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Retrospective 1974-80

2112 "I lie awake, staring out at the bleakness of Megadon. City and sky become one, merging into a ...
2112 Chords and Tabs

Anthem Know your place in life is where you want to be, Don't let them tell you that you owe it all to me. ...
Anthem Chords and Tabs

Bastille Day There's no bread, let them eat cake There's no end to what they'll take Flaunt the fruits of noble b...
Bastille Day Chords and Tabs

By-Tor And The Snow Dog Tobes of Hades, lit by flickering torchlight The netherworld is gathered in the glare Prince By-Tor ...
By-Tor And The Snow Dog Chords and Tabs

Closer To The Heart And the men who hold high places Must be the ones who start To mold a new reality Closer to the hear...
Closer To The Heart Chords and Tabs

Finding My Way Yeah, oh yeah! Ooh, said I, I'm comin' out to get you. Ooh, sit down, I'm comin' out to find you. Oo...
Finding My Way Chords and Tabs

Fly By Night Why try? Now why? The feeling inside me says it's time I was gone Clear head, new life ahead Its tim...
Fly By Night Chords and Tabs

Freewill There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance, A host of holy horrors to direct our...
Freewill Chords and Tabs

La Villa Strangiato Instrumental 1. Buenas Noches, Mein Froinds! 2. To sleep, perchance to dream... 3. Strangiato Them...
La Villa Strangiato Chords and Tabs

Something For Nothing Waiting for the winds of change To sweep the clouds away Waiting for the rainbow's end To cast its g...
Something For Nothing Chords and Tabs

The Spirit of Radio Begin the day with a friendly voice, A companion unobtrusive Plays the song that's so elusive And th...
The Spirit of Radio Chords and Tabs

The Trees There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight An...
The Trees Chords and Tabs

Xanadu "To seek the sacred river Alph To walk the caves of ice To break my fast on honeydew And drink ...
Xanadu Chords and Tabs

2112

2112 - Rush
A Passage To Bangkok Our first stop is in Bogota To check Colombian fields The natives smile and pass along A sample of t...
A Passage To Bangkok Chords and Tabs

Lessons Sweet memories Flashing very quickly by Reminding me And giving me a reason why I know that My goal ...
Lessons Chords and Tabs

Tears All of the seasons and all of the days All of the reasons why I've felt this way So long... So long ...
Tears Chords and Tabs

The Twilight Zone A pleasant faced man steps up to greet you He smiles and says he's pleased to meet you Beneath his h...
The Twilight Zone Chords and Tabs

Counterparts

Counterparts - Rush
Alien Shore You and I, we are strangers by one chromosome Slave to the hormone, body and soul In a struggle to b...
Alien Shore Chords and Tabs

Animate Polarize me Sensitize me Criticize me Civilize me Compensate me Animate me Complicate me Elevate me ...
Animate Chords and Tabs

Between Sun And Moon There is a lake between sun and moon Not too many know about In the silence between whisper and shou...

Cold Fire It was long after midnight When we got to unconditional love She said "Sure, my heart is boundl...
Cold Fire Chords and Tabs

Cut To The Chase It is the fire that lights itself But it burns with a restless flame The arrow on a moving target Th...
Cut To The Chase Chords and Tabs

Double Agent Where would you rather be? Anywhere but here When will the time be right? Anytime but now "On ...
Double Agent Chords and Tabs

Everyday Glory In the house where nobody laughs And nobody sleeps In the house where love lies dying And the shadow...
Everyday Glory Chords and Tabs

Nobody's Hero I knew he was different in his sexuality I went to his parties as a straight minority It never seeme...
Nobody's Hero Chords and Tabs

Stick It Out Trust to your instincts If it's safely restrained Lightning reactions Must be carefully trained Hea...
Stick It Out Chords and Tabs

The Speed Of Love Love is born with lightning bolts Electro-magnetic force Burning skin and fireworks A storm on a rag...
The Speed Of Love Chords and Tabs

Signals

Signals - Rush
Chemistry Signal transmitted Message received Reaction making impact Invisibly Elemental telepathy Exchange o...
Chemistry Chords and Tabs

Countdown Lit up with anticipation We arrive at the launching site The sky is still dark, nearing dawn On the ...
Countdown Chords and Tabs

Digital Man His world is under observation We monitor his station Under faces and the places Where he traces poi...
Digital Man Chords and Tabs

