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- Lyrics to Rush - Fly By Night
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- Anthem
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- Words and music by Lee, Lifeson, and Peart
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- Know your place in life is where you want to be
- Don't let them tell you that you owe it all to me
- Keep on looking forward; no use in looking 'round
- Hold your head above the ground and they won't bring you down
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- Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind
- A funeral dirge for eyes gone blind
- We marvel after those who sought
- New wonders in the world, wonders in the world,
- Wonders in the world they wrought.
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- Live for yourself -- there's no one else
- More worth living for
- Begging hands and bleeding hearts will
- Only cry out for more
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- Well, I know they've always told you
- Selfishness was wrong
- Yet it was for me, not you, I
- Came to write this song
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- Best I Can
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- Words and music by Lee
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- I've got a livin' that's rough, a future that's tough
- You know what I mean
- Blankers and boasters, all the bluffers and posers
- I'm not into that scene
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- You can tell me that I got no class
- Look around, you'll see who's laughin' last
- Don't give me speeches 'cause they're oh so droll
- Leave me alone, let me rock and roll
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- Got an itchin' to rock, a hate for small talk
- I'm funny that way
- Got my sights on the stars, won't get that far
- But I'll try anyway
- I just like to please, don't like to tease
- I'm easy like that
- Don't like long rests, I must confess
- I'm an impatient cat
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- I do the best that I can
- I'm just what I am
- I do the best I can
- Well, I know what I am
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- Rock and roll-in's a scream, makin' millions my dream
- Well, I do that a lot
- I'll just give it a try, won't let good times pass me by
- They're all I've got
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- Beneath, Between And Behind
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- Words by Peart, music by Lifeson
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- Ten score years ago, defeat the kingly foe
- A wondrous dream came into being
- Tame the trackless waste, no virgin land left chaste
- All shining eyes, but never seeing
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- Beneath the noble birth
- Between the proudest words
- Behind the beauty, crack appear
- Once, with heads held high
- They sang out to the sky
- Why do their shadows bow in fear?
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- Watch the cities rise
- Another ship arrives
- Earth's melting pot and ever growing
- Fantastic dreams come true
- Inventing something new
- The greatest minds, and never knowing...
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- The guns replace the plow, facades are tarnished now
- The principles have been betrayed
- The dreams's gone stale, but still, let hope prevail
- History's debt won't be repaid
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- By-Tor And The Snow Dog
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- Words and music by Lee, Lifeson, and Peart
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- The Tobes of Hades, lit by flickering torchlight
- The netherworld is gathered in the glare
- Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the north light
- The sign of Eth is rising in the air.
- By-Tor, knight of darkness,
- Centurion of evil, devil's prince.
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- Across the River Styx, out of the lamplight
- His nemesis is waiting at the gate
- The Snow Dog, ermine glowing in the damp night
- Coal-black eyes shimmering with hate.
- By-Tor and the Snow Dog
- Square for battle, let the fray begin.
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- The battle's over and the dust is clearing
- Disciples of the Snow Dog sound the knell
- Rejoicing echoes as the dawn is nearing
- By-Tor in defeat retreats to Hell
- Snow Dog is victorious
- The land of the Overworld is saved again.
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- Fly By Night
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- Words and music by Lee and Peart
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- Why try? I know why
- This feeling inside me says it's time I was gone
- Clear head, new life ahead
- I want to be king now, not just one more pawn
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- Fly by night away from here
- Change my life again
- Fly by night, goodbye my dear
- My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
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- Moonrise, thoughtful eyes
- Staring back at me from the window beside
- No fright or hindsight
- Leaving behind that empty feeling inside
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- Start a new chapter, I find what I'm after
- Is changing every day.
- The change of a season's enough of a reason
- To want to get away
- Quiet and pensive, my thoughts apprehensive
- The hours drift away
- Leaving my homeland, playing a lone hand
- My life begins today
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- Making Memories
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- Words and music by Lee, Lifeson, and Peart
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- There's a time for feelin' as good as we can
- The time is now, and there's no stoppin' us
- There's a time for livin' as high as we can
- Behind us you will only see our dust.
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- You know we're havin' good days
- And we hope they're gonna last
- Our future still looks brighter than our past
- We feel no need to worry
- No reason to be sad
- Our mem'ries remind us, maybe road life's not so bad.
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- Just keep smilin', move onward ev'ry day
- And try to keep our thoughts away from home
- We're trav'lin' around, no time to settle down
- And satisfy our wanderlust to roam.
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- Well from sea to shining sea, and a hundred points between
- Still we go on diggin' ev'ry show
- The cities in the land all extend a welcome hand
- Till morning when it's time for us to go.
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- Rivendell
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- Words and music by Lee and Peart
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- Sunlight dances through the leaves
- Soft winds stir the sighing trees
- Lying in the warm grass
- Feel the sun upon your face
- Elfin songs and endless nights
- Sweet wine and soft relaxing lights
- Time will never touch you
- Here in this enchanted place
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- You feel there's something calling you
- You're wanting to return
- To where the misty mountains rise and friendly fires burn
- A place you can escape the world
- Where the dark lord cannot go
- Peace of mind and sanctuary by loud water's flow
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- I've traveled now for many miles
- It feels so good to see the smiles of
- Friends who never left your mind
- When you were far away
- From the golden light of coming dawn
- Till the twilight where the sun is gone
- We treasure ev'ry season
- And ev'ry passing day
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- We feel the coming of a new day
- Darkness gives way to light a new way
- Stop here for a while until the world,
- The world calls you away
- Yet you know I've had the feeling
- Standing with my senses reeling
- This is the place to grow old till
- I reach my final day.
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- In The End
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- Words and music Lee and Lifeson
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- Well, I can see what you mean
- It just takes me longer
- And I can feel what you feel
- It just makes you stronger
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- I know, I know, I know
- Oh, the feeling grows
- I see, I see, I see
- It's got to be
- You can take me for a little while
- You can take me, you can make me smile in the end
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- Well, I can do what you do
- You just do it better
- And I can cry like you cry
- It just makes me sadder
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- Well, I can shine like you shine
- It doesn't make me brighter
- But if I think like you think
- It don't make my load much lighter
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