline

   Driven up and down in circles Skidding down a road of black ice Staring in and out storm windows Driven to a fool's paradise It's my turn to drive Bu...
Test for Echo / Driven

   On certain nights When the angles are right And the moon is a slender crescent It's circle shows In a ghostly glow Of earthly luminescence Earthshin...
Vapor Trails / Earthshine

   When we lift the covers from our feelings We expose our insecure spots Trust is just as rare as devotion Forgive us our cynical thoughts If we need to...
Power Windows / Emotion Detector

   We are secrets to each other Each one's life a novel No one else has read Even joined in bonds of love We're linked to one another By such slender thr...
Permanent Waves / Entre Nous

   In the house where nobody laughs And nobody sleeps In the house where love lies dying And the shadows creep A little girl hides shaking With her hands...
Counterparts / Everyday Glory

   You turn my head I spin my wheels Running on empty You know how that feels I'm on a roll now Or is it a slide? Can't be too careful With that dangero...
Roll The Bones / Face Up

   Yeah, oh yeah! Ooh, said I, I'm comin' out to get you Ooh, sit down, I'm comin' out to find you Ooh, yeah Ooh yeah Findin' my way! I've been gone so ...
Rush / Finding My Way

   Why try? I know why The feeling inside me says it's time I was gone Clear head, new life ahead I want to be king now not just one more pawn Chorus Fl...
__Other Songs__ / Fly By Night

   Tough times demand tough talk demand tough hearts demand tough songs We can rise and fall like empires Flow in and out like the tide Be vain and smar...
Chronicles (Disk 2) / Force Ten

   There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance A planet of play things We dance on...
Permanent Waves / Freewill

   The city crouches, steaming In the early morning half light The sun is still a rumor And the night is still a threat Slipping through the dark streets...
Vapor Trails / Freeze

   The city crouches, steaming In the early morning half-light The sun is still a rumor And the night is still a threat Slipping through the dark streets...
Vapor Trails / Freeze (Part IV of Fear)

   Like a million little doorways All the choices we made All the stages we passed through All the roles we played For so many different directions Our ...
Roll The Bones / Ghost Of A Chance

   Pack up all those phantoms Shoulder that invisible load Keep on riding North and West Haunting that wilderness road Like a ghost rider Carry all thos...
Vapor Trails / Ghost Rider

   A to B Different degrees... So much style without substance So much stuff without style It's hard to recognize the real thing It comes along once in ...
Power Windows / Grand Designs

   Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway Half the world lives Half the world ma...
Test for Echo / Half The World

   Hand over fist Paper around the stone Scissors cut the paper Cut the paper to the bone Hand over fist Paper around the stone Scissors cut the paper An...
Presto / Hand Over Fist

   I said I played this song so many times before that the melody keeps repeating growing new ideas, flowing chords and notes like a mountain riverthe th...
Rush / here again

   All around that dull grey world From Moscow to Berlin People storm the barricades Walls go tumbling in The counter-revolution People smiling through ...
Roll The Bones / Heresy

   When the waters rose in the darkness In the wake of the endless flood It flowed into our memory It flowed into our blood When something broke the sur...
Hold Your Fire / High Water

   Here's a little trap That sometimes catches everyone When today's as far as we can see Faith in bright tomorrows Giving way to resignation That's how ...
Vapor Trails / How It Is

   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 I think I'm going bald Seems like ...
Caress Of Steel / I Think I'm Going Bald

   Well, I can see what you mean It just takes me longer And I can feel what you feel It just makes you stronger [Chorus:] I know, I know, I know Oh, th...
Fly By Night / In The End

   Hey now, baby, well, I like your smile. Won't you come and talk to me. for a little while. Well, you're makin' me crazy, the way you roll them eyes. ...
Rush / in the mood

   The clouds prepare for battle In the dark and brooding silence Bruised and sullen storm clouds Have the light of day obscured Looming low and ominous ...
Exit ...Stage Left / Jacob's Ladder

   A world of difference A world so out of touch Overwhelmed by everything But wanting more so much Call it blind frustration Call it blind man's bluff ...
Grace Under Pressure / Kid Gloves

   (An Exercise in Self-Indulgence) Includes: 1. Buenas Noches, Mein Froinds! 2. To sleep, perchance to dream... 3. Strangiato Theme 4. A Lerxst in Wond...
Hemispheres / la villa strangiato

   Midway hawkers calling 'Try your luck with me' Merry-go-round wheezing The same old melody A thousand ten cent wonders Who could ask for more A pocket...
Caress Of Steel / Lakeside Park

