Rush (1968-Present) is a Canadian progressive rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.

Members

• Geddy Lee: Bass guitar, Mini-Moog, Oberheim Polyphonic, Taurus Pedals, synthesizers, lead vocals (1968-present)
• Alex Lifeson: Six and twelve string acoustic and electric guitars, mandola, bass pedals, backing vocals (1968-present)
• Neil Peart: Drums, electronic and acoustic percussion (1974-present)
• John Rutsey: Drums (1968-1974)

Albums

Rush

• Well I get up at 7 yeah and I go to work at 9 I got no time for living I'm working all the time It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me, they call me the workin' man. I get home at five o'clock and I take a sip out an ice cold beer always seem to be wondering why there's nothing going on around here It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me, they call me the workin' man.
  • Working Man

Fly By Night

• Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more
  • "Anthem"

• Quiet and pensive My thoughts apprehensive The hours drift away Leaving my homeland Playing a lone hand My life begins today
  • "Fly By Night"

• 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
  • "Rivendell"

Caress Of Steel

• For they marched up to Bastille Day La guillotine -- claimed her bloody prize Hear the echoes of the centuries Power isn't all that money buys
  • "Bastille Day"

I am born, i am me, i am new, i am free. Look at me, i am young, sight unseen, life unsung.

"In the Valley from The Fountain of Lamneth"

2112

• You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise With the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be
  • "Something For Nothing"

A Farewell To Kings

• When they turn the pages of history When these days have passed long ago Will they read of us with sadness For the seeds that we let grow We turned our gaze From the castles in the distance Eyes cast down On the path of least resistance
  • "A Farewell To Kings"

• And the men who hold high places Must be the ones to start To mold a new reality Closer to the Heart
  • "Closer To The Heart"

• When life becomes so barren And as cold as winter skies There's a beacon in the darkness In a distant pair of eyes In vain to search for honor In vain to search for truth But these things can still be given Your love has shown me proof
  • "Madrigal"

Hemispheres

• They battled through the ages, But still neither force would yield. The people were divided, Every soul a battlefield.
  • "Cygnus X-1 Book Two: Hemispheres"

• All the same, we take our chances, Laughed at by Time, Tricked by Circumstances. Plus ca change, Plus c'est la meme chose, The more that things change, The more they stay the same.
  • "Circumstances"

• So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights. "The oaks are just too greedy; We will make them give us light." Now there's no more oak oppression, For they passed a noble law, And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw.
  • "The Trees"

Permanent Waves

• Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price Almost Free
  • "The Spirit of Radio"

• 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.
  • "The Spirit Of Radio"

• A planet of playthings, We dance on the strings Of powers we cannot perceive "The stars aren't aligned - Or the gods are malign" Blame is better to give than receive.
  • "Freewill"

• You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill; I will choose a path that's clear- I will choose Free Will.
  • "Freewill"

• Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete. Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet.
  • "Freewill"

• 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.
  • "Entre Nous"

• We are planets to each other, Drifting in our orbits To a brief eclipse. Each of us a world apart, Alone and yet together, Like two passing ships.
  • "Entre Nous"

• All there really is, The two of us, And we both know why we've come along. Nothing to explain, It's a part of us To be found within a song.
  • "Different Strings"

• Wheels within wheels in a spiral array, A pattern so grand and complex, Time after time we lose sight of the way, Our causes can't see their effects.
  • "Natural Science"

• In their own image Their world is fashioned- No wonder they don't understand
  • "Natural Science"

• Science, like nature Must also be tamed With a view towards its preservation Given the same State of integrity It will surely serve us well
  • "Natural Science"

Moving Pictures

• No, his mind is not for rent To any god or government. Always hopeful, yet discontent, He knows changes aren't permanent, But change is.
  • "Tom Sawyer"

• All the world's indeed a stage, And we are merely players, Performers and portrayers, Each another's audience Outside the gilded cage.
  • "Limelight"

• They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness, too dangerous In our theatres and bookstore shelves, That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves.
  • "Witch Hunt (Part III of Fear)"

• Everybody got to elevate from the norm.
  • "Vital Signs"

• A modern day warrior, Mean, mean stride, Todays Tom Sawyer, Mean, mean pride.
  • "Tom Sawyer"

