Lyrical Response

[Gray Beard]

I wanted to be a spaceman, that's what I wanted to be
But now that I am a spaceman 
Nobody cares about me
Hey, Mother Earth, won't'cha bring me back down safely to the sea?
Around and around and around and around is all she ever say to me

[WhoTom]

Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along
I won't do anything wrong
Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along for a ride

[PastaJoe]

This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do“

[SinceThe70s]

I've had a Volvo and a Cadillac
I've driven everything in between