   (Instrumental)...
Counterparts / Leave That Thing Alone

   Sweet memories Flashing very quickly by Reminding me And giving me a reason why I know that My goal is more than a thought I'll be there When I teach ...
2112 / Lessons

   instrumental...
Test for Echo / Limbo

   Living on a lighted stage Approaches the unreal For those who think and feel In touch with some reality Beyond the gilded cage. Cast in this unlikely...
__Other Songs__ / Limelight

   I don't want to face the killer instinct Face it in you or me We carry a sensitive cargo Below the waterline Ticking like a time bomb With a primitiv...
Hold Your Fire / Lock And Key

   The dancer slows her frantic pace In pain and desperation Her aching limbs and downcast face Aglow with perspiration Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire...
Signals / Losing It

   When the dragons grow too mighty To slay with pen or sword I grow weary of the battle And the storm I walk toward When all around is madness And there...
A Farewell To Kings / Madrigal

   There's a time for feelin' as good as we can The time is now and there's no stoppin' us There's a time for livin' as high as we can Behind us you will...
Fly By Night / Making Memories

   Imagine a time when it all began In the dying days of a war They always had before... Imagine a man where it all began A scientist pacing the floor T...
A Show Of Hands / Manhattan Project

   It's not how fast you can go The force goes into the flow If you pick up the beat You can forget about the heat More than just survival More than just...
Power Windows / Marathon

   The office door closed early The hidden bottle came out The salesman turned to close the blinds A little slow now, a little stout But he's still headi...
Power Windows / Middletown Dreams

   Hold your fire Keep it burning bright Hold the flame 'til the dream ignites A spirit with a vision is a dream With a mission I hear their passionate ...
Hold Your Fire / Mission

   So many things I think about When I look far away Things I know, things I wonder Things I'd like to say The more we think we know about The greater th...
Power Windows / Mystic Rhythms

   So many things I think about When I look far away Things I'd like to say The more we think we know about The greater the unknown We suspend our disbel...
__Other Songs__ / Mystic Rhythms (Live)

   [1. Tide Pools] When the ebbing tide retreats Along the rocky shoreline It leaves a trail of tidal pools In a short-lived galaxy Each microcosmic pla...
Permanent Waves / Natural Science

   I'm runnin' here, I'm runnin' there. I'm lookin' for a girl. 'Cause there's nothin' I need, there's nothin' I want more in the whole wide world. Well...
Rush / need some love

   You just don't get it What it is...well, you're not really sure You move like you're walking on this ice Talking like you're still insecure Time is a...
Roll The Bones / Neurotica

   He's a rebel and a runner He's a signal turning green He's a restless young romantic Wants to run the big machine He's got a problem with his poisons...
Chronicles (Disk 2) / New World Man

   I knew he was different in his sexuality I went to his parties as a straight minority It never seemed a threat to my masculinity He only introduced me...
Counterparts / Nobody's Hero

   Did I have a dream? Or did the dream have me? Set off on a night-sea journey Without memory or desire Drifting through lost latitudes With no compass...
Vapor Trails / Nocturne

   A certain measure of innocence Willing to appear naive A certain degree of imagination A measure of make-believe A certain degree of surrender To the...
Vapor Trails / One Little Victory

   It went right by me At the time it went over my head I was looking out the window I should have looked at your face instead It went right by me Just ...
Hold Your Fire / Open Secrets

   It's not a place It's a yearning It's not a race It's a journey It's not an act It's attraction It's not a style It's an action It's a dream for the...
Vapor Trails / Out Of The Cradle

   A wave toward the clearing the sky All this time we're talking and sharing our rational view A billion other voices are spreading other news All this...
Vapor Trails / Peaceable Kingdom

   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 str...
Presto / Presto

   Basic elemental instinct to survive Stirs the higher passions Thrill to be alive Alternating currents in a tidewater surge Rational resistance to an ...
Hold Your Fire / Prime Mover

   My uncle has a country place That no one knows about. He says it used to be a farm Before the Motor Law. And on Sundays I elude the Eyes, And hop the ...
__Other Songs__ / Red Barchetta

   I see red And it hurts my head Guess it must be something That I read It's the color of your heartbeat A rising summer sun The battle lost or won The...
Grace Under Pressure / Red Lenses

   All that we can do is just survive All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive... Ragged lines of ragged grey Skeletons, they shuffle away Sho...
Chronicles (Disk 2) / Red Sector A