Losing It The dancer slows her frantic pace In pain and desperation, Her aching limbs and downcast face Aglow ...
Losing It Chords and Tabs

New World Man He's a rebel and a runner He's a signal turning green He's a restless young romantic Wants to run th...
New World Man Chords and Tabs

Subdivisions Sprawling on the fringes of the city In geometric order An insulated border In between the bright li...
Subdivisions Chords and Tabs

The Analog Kid A hot and windy August afternoon Has the trees in constant motion With a flash of silver leaves As t...
The Analog Kid Chords and Tabs

The Weapon (Part II of Fear) We've got nothing to fear -- but fear itself? Not pain, not failure, not fatal tragedy? Not the faul...

Hold Your Fire

Force Ten Tough times demand tough talk Demand tough hearts demand tough songs Demand... We can rise and fall...
Force Ten Chords and Tabs

High Water When the waters rose in the darkness In the wake of the endless flood It flowed into our memory It f...
High Water Chords and Tabs

Lock And Key I don't want to face the killer instinct Face it in you or me We carry a sensitive cargo Below the ...
Lock And Key Chords and Tabs

Mission Hold your fire, Keep it burning bright Hold the flame 'til the dream ignites A spirit with a vision ...
Mission Chords and Tabs

Open Secrets It went right by me, At the time it went over my head I was looking out the window I should have loo...
Open Secrets Chords and Tabs

Prime Mover Basic elemental instinct to survive Stirs the higher passions Thrill to be alive Alternating curren...
Prime Mover Chords and Tabs

Second Nature A memo to a higher office Open letter to the powers that be To a god, a king, a head of state A capt...
Second Nature Chords and Tabs

Tai Shan High on the sacred mountain Up the seven thousand stairs In the golden light of autumn There was mag...
Tai Shan Chords and Tabs

Time Stand Still I turn my back to the wind To catch my breath Before I start off again. Driven on without a moment t...
Time Stand Still Chords and Tabs

Turn the Page Nothing can survive in a vacuum No one can exists all alone We pretend things only happen to strange...
Turn the Page Chords and Tabs

Snakes & Arrows

Snakes & Arrows - Rush
Armor and Sword The snakes and arrows a child is heir to Are enough to leave a thousand cuts We build our defens...

Bravest Face Though we might have precious little It's still precious I like that song About this wonderfu...

Faithless I've got my own moral compass to steer by A guiding star beats a spirit in the sky And all the p...

Far Cry Pariah dogs and wandering madmen Barking at strangers and speaking in tongues The ebb and flow o...
Far Cry Chords and Tabs

Good News First The best we can agree on Is it could have been worse What happened to your old Benevolent unive...

Hope [instrumental] ...

Larger Bowl Whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa If we're so much the same like I always hear, why such different fortunes...
Larger Bowl Chords and Tabs

Main Monkey Business instrumental ...

Malignant Narcissism Instrumental ...
Malignant Narcissism Chords and Tabs

Spindrift As the waves crash in On the western shore The wind blows fierce from the east Wavetops torn in...

Way the Wind Blows Now it's come to this It's like we're back in the Dark Ages From the Middle East to the Middle W...

We Hold on How many times Do we tire of all the little battles Threaten to call it quits Tempted to cut an...

Workin' Them Angels Driving away to the east, and into the past History recedes in my rear-view mirror Carried away ...

Power Windows

Emotion Detector When we lift the covers from our feelings We expose our insecure spots Trust is just as rare as devo...
Emotion Detector Chords and Tabs

Grand Designs A to B Different degrees... So much style without substance So much stuff without style It's hard t...
Grand Designs Chords and Tabs

Manhattan Project Imagine a time when it all began In the dying days of a war A weapon that would settle the score Who...
Manhattan Project Chords and Tabs

Marathon It's not how fast you can go The force goes into the flow If you pick up the beat You can forget abo...
Marathon Chords and Tabs

Middletown Dreams The office door closed early The hidden bottle came out The salesman turned to close the blinds A li...
Middletown Dreams Chords and Tabs

Mystic Rhythms So many things I think about When I look far away Things I know, things I wonder Things I'd like to ...

Territories I see the Middle Kingdom between Heaven and Earth Like the Chinese call the country of their birth W...

