Quote: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]

Quote:Begin the day with a friendly voice,

A companion unobtrusive

Plays that 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.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life

Bright antenna 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.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life

Bright antenna bristle with the energy

Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength

Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

For the words of the prophets were written on
the studio wall,
Concert hall

And echoes with the sounds of salesmen. Of salesmen. Of salesmen.

Quote:Chorus:
Raise a little hell, raise a little hell, raise a little hell! (x2)
(repeat chorus)
If you don't like what you've got,
Why don't you change it?
If your world is all screwed up,
Rearrange it.
(Chorus)
If you don't like what you see,
Why don't you fight it?
If you know there's something wrong,
Why don't you right it?
(Chorus)
(Bridge
In the end it comes down to your thinking
And there's really nobody to blame
When you feel like your ship is sinking
And you're too tired to play the game
Nobody's going to help you
You've just got to stand up alone
And dig in your heels and see how it feels
To raise a little hell of your own!
(Chorus)
If you don't like what you've got,

Why don't you change it?

If your world is all screwed up,

Rearrange it.

(Chorus)x3

Proginoskes Wrote:Limelight, by Rush

Proginoskes Wrote:Spirit of Radio, by Rush

Proginoskes Wrote:Raise a Little Hell by Trooper

Quote:Doug's subconscious can be a dick sometimes.

Quote:Every day is an endless train
You've got to ride it to the end of the line
Be a troubleshooter, blow the bad luck away
And you will make it to your station on time

And you'll find out every trick in the book
That there's only one way to get things done
You'll find out the only way to the top
Is lookin' out for number one

I mean, you keep lookin' out for number one

Every night is a different game
We gotta work for our fortune and fame
Success is a ladder take a step at a time
And the people will remember your name

Yes, I found out all the tricks of the trade
That there's only one way that you'll get things done
I found out the only way to the top
Is lookin' out for number one

Every day is an endless train
But I ride it to the end of the line
I'm a real troubleshooter
And I blow it away
Know what's gonna get me mine

I found out every trick in the book
And that there's only one way to get things done
I found out the only way to the top
Is lookin' out for number one

I mean you
Keep lookin' out for number one

And that's us
Keep lookin' out for number one

That's me
I'm lookin' out for number one

Bob Schroeck Wrote:

Quote:Doug's subconscious can be a dick sometimes.

You know, I think that's the best way of putting it that I've heard so far.

Quote:Coming to you cross country
Hoping boogie is still allowed
You ask do we play heavy music
Well are thunderheads just another cloud, and we do
Not Fragile, straight at you
Then we vanish to the night
Still in your ears but out of sight
Not Fragile
Don't think we feel hurt or wounded
Or our egos are showing thru
It's our world that's been disrupted
And our strength reflects from you
Well its true
Not Fragile, over you
Try us when you're getting down
Feelin' high or just hangin' round
Not Fragile
The times we travel in our lives
Are hard and fast and give us drive
We may seem distant most of the time
But many thoughts are still on our minds
Not Fragile

Quote:An ill wind comes arising
Across the cities of the plain
There's no swimming in the heavy water
No singing in the acid rain
Red alert
Red alert

It's so hard to stay together
Passing through revolving doors
We need someone to talk to
And someone to sweep the floors
Incomplete
Incomplete

The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you

I know it makes no difference
To what you're going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you...

Cruising under your radar
Watching from satellites
Take a page from the red book
Keep them in your sights
Red alert
Red alert

Left and rights of passage
Black and whites of youth
Who can face the knowledge
That the truth is not the truth?
Obsolete
Absolute

The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you

I know it makes no difference
To what you're going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you

The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you

I know it makes no difference
To what you're going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you

Absalom
Absalom
Absalom

Quote:Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

[Chorus:]
(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...

[Chorus]

Proginoskes Wrote:Getting back to the titular group (Rush) here:Subdivisions

Quote:Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

[Chorus:]
(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...

[Chorus]

This isn't supported by the lyrics or the title at all, but this song, to me, lets misfits "escape". I'm not sure how exactly it accomplishes this.

Quote:I was brought up to believe
The universe has a plan
We are only human
It's not ours to understand 
The universe has a plan 
All is for the best 
Some will be rewarded 
And the devil take the rest 
All is for the best 
Believe in what we're told 
Blind men in the market 
Buying what we're sold 
Believe in what we're told 
Until our final breath 
While our loving Watchmaker 
Loves us all to death 
In a world of cut and thrust 
I was always taught to trust 
In a world where all must fail 
Heaven's justice will prevail 
The joy and pain that we receive 
Each comes with its own cost 
The price of what we're winning 
Is the same as what we've lost 
Until our final breath 
The joy and pain that we receive 
Must be what we deserve 
I was brought up to believe

Quote:To seek the Sacred River Alph,To walk the caves of ice;To break my fast on honey-dew,And drink the milk of Paradise;
I had heard the whispered tales of immortality,The deepest mystery;From an ancient book I took a clue:I scaled the frozen mountain tops of Eastern lands unknown,Time and Man alone,Searching for the lost Xanadu.Xanadu...
To stand within the Pleasure DomeDecreed by Kubla Khan;To taste anew the fruits of life,The last immortal man;To find the Sacred River Alph,To walk the caves of ice;Oh, I will dine on honey-dewAnd drink the milk of Paradise.
A thousand years have come and gone, but time has passed me by;Stars stopped in the sky,Frozen in an everlasting view;Waiting for the world to end, weary of the night,
Praying for the light;
Prison of the lost Xanadu.
Xanadu...

Held within the Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan;
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immortal man;
Nevermore shall I return;
Escape these caves of ice;
For I have dined on honeydew
And drunk the milk of Paradise.