   Nature has some new plague To run in our streets History some new wrinkle We are doomed to repeat Fugitives at the bedroom door Lovers pause to find a...
Presto / Red Tide

   I can learn to resist Anything but temptation I can learn to coexist With anything but pain I can learn to compromise Anything but my desires I can l...
Test for Echo / Resist

   Sunlight dances through the leaves Soft winds stir the sighing trees Lying in the warm grass Feel the sun upon your face Eleven songs and endless nigh...
Fly By Night / Rivendell

   Well, I was only a kid...didn't know enough to be afraid Playing the game, but not the way the big boys played Nothing to lose...maybe I had something...
Roll The Bones / Roll The Bones

   I've stood upon my mountaintop And shouted at the sky Walked above the pavement With my sense amplified I get this feeling... All my nerves are naked...
Presto / Scars

   A memo to a higher office Open letter to the powers that be To a god, a king, a head of state A captain of industry To the movers and the shakers... C...
Hold Your Fire / Second Nature

   The way out Is the way in The way out Is the way in... Out of touch With the weather and the wind direction With the sunrise And the phases of the mo...
Vapor Trails / Secret Touch

   How many times do you hear it? It goes on all day long Everyone knows everything And no one's ever wrong Until later Who can you believe? It's hard t...
Chronicles (Disk 2) / Show Don't Tell

   Waiting for the winds of change To sweep the clouds away Waiting for the rainbow's end To cast its gold your way Countless ways You pass the days Wai...
2112 / Something For Nothing

   Begin the day with a friendly voice A companion unobtrusive Plays the song that's so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood Off on your ...
__Other Songs__ / Spirit of Radio

   Like the fly on the wheel, who says, ";What a lot of dust we're raising."; Are you under the illusion That you're part of this scheme? Seems like a li...
Vapor Trails / Stars Look Down

   Trust to your instincts If it's safely restrained Lightning reactions Must be carefully trained Heat of the moment Curse of the young Spit out your a...
Counterparts / Stick It Out

   Sprawling on the fringes of the city In geometric order An insulated border In between the bright lights and the far unlight unknown. Growing up it a...
Signals / Subdivisions

   Packaged like a rebel or a hero Target mass appeal To make an audience feel He really means it Package the illusion of persona Careful to conceal The...
Presto / Superconductor

   I wasn't walking on water I was standing on a reef When the tide came in Swept beneath the surface Lost without a trace No hope at all No hope at all ...
Vapor Trails / Sweet Miracle

   High on the sacred mountain Up the seven thousand stairs In the golden light of autumn There was magic in the air The clouds surrounded the summit Th...
Hold Your Fire / Tai Shan

   Well, I'm lookin' at you, and I'm wond'rin' what you're gonna do. Looks like you got no friends, no one to stick with you till the end. Take yourself...
Rush / take a friend

   All of the seasons and all of the days All of the reasons why I've felt this way So long... So long Then lost in that feeling I looked in your eyes I...
2112 / Tears

   We've taken care of everything The words you hear, the songs you sing The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes. It's one for all and all for one W...
__Other Songs__ / Temples Of Syrinx

   I see the Middle Kingdom between Heaven and Earth Like the Chinese call the country of their birth We all figure that our homes are set above Other pe...
Power Windows / Territories

   Here we go...vertigo Video vertigo Test for echo Here we go...in slo-mo Video vertigo Test for echo Some kind of trouble on the sensory screen Camer...
Test for Echo / Test For Echo

   A hot and windy August afternoon Has the trees in constant motion With a flash of silver leaves As they're rocking in the breeze The boy lies in the ...
Signals / The Analog Kid

   Big money goes around the world Big money underground Big money got a mighty voice Big money make no sound Big money pull a million strings Big money ...
Chronicles (Disk 2) / The Big Money

   Well, I was only a kid -- didn't know enough to be afraid Playing the game, but not the way the big boys played Nothing to lose -- maybe I had somethi...
Roll The Bones / The Big Wheel

   One humanoid escapee One android on the run Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun Trying to change its program Trying to change the mode...crac...
Grace Under Pressure / The Body Electric

   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 stre...
Moving Picture / The Camera Eye

   I don't have an explanation For another lonely night I just feel this sense of mission And the sense of what is right Take it easy on me now I'd be t...
Test for Echo / The Color Of Right

   Things crawl in the darkness That imagination spins Needles at your nerve ends Crawl like spiders on your skin Pounding in your temples And a surge o...
Grace Under Pressure / The Enemy Within

