Ah, one of my favorites, Luckie. Sychronicity 2. Thanks. That’s one more line of the song that I can actually understand.
I have a lot of trouble deciphering most rock lyrics. Then I go look them up on the web and say “DAMN! How was I not able to understand that?”
More great lyrics (and if I bungle any of these, don’t blame me. Blame the website I C&P’d them from) :
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still haven’t made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that’s clear-
I will choose Free Will.
—Rush - Freewill
Here’s another that’s not necessarily powerful, but it’s powerful in my mind since I agree with it so much :
Sometimes building ivory towers
Sometimes knocking castles down
Sometimes building you a stairway –
Lock you underground
It’s that old-time religion
it’s the kingdom they would rule
It’s the fool on television
Getting paid to play the fool
Big money goes around the world
Big money give and take
Big money done a power of good
Big money make mistakes
Big money got a heavy hand
Big money take control
Big money got a mean streak
Big money got no soul…
—Rush - The Big Money
And another Rush song while I’m at it :
Imagine a place where it all began
They gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand
All of the brightest boys
To play with the biggest toys ‹
More than they bargained for…
Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of “Enola Gay”
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history,
Would be changed for evermore…
—The Manhattan Project
Oh, what the hell. One more :
Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was cast
For they marched up to Bastille Day
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
power isn’t all that money buys.
—Rush - Bastille Day
You know, I’d be hard pressed to find an artist with half of the diversity of subject matter that Rush brings to the table. It’s refreshing to throw in a CD and not have to put up with any tired old love songs.