 Genius Lyrics
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Rush – Limelight
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Notably ambivalent about fame and the consequent adoring crowds, Rush drummer Neil Peart penned these lyrics as a statement of such a sentiment, most forcefully in the lines:
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Rush – Limelight [Rush In Rio]
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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
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Rush – Limelight (Snakes & Arrows Live)
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Living on a lighted stage / Approaches the unreal / For those who think and feel / In touch with some reality / Beyond the gilded cage / [Pre-Chorus] / Cast in this unlikely role
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Rush – Limelight [Different Stages Live]
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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
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Rush – Limelight [Soundcheck Recording] - Live
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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
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Ninja Sex Party – Limelight
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Faded Paper Figures – Limelight
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From the Kid to the Gold Rush / You can see the Modern Times / From the Rink to the Pay Day / You can see the City Lights / From the Count to the Circus / I'm still here behind the
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Rush – Limelight Samples
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See all of “Limelight” by Rush’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Rush – Limelight [Time Machine]
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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
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Rush – Limelight (Live In YYZ 1981)
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We like to do something for you now from our Moving Pictures album, this is living in the Limelight... / [Verse 1] / Living on a lighted stage / Approaches the unreal / For those
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Rush – Limelight Live Versions
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See all of “Limelight” by Rush’s live versions
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Rush – Freewill
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[Verse 1] / There are those who think that / Life has nothing left to chance / A host of holy horrors / To direct our aimless dance / [Pre-Chorus 1] / A planet of playthings / We
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Farm Fresh (Ft. McEnroe & Pip Skid) – Limelight
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"Some will flip whatever it takes for limelight" - Rakaa Iriscience / [Verse One: Pip Skid] / Sees a backstage pass being better than doe / If he can pass one best believe he's
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Genius Pageviews For Rush’s Lyrics Spiked Nearly 2,500 Percent After Drummer & Lyricist Neil Peart’s Death
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Fans flocked to Genius for a better understanding of the dense lyrics he wrote for the band.
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Rush – Bastille Day
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“Bastille Day” recounts the history of the eponymous French and Canadian holiday. Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14th; it commemorates that day in 1789 when French citizens
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Rush – The Spirit of Radio
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The song is dedicated to CFNY, which at the time was a Toronto radio station that played “alternative” music – the kind of stuff that wasn’t being heard on the pop stations or the
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Nerf Herder – The Girl Who Listened to Rush
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[Verse] / From the back of the stadium / She's easy to see / Standing up at the stage / In her Starman tee / From "Anthem" to "Limelight" / To "YYZ" / She's the girl who listened
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Vincent Limelight – World Tour
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Love to hear my fans cheer / Sounds just like music to my ears / The energy in here is so inane / Dopamine is rushing through my brain / Every night a new stadium / Each one bigger
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Houndmouth – Sedona
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[Verse 1] / The red sandstone, it fell / Right smack on top of Sedona Arabelle / When John Ford said, "Won't you hop on in?" / And the Stagecoach baby gonna take you for a spin, oh
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Rush – Vital Signs
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[Verse 1] / Unstable condition / A symptom of life / In mental and environmental change / Atmospheric disturbance / The feverish flux / Of human interface and interchange / [Verse
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Rush – Malignant Narcissism/De Slagwerker
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[Instrumental]
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Rush – Tom Sawyer [Rush in Rio]
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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
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MIKNNA – Rush
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[Hook] / Driving fast, lead yo past, looking for the only thing / Highs on low, on your crash, let your hair go with the beams / Wrist on ice, need no convo, Balenciagas on yo feet
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Aitan Milman – Shine Like
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Always go into shit without a plan / But I be leavin them places like I’m the fuckin man / Wit the fish eye you know I gotta rhyme right / In the lense wit the rush you know they
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Rush – Entre Nous (Snakes & Arrows Live)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Mr. Varnell – Soundtrack Of My Life
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1. I Was Born (1980): Raekwon’s "Masters Of Our Fate." / 2. Fell in love with music forever (1993): Rush's "Limelight." / 3. Suffered for several years with severe depression (2004
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