   Things crawl in the darkness That imagination spins Needles at your nerve ends Crawl like spiders on your skin Pounding in your temples And a surge o...
Grace Under Pressure / The Enemy Within (Part I of Fear)

   [I. In the Valley] I am born I am me I am new I am free Look at me I am young Sight unseen Life unsung My eyes have just been opened And they're ope...
Caress Of Steel / The Fountain Of Lamneth

   [I. Into the Darkness] 'As grey traces of dawn tinge the eastern sky, the three travelers, men of Willowdale, emerge from the forest shadow. Fording ...
Caress Of Steel / The Necromancer

   Proud swagger out of the school yard Waiting for the world's applause Rebel without a conscience Martyr without a cause Static on your frequency Elec...
Presto / The Pass

   Love is born with lightning bolts Electro-magnetic force Burning skin and fireworks A storm on a raging course Like a force of nature Love can fade wi...
Counterparts / The Speed Of Love

   Begin the day with a friendly voice, A companion unobtrusive Plays the song that's so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood. Off on you...
Permanent Waves / The Spirit of Radio

   Like the fly on the wheel who says 'What a lot of dust we're raising' Are you under the illusion That you're part of this scheme? Seems like a lifetim...
__Other Songs__ / The Stars Look Down

   There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas. The trouble with t...
__Other Songs__ / The Trees

   A pleasant faced man steps up to greet you He smiles and says he's pleased to meet you Beneath his hat the strangeness lies Take it off, he's got thre...
2112 / The Twilight Zone

   We've got nothing to fear...but fear itself? Not pain, not failure, not fatal tragedy? Not the faulty units in this mad machinery? Not the broken cont...
__Other Songs__ / The Weapon

   We've got nothing to fear -- but fear itself? Not pain, not failure, not fatal tragedy? Not the faulty units in this mad machinery? Not the broken con...
Signals / The Weapon (Part II of Fear)

   Time and motion Wind and sun and rain Days connect like boxcars in a train Fill them up with precious cargo Squeeze in all that you can find Spontaneo...
Test for Echo / Time And Motion

   I turn my back to the wind To catch my breath, Before I start off again. Driven on without a moment to spend To pass an evening with a drink and a fri...
Chronicles (Disk 2) / Time Stand Still

   A modern-day warrior Mean mean stride, Today's Tom Sawyer Mean mean pride. Though his mind is not for rent Don't put him down as arrogant His reserve...
__Other Songs__ / Tom Sawyer

   I've got twelve disciples and a Buddha smile Garden of Allah, Viking Valhalla A miracle once in a while I've got a pantheon of animals in a pagan sou...
Test for Echo / Totem

   Nothing can survive in a vacuum No one can exists all alone We pretend things only happen to strangers We've all got problems of our own It's enough t...
A Show Of Hands / Turn The Page

   Stratospheric traces of our transitory flight Trails of condensation held In narrow paths of white The sun is turning black The world is turning gray ...
Vapor Trails / Vapor Trail

   Like a shipwrecked mariner adrift on an unknown sea Clinging to the wreckage of the lost ship Fantasy I'm a castaway, stranded in a desolate land I ca...
Test for Echo / Virtuality

   Unstable condition A symptom of life In mental and environmental change Atmospheric disturbance The feverish flux Of human interface and interchange ...
Moving Picture / Vital Signs

   Girl before the mirror Appraises her disguise Child become a mother Tries to fix her eyes No more of his excuses It has to be today She can keep her f...
Presto / War Paint

   Well, I see you standin' there with your finger in the air. Ev'rything we do, you wanna leave it up to you. Who do you think you are? You think you a...
Rush / what you're doing

   (No lyrics avaible)...
Roll The Bones / Where's My Thing?

   The night is black Without a moon The air is thick and still The vigilantes gather on The lonely torch lit hill Features distorted in the flickering ...
Moving Picture / Witch Hunt

   I get up at seven, yeah, and I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin'. Yes, I'm workin' all the time. It seems to me I could live my life a lot...
Rush / working man

   'To seek the sacred river Alph To walk the caves of ice To break my fast on honeydew And drink the milk of Paradise...' I had heard the whispered tal...
A Farewell To Kings / Xanadu

   Just another hunter, like a wolf in the sun Just another junkie on a scoring run Just another victim of the things he has done Just another day ace up...
Roll The Bones / You Bet Your Life

   (No lyrics avaible)...
Exit ...Stage Left / Yyz