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Moving Pictures
by Rush
ALBUM RANKINGS:
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
3.5500
Avg. Critic Score:
3.6750
Moving Pictures Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- 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, a quiet defense
- Riding out the day's events
- The river
- What you say about his company
- Is what you say about society
- Catch the mist, catch the myth
- Catch the mystery, catch the drift
- The world is, the world is
- Love and life are deep
- Maybe as his skies are wide
- Today's Tom Sawyer
- He gets high on you
- And the space he invades
- He gets by on you
- No his mind is not for rent
- To any god or government
- Always hopeful, yet discontent
- He knows changes aren't permanent
- But change is
- What you say about his company
- Is what you say about society
- Catch the witness, catch the wit
- Catch the spirit, catch the spit
- The world is, the world is
- Love and life are deep
- Maybe as his eyes are wide
- Exit the warrior
- Today's Tom Sawyer
- He gets high on you
- And the energy you trade
- He gets right on to the friction of the day
- 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 Turbine Freight
- To far outside the Wire
- Where my white-haired uncle waits
- Jump to the ground
- As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
- Run like the wind
- As excitement shivers up and down my spine
- Down in his barn
- My uncle preserved for me an old machine
- For fifty odd years
- To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
- I strip away the old debris
- That hides a shining car
- A brilliant red Barchetta
- From a better vanished time
- I fire up the willing engine
- Responding with a roar
- Tires spitting gravel
- I commit my weekly crime
- Wind
- In my hair
- Shifting and drifting
- Mechanical music
- Adrenaline surge...
- Well-weathered leather
- Hot metal and oil
- The scented country air
- Sunlight on chrome
- The blur of the landscape
- Every nerve aware
- Suddenly ahead of me
- Across the mountainside
- A gleaming alloy air car
- Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
- I spin around with shrieking tires
- To run the deadly race
- Go screaming through the valley
- As another joins the chase
- Drive like the wind
- Straining the limits of machine and man
- Laughing out loud with fear and hope
- I've got a desperate plan
- At the one-lane bridge
- I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
- Race back to the farm
- To dream with my uncle at the fireside
- [Instrumental]
- 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 role
- Ill-equipped to act
- With insufficient tact
- One must put up barriers
- To keep oneself intact
- [Chorus:]
- Living in the limelight
- The universal dream
- For those who wish to seem
- Those who wish to be
- Must put aside the alienation
- Get on with the fascination
- The real relation
- The underlying theme
- Living in a fish eye lens
- Caught in the camera eye
- I have no heart to lie
- I can't pretend a stranger
- Is a long-awaited friend
- All the world's indeed a stage
- And we are merely players
- Performers and portrayers
- Each another's audience
- Outside the gilded cage
- [Chorus]
- 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 light
- The faces are twisted and grotesque
- Silent and stern in the sweltering night
- The mob moves like demons possessed
- Quiet in conscience, calm in their right
- Confident their ways are best
- The righteous rise
- With burning eyes
- Of hatred and ill-will
- Madmen fed on fear and lies
- To beat and burn and kill
- They say there are strangers who threaten us
- In our immigrants and infidels
- They say there is strangeness too dangerous
- In our theaters and bookstore shelves
- That those who know what's best for us
- Must rise and save us from ourselves
- Quick to judge
- Quick to anger
- Slow to understand
- Ignorance and prejudice
- And fear walk hand in hand...
- Unstable condition
- A symptom of life
- In mental and environmental change
- Atmospheric disturbance
- The feverish flux
- Of human interface and interchange
- The impulse is pure
- Sometimes our circuits get shorted
- By external interference
- Signals get crossed
- And the balance distorted
- By internal incoherence
- A tired mind become a shape-shifter
- Everybody need a mood lifter
- Everybody need reverse polarity
- Everybody got mixed feelings
- About the function and the form
- Everybody got to deviate from the norm
- An ounce of perception
- A pound of obscure
- Process information at half speed
- Pause, rewind, replay
- Warm memory chip
- Random sample, hold the one you need
- Leave out the fiction
- The fact is, this friction
- Will only be worn by persistence
- Leave out conditions
- Courageous convictions
- Will drag the dream into existence
- A tired mind become a shape-shifter
- Everybody need a soft filter
- Everybody need reverse polarity
- Everybody got mixed feelings
- About the function and the form
- Everybody got to elevate from the norm...
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