 Genius Meanings
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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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Rush – The Spirit of Radio [Exit...Stage Left]
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Verse 2] / Off on
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Rush – The Spirit of Radio [Grace Under Pressure Tour Live]
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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
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Catherine Wheel – Something Strange/Angelo Nero/Spirit Of Radio
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[Something Strange]: / All that I've come to feeling / Is a plastic wig??? / All that is grown / Is a plastic doll / Days so excited / All is just the things / All, all / Come down
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Rush – Tom Sawyer [Grace Under Pressure Tour Live]
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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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Rush – The Camera Eye [Time Machine]
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I / Grim-faced and forbidding / Their faces closed tight / An angular mass of New Yorkers / Pacing in rhythm / Race the oncoming night / They chase through the streets of Manhattan
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Rush – The Trees [Rush In Rio]
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There is unrest in the Forest / There is trouble with the trees / For the Maples want more sunlight / And the Oaks ignore their pleas / The trouble with the Maples / (And they’re
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Rush – Tom Sawyer [Exit...Stage Left]
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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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Rush – BU2B [Time Machine]
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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
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Rush – The Enemy Within [Grace Under Pressure Tour Live]
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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
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Rush – By-Tor and the Snow Dog [Rush In Rio]
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I. At The Tobes of Hades / The Tobes of Hades lit by flickering torchlight / The netherworld is gathered in the glare / Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the northlight / The sign
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Rush – Vital Signs [Rush In Rio]
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Unstable condition / A symptom of life / In mental and environmental change / Atmospheric disturbance / The feverish flux / Of human interface and interchange / The impulse is pure
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Rush – Broon's Bane [Exit...Stage Left]
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[instrumental]
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Rush – Wish Them Well [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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Victimized, Bereaved, And Disappointed, Seemingly At Every Turn, I still resist feeling defeated, or cynical. I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in
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Rush – A Passage to Bangkok [Exit...Stage Left]
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Our first stop is in Bogota / To check Colombian fields / The natives smile and pass along / A sample of their yield / Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams / Golden Acapulco nights / Then
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Rush – Subdivisions [Time Machine]
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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
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Rush – Dreamtime [Rush In Rio]
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He’s got a road map of Jupiter / A radar fix on the stars / All along the highway / She’s got a liquid-crystal compass / A picture book of the rivers / Under the Sahara / They
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Rush – Tom Sawyer
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The lead single from Rush’s eighth studio album Moving Pictures (1981). One of their most popular songs and described as the band’s “defining piece of music… from the ‘80s
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Rush – The Pass [Rush In Rio]
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[Verse 1] / Proud swagger out of the school yard / Waiting for the world's applause / Rebel without a conscience / Martyr without a cause / Static on your frequency / Electrical
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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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Rush – Leave That Thing Alone [Rush In Rio]
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[instrumental]
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Rush – Bravado [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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If we burn our wings / Flying too close to the sun / If the moment of glory / Is over before it's begun / If the dream is won / Though everything is lost / We will pay the price
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Rush – Peke’s Repose/Halo Effect [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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[Instrumental] / I Had Fallen Helplessly In Love with one of the performers. She was so different from “the girl I left behind,” and I was beginning to understand I had only
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Rush – The Trees [Exit...Stage Left]
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There is unrest in the Forest / There is trouble with the trees / For the Maples want more sunlight / And the Oaks ignore their pleas / The trouble with the Maples / (And they’re
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