The Big Money Big money goes around the world Big money underground Big money got a mighty voice Big money make no...
The Big Money Chords and Tabs

Retrospective II 1981-87

Distant Early Warning An ill wind comes arising Across the cities of the plain There's no swimming in the heavy water No s...
Distant Early Warning Chords and Tabs

Limelight Living on a lighted stage Approaches the unreal For those who think and feel In touch with some real...
Limelight Chords and Tabs

Red Barchetta My uncle has a country place That no one knows about. He says it used to be a farm Before the Motor ...
Red Barchetta Chords and Tabs

Red Sector A All that we can do is just survive All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive Ragged lines ...
Red Sector A Chords and Tabs

The Body Electric One humanoid escapee One android on the run Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun Trying to c...
The Body Electric Chords and Tabs

Tom Sawyer A modern-day warrior Mean mean stride, Today's Tom Sawyer Mean mean pride. Though his mind is not f...
Tom Sawyer Chords and Tabs

Grace Under Pressure

Afterimage Suddenly, you were gone From all the lives you left your mark upon I remember How we talked and dr...
Afterimage Chords and Tabs

Between the Wheels To live between a rock and a hard place In between time Cruising in prime time Soaking up the catho...
Between the Wheels Chords and Tabs

Kid Gloves A world of difference A world so out of touch Overwhelmed by everything But wanting more so much Ca...
Kid Gloves Chords and Tabs

Red Lenses I see red And it hurts my head Guess it must be something That I read It's the color of your heartb...
Red Lenses Chords and Tabs

The Enemy Within (Part I of Fear) Things crawl in the darkness That imagination spins Needles at your nerve ends Crawl like spiders on...

Test For Echo

Carve Away The Stone You can roll that stone To the top of the hill Drag your ball and chain behind you You can carry th...
Carve Away The Stone Chords and Tabs

Dog Years In a dog's life A year is really more like seven And all too soon a canine Will be chasing cars in d...

Driven Driven up and down in circles Skidding down a road of black ice Staring in and out storm windows Dri...
Driven Chords and Tabs

Half The World Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with...
Half The World Chords and Tabs

Limbo instrumental ...

Resist I can learn to resist Anything but temptation I can learn to co-exist With anything but pain I can ...
Resist Chords and Tabs

Test For Echo Here we go...vertigo Video vertigo Test for echo Here we go...in slo-mo Video vertigo Test for echo...
Test For Echo Chords and Tabs

The Color Of Right I don't have an explanation For another lonely night I just feel this sense of mission And the sense...

Time And Motion Time and motion Wind and sun and rain Days connect like boxcars in a train Fill them up with preciou...
Time And Motion Chords and Tabs

Totem I've got twelve disciples and a Buddha smile Garden of Allah, Viking Valhalla A miracle once in a wh...

Virtuality Like a shipwrecked mariner adrift on an unknown sea Clinging to the wreckage of the lost ship Fantas...
Virtuality Chords and Tabs

Roll The Bones

Bravado If we burn our wings Flying too close to the sun If the moment of glory Is over before it's begun If...
Bravado Chords and Tabs

Dreamline He's got a road map of Jupiter A radar fix on the stars All along the highway She's got a liquid-cry...
Dreamline Chords and Tabs

Face Up You turn my head I spin my wheels Running on empty You know how that feels I'm on a roll now Or is ...
Face Up Chords and Tabs

Ghost Of A Chance Like a million little doorways All the choices we made All the stages we passed through All the role...
Ghost Of A Chance Chords and Tabs

Heresy All around that dull grey world From Moscow to Berlin People storm the barricades Walls go tumbling ...
Heresy Chords and Tabs

Neurotica You just don't get it What it is ... well, you're not really sure You move like you're walking on th...
Neurotica Chords and Tabs

Roll The Bones Well, you can stake that claim Good work is the key to good fortune Winners take that praise Losers ...
Roll The Bones Chords and Tabs

The Big Wheel Well, I was only a kid -- didn't know enough to be afraid Played the game, but not the way the big b...
The Big Wheel Chords and Tabs

Where's My Thing? Instrumental ...

You Bet Your Life Just another hunter, like a wolf in the sun Just another junkie on a scoring run Just another victim...
You Bet Your Life Chords and Tabs

Presto

Presto - Rush
Anagram (for Mongo) There's a snake coming out of the darkness Parade from paradise End the need for eden Chase the drea...

