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Permanent Waves
by Rush
ALBUM RANKINGS:
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
3.0623
Avg. Critic Score:
3.3000
Permanent Waves Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- 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 way, hit the open road
- There is magic at your fingers
- For the Spirit ever lingers
- Undemanding contact in your happy solitude
- [Chorus:]
- Invisible airwaves crackle with life
- Bright antennae bristle with the energy
- Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
- Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
- All this machinery making modern music
- Can still be open hearted
- Not so coldly charted
- It's really just a question of your honesty, yeah
- Your honesty
- One likes to believe in the freedom of music
- But glittering prizes and endless compromises
- Shatter the illusion of integrity
- [Chorus]
- For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
- Concert hall
- And echoes with the sounds of salesmen
- 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 the strings
- Of powers we cannot perceive
- 'The stars aren't aligned
- Or the gods are malign...'
- Blame is better to give than receive
- [Chorus:]
- You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
- If you choose not to decide, you still have 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 freewill
- There are those who think
- That they were dealt a losing hand
- The cards were stacked against them
- They weren't born in Lotusland
- All preordained
- A prisoner in chains
- A victim of venomous fate
- Kicked in the face
- You can't pray for a place
- In heaven's unearthly estate
- [Chorus]
- Each of us
- A cell of awareness
- Imperfect and incomplete
- Genetic blends
- With uncertain ends
- On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
- [Chorus]
- 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
- In twilight premature
- Thunder heads are rumbling
- In a distant overture...
- All at once, the clouds are parted
- Light streams down in bright unbroken beams...
- Follow men's eyes as they look to the skies
- The shifting shafts of shining weave the fabric of their dreams...
- 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 threads
- We are planets to each other
- Drifting in our orbits
- To a brief eclipse
- Each of us a world apart
- Alone and yet together
- Like two passing ships
- [Chorus:]
- Just between us
- I think it's time for us to recognize
- The differences we sometimes fear to show
- Just between us
- I think it's time for us to realize
- The spaces in between
- Leave room for you and I to grow
- We are strangers to each other
- Full of sliding panels
- An illusion show
- Acting well rehearsed routines
- Or playing from the heart?
- It's hard for one to know
- [Chorus]
- We are islands to each other
- Building hopeful bridges
- On a troubled sea
- Some are burned or swept away
- Some we would not choose
- But we're not always free
- [Chorus]
- 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 contradiction and confusion
- Peel away the mystery
- Here's a clue to some real motivation
- [Chorus:]
- All there really is
- The two of us
- And we both know why we've come along
- Nothing to explain
- It's a part of us
- To be found within a song
- What happened to our innocence
- Did it go out of style?
- Along with our naivete
- No longer a child
- Different eyes see different things
- Different hearts beat on different strings
- But there are times
- For you and me, when all such things agree
- [Chorus]
- [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 planet
- A complete society
- A simple kind mirror
- To reflect upon our own
- All the busy little creatures
- Chasing out their destinies
- Living in their pools
- They soon forget about the sea...
- Wheels within wheels in a spiral array
- A pattern so grand and complex
- Time after time we lose sight of the way
- Our causes can't see their effects
- [2. Hyperspace]
- A quantum leap forward
- In time and in space
- The universe learned to expand
- The mess and the magic
- Triumphant and tragic
- A mechanized world out of hand
- Computerized clinic
- For superior cynics
- Who dance to a synthetic band
- In their own image
- Their world is fashioned
- No wonder they don't understand
- [3. Permanent Waves]
- Science, like nature
- Must also be tamed
- With a view towards its preservation
- Given the same
- State of integrity
- It will surely serve us well
- Art as expression
- Not as market campaigns
- Will still capture our imaginations
- Given the same
- State of integrity
- It will surely help us along
- The most endangered species
- The honest man
- Will still survive annihilation
- Forming a world
- State of integrity
- Sensitive, open and strong
- Wave after wave will flow with the tide
- And bury the world as it does
- Tide after tide will flow and recede
- Leaving life to go on as it was...
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