Rush - Grace Under Pressure lyrics
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Tracks 01. Distant Early Warning
02. Afterimage 03. Red Sector A 04. The Enemy Within (Part I Of Fear) 05. The Body Electric 06. Kid Gloves 07. Red Lenses 08. Between The Wheels 01. Distant Early Warning
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 02. Afterimage
Suddenly, you were gone
From all the lives you left your mark upon I remember How we talked and drank into the misty dawn I hear the voices We ran by the water on the wet summer lawn I see the footprints I remember I feel the way you would I feel the way you would Tried to believe but you know it's no good This is something that just can't be understood I remember The shouts of joy skiing fast through the woods I hear the echoes I learned your love for life, I feel the way that you would I feel your presence I remember I feel the way you would This just can't be understood. 03. Red Sector A
All that we can do is just survive
All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive Ragged lines of ragged grey Skeletons, they shuffle away Shouting guards and smoking guns Will cut down the unlucky ones I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed A wound that will not heal A heart that cannot feel Hoping that the horror will recede Hoping that tomorrow we'll all be freed Sickness to insanity Prayer to profanity Days and weeks and months go by Don't feel the hunger Too weak to cry I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate Are the liberators here? Do I hope or do I fear? For my father and my brother, it's too late But I must help my mother stand up straight Are we the last ones left alive? Are we the only human beings to survive? 04. The Enemy Within (Part I Of Fear)
Things crawl in the darkness
That imagination spins Needles at your nerve ends Crawl like spiders on your skin Pounding in your temples And a surge of adrenaline Every muscle tense to fence the enemy within I'm not giving in to security under pressure I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure I'm not giving up on implausible dreams Experience to extremes Experience to extremes Suspicious looking stranger Flashes you a dangerous grin Shadows across your window Was it only trees in the wind? Every breath a static charge, A tongue that tastes like tin Steely-eyed outside to hide the enemy within To you, is it movement or is it action? Is it contact or just reaction? And you revolution or just resistance? Is it living, or just existence? Yeah, you! It takes a little more persistence To get up and go the distance I'm not giving in to security under pressure I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure I'm not giving up on implausible dreams Experience to extremes Experience to extremes 05. The Body Electric
One humanoid escapee
One android on the run Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun Trying to change its program Trying to change the mode -- crack the code Images conflicting into data overload 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 SOS 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 In distress 1-0-0-1-0-0 Memory banks unloading Bytes break into bits Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of its wits Guidance systems break down A struggle to exist To resist A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 SOS 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 In distress 1-0-0-1-0-0 It replays each of the days A hundred years of routines Bows its head and prays To the mother of all machines 06. Kid Gloves
A world of difference
A world so out of touch Overwhelmed by everything But wanting more so much Call it blind frustration Call it blind man's bluff Call each other names Your voices rude Your voices rough Then you learn the lesson That it's cool to be so tough Handle with kid gloves Handle with kid gloves Then you learn the lessons Taught in school won't be enough Put on your kid gloves Put on your kid gloves Then you learn the lesson That it's cool to be so tough A world of indifference Heads and hearts too full Careless of the consequence Of constant push and pull Anger got bare knuckles Anger play the fool Anger wear a crown of thorns Reverse the golden rule Then you learn the lesson That it's tough to be so cool Handle with kid gloves Handle with kid gloves Then you learn the weapons And the ways of hard knock school Put on your kid gloves Put on your kid gloves Then you learn the lesson That it's tough to be so cool 07. Red Lenses
I see red
And it hurts my head Guess it must be something That I read It's the color of your heartbeat A rising summer sun The battle lost or won The flash to fashion And the pulse to passion Feels red Inside my head And truth is often bitter Left unsaid Said red, red Thinking about the overhead The underfed Couldn't we talk about something else instead? We've got mars on the horizon Says the national midnight star It's true What you believe is what you are A pair of dancing shoes The soviets are the blues The reds Under your bed Lying in the darkness Dead ahead And the mercury is rising Barometer starts to fall You know it gets to us all The pain that is learning And the rain that is burning Feel red Still go ahead You see black and white And I see red Red Not blue. 08. Between The Wheels
To live between a rock and a hard place
In between time Cruising in prime time Soaking up the cathode rays To live between the wars in our time Living in real time Holding the good time Holding on to yesterdays You know how that rabbit feels Going under your speeding wheels Bright images flashing by Like windshields towards a fly Frozen in the fatal climb But the wheels of time Just pass you by Wheels can take you around Wheels can cut you down We can go from boom to bust From dreams to a bowl of dust We can fall from rockets' red glare Down to "Brother can you spare..." Another war Another wasteland And another lost generation It slips between your hands like water This living in real time A dizzying lifetime Reeling by on celluloid Struck between the eyes By the big-time world Walking uneasy streets Hiding beneath the sheets Got to try and fill the void You know how that rabbit feels Going under your speeding wheels Bright images flashing by Like windshields towards a fly Frozen in the fatal climb But the wheels of time Just pass you by Wheels can take you around Wheels can cut you down We can go from boom to bust From dreams to a bowl of dust We can fall from rockets' red glare Down to "Brother can you spare..." Another war Another wasteland And another lost generation |