Available Light The restless wind Has seen all things In every kind of light Rising with the full moon To go howling...
Available Light Chords and Tabs

Chain Lightning Energy is contagious Enthusiasm spreads Tides respond to lunar gravitation Everything turns in synch...
Chain Lightning Chords and Tabs

Hand Over Fist Hand over fist Paper around the stone Scissors cut the paper Cut the paper to the bone Hand over fis...
Hand Over Fist Chords and Tabs

Presto If I could wave my magic wand... I am made from the dust of the stars And the oceans flow in my vei...
Presto Chords and Tabs

Red Tide Nature has some new plague To run in our streets History some new wrinkle We are doomed to repeat Fu...
Red Tide Chords and Tabs

Scars I've stood upon my mountaintop And shouted at the sky Walked above the pavement With my sense amplif...
Scars Chords and Tabs

Show Don't Tell How many times do you hear it? It goes on all day long Everyone knows everything And no one's ever w...
Show Don't Tell Chords and Tabs

Superconductor Packaged like a rebel or a hero Target mass appeal To make an audience feel He really means it Pack...
Superconductor Chords and Tabs

The Pass Proud swagger out of the schoolyard Waiting for the world's applause Rebel without a conscience Mart...
The Pass Chords and Tabs

War Paint Girl before the mirror Appraises her disguise Child become a mother Tries to fix her eyes No more of...
War Paint Chords and Tabs

Rush In Rio

Earthshine On certain nights When the angles are right And the moon is a slender crescent It's circle shows In...
Earthshine Chords and Tabs

Ghost Rider Pack up all those phantoms Shoulder that invisible load Keep on riding North and West Haunting that ...
Ghost Rider Chords and Tabs

Natural Science 1. Tide Pools When the ebbing tide retreats Along the rocky shoreline, It leaves a trail of tidal po...
Natural Science Chords and Tabs

One Little Victory A certain measure of innocence Willing to appear naive A certain degree of imagination A measure of ...
One Little Victory Chords and Tabs

Secret Touch The way out Is the way in The way out Is the way in... Out of touch With the weather and the wind d...
Secret Touch Chords and Tabs

All The World's A Stage

In The End Well, I can see what you mean It just takes me longer And I can feel what you feel It just makes you...
In The End Chords and Tabs

In The Mood Hey now, baby, Well, I like your smile. Won't you come and talk to me for a little while? Well, you...
In The Mood Chords and Tabs

Lakeside Park Midway hawkers calling "Try your luck with me;" Merry-go-round wheezing The same old melod...
Lakeside Park Chords and Tabs

What You're Doing Well, I see you standin' there with your finger in the air. Everything we do, you wanna leave it up ...
What You're Doing Chords and Tabs

Working Man I get up at seven, yeah, And I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin', Yes, I'm workin' all th...
Working Man Chords and Tabs

Vapor Trails

Vapor Trails - Rush
Ceiling Unlimited It's not the heat It's the inhumanity Plugged into the sweat of a summer street Machine gun images p...

Freeze (Part IV of Fear) The city crouches, steaming In the early morning half-light The sun is still a rumor And the night i...

How It Is Here's a little trap That sometimes catches everyone When today's as far as we can see Faith in brig...

Nocturne Did I have a dream? Or did the dream have me? Set off on a night-sea journey Without memory or desi...

Out Of The Cradle 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'...
Out Of The Cradle Chords and Tabs

Peaceable Kingdom A waive toward the clearing the sky All this time we're talking and sharing our rational view A bil...

Stars Look Down Like the fly on the wheel, who says, "What a lot of dust we're raising." Are you under the...

Sweet Miracle I wasn't walking on water I was standing on a reef When the tide came in Swept beneath the surface L...

Vapor Trail Stratospheric traces of our transitory flight Trails of condensation held In narrow paths of white T...
Vapor Trail Chords and Tabs

Feedback

Feedback - Rush
Crossroads [Originally by Robert Johnson] I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees I went to the crossr...

For What It's Worth [Originally by Buffalo Springfield] There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear...
For What It's Worth Chords and Tabs

Heart Full Of Soul [Originally by The Yardbirds] Sick at heart and lonely, Deep in dark despair. Thinking one thought ...
Heart Full Of Soul Chords and Tabs

Mr. Soul [Originally by Buffalo Springfield] Oh, hello, Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason For the t...