Signals

• 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
  • "Subdivisions"

• We've got nothing to fear -- but fear itself? Not pain or failure, not fatal tragedy? Not the faulty units in this mad machinery? Not the broken contacts in emotional chemistry?
  • "The Weapon (Part II of Fear)"

• He's got a force field and a flexible plan He's got a date with fate in a black sedan He'll play fast forward for as long as he can But he won't need a bed he's a digital man
  • "Digital Man"

• The boy lies in the grass, unmoving Staring at the sky His mother starts to call him As a hawk goes soaring by And the boy pulls down his baseball cap And covers up his eyes
  • "The Analog Kid"

Grace Under Pressure

• 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
  • "Red Sector A"

• 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...
  • "Between the Wheels"

• One humanoid escapee an android on the run seeking freedom beneath the lonely desert sun
  • "The Body Electric"

• 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...
  • "The Enemy Within"

• 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 foot prints I remember-
  • "Afterimage"

Power Windows

• The big bang -- took and shook the world Shot down the rising sun the end was begun -- it would hit everyone When the chain reaction was done The big shots -- try to hold it back Fools try to wish it away The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say
  • "Manhattan Project"

• They shoot without shame In the name of a piece of dirt For a change of accent Or the colour of your shirt Better the pride that resides In a citizen of the world Than the pride that divides When a colourful rag is unfurled
  • "Territories"

• You can do a lot in a lifetime If you don't burn out too fast You can make the most of the distance First you need endurance First you've got to last
  • "Marathon"

• So much poison in power The principles get left out So much mind on the matter The spirit gets forgotten about
  • "Grand Designs"

• Dreams flow across the heartland Feeding on the fires Dreams transport desires Drive you when you're down Dreams transport the ones Who need to get out of town
  • "Middletown Dreams"

• Right to the heart of the matter Right to the beautiful part Illusions are painfully shattered Right where discovery starts In the secret wells of emotion Buried deep in our hearts
  • "Emotion Detector"

• We sometimes catch a window A glimpse of what's beyond Was it just imagination Stringing us along? More things than are dreamed about Unseen and unexplained We suspend our disbelief And we are entertained
  • "Mystic Rhythms"

Hold Your Fire

• I thought of time and distance The hardships of history I heard the hope and the hunger When China sang to me...
  • "Tai Shan"

• I let my past go too fast No time to pause If I could slow it all down Like some captain, whose ship runs aground I can wait until the tide comes around
  • "Time Stand Still"

Presto

• No hero in your tragedy No daring in your escape No salutes for your surrender Nothing noble in your fate Christ, what have you done?
  • "The Pass"

• I had a dream of a winter garden a midnight rendezvous. Silver, blue and frozen silence what a fool I was for you!
  • "Presto"

Roll The Bones

• We go out in the world and take our chances Fate is just the weight of circumstances That's the way that lady luck dances Roll the bones
  • "Roll The Bones"

• All around this great big world All the crap we had to take Bombs and basement fallout shelters All our lives at stake
  • "Heresy"

• Why are we here? Beacause we're here Roll the bones, roll the bones Why does it happen? Because it happens Roll the bones, roll the bones
  • "Roll The Bones"

• Well, I was only a kid, cruising around in a trance Prisoner of fate, victim of circumstance I was lined up for glory, but the tickets sold out in advance The way the big wheel spins
  • "The Big Wheel"

Counterparts

• A secret face -- a touch of grace A man must learn to give a little space A peaceful state -- a submissive trait A man must learn to gently dominate
  • "Animate"

• Young enough not to care too much About the way things used to be I'm young enough to remember the future -- The past has no claim on me
  • "Cut To The Chase"

• You and I, we are pressed into these solitudes Color and culture, language and race Just variations on a theme Islands in a much larger stream
  • "Alien Shore"

• There is a fine line Between love and illusion
  • "Between Sun and Moon"

Test For Echo

• I've got celestial mechanics To synchronize my stars Seasonal migrations -- daily variations World of the unlikely and bizarre
  • "Totem"

• I can learn to resist Anything but frustration I can learn to persist With anything but aiming low
  • "Resist"

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