Seven And Seven Is [Originally by Love] When I was a boy I thought about the times I'd be a man I'd sit inside a bottl...

Shapes Of Things [Originally by The Yardbirds] Shapes of things before my eyes, Just teach me to despise. Will time ...
Shapes Of Things Chords and Tabs

Summertime Blues Well, I'm gonna raise a fuss, Yes I'm gonna raise a holler About working all summer Just to try To e...
Summertime Blues Chords and Tabs

The Seeker [Originally by The Who] I've looked under chairs I've looked under tables I've tried to find the ke...

Moving Pictures

The Camera Eye I. Grim-faced and forbidding Their faces closed tight An angular mass of New Yorkers Pacing in rhyth...
The Camera Eye Chords and Tabs

Vital Signs Unstable condition, A symptom of life In mental and environmental change. Atmospheric disturbance, T...
Vital Signs Chords and Tabs

Witch Hunt The night is black Without a moon. The air is thick and still. The vigilantes gather on The lonely t...
Witch Hunt Chords and Tabs

Fly By Night

Beneath, Between, And Behind Ten score years ago, defeat the kingly foe A wondrous dream came into being Tame the trackless waste...

Best I Can I've got a livin' that's rough, a future that's tough You know what I mean Blankers and boasters, al...
Best I Can Chords and Tabs

Making Memories There's a time for feelin' as good as we can The time is now, and there's no stoppin' us There's a t...
Making Memories Chords and Tabs

Rivendell Sunlight dances through the leaves Soft winds stir the sighing trees Lying in the warm grass Feel th...
Rivendell Chords and Tabs

A Farewell To Kings

A Farewell to Kings When they turn the pages of history When these days have passed long ago Will they read of us with s...
A Farewell to Kings Chords and Tabs

Cinderella Man A modest man from Mandrake Travelled rich to the city He had a need to discover A use for his newly-...
Cinderella Man Chords and Tabs

Cygnus X-1, Book One: The Voyage Prologue: In the constellation of Cygnus, there lurks a mysterious, invisible force: the black hole ...

Madrigal When the dragons grow too mighty To slay with pen or sword I grow weary of the battle And the storm ...
Madrigal Chords and Tabs

Exit... Stage Left

Broon's Bane Instrumental ...
Broon's Bane Chords and Tabs

Jacob's Ladder The clouds prepare for battle In the dark and brooding silence. Bruised and sullen stormclouds Have ...
Jacob's Ladder Chords and Tabs

Yyz Instrumental ...
Yyz Chords and Tabs

Hemispheres

Hemispheres - Rush
Circumstances A boy alone, so far from home, Endless rooftops from my window. I felt the gloom of empty rooms On r...
Circumstances Chords and Tabs

Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres I. Prelude When our weary world was young The struggle of the ancients first began. The gods of Lov...

Rush

Before And After I've been seeing the coming Of something new today. I still don't believe we're fading, But never wa...
Before And After Chords and Tabs

Here Again I said I played this song so many times before That the melody keeps repeating. Growing new ideas, f...
Here Again Chords and Tabs

Need Some Love I'm runnin' here, I'm runnin' there, I'm lookin' for a girl. 'Cause there's nothin' I need, there's ...
Need Some Love Chords and Tabs

Take A Friend Well, I'm lookin' at you, And I'm wond'rin' what you're gonna do. Looks like you got no friends, No ...
Take A Friend Chords and Tabs

Permanent Waves

Different Strings Who's come to slay the dragon? Come to watch him fall? Making arrows out of pointed words, Giant kil...
Different Strings Chords and Tabs

Entre Nous We are secrets to each other Each one's life a novel No-one else has read. Even joined in bonds of l...
Entre Nous Chords and Tabs

Caress Of Steel

I Think I'm Going Bald I looked in the mirror today My eyes just didn't seem so bright I've lost a few more hairs I think I...
I Think I'm Going Bald Chords and Tabs

The Necromancer I. Into The Darkness "As grey traces of dawn tinge the eastern sky, the three travelers, men of...

No album

Annihilation Gun Weapons of mass distraction are used by politicians and conspiracy theorists within their reach The ...

Leave That Thing Alone (Instrumental) ...
Leave That Thing Alone Chords and Tabs

The Fountain Of Lamneth 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 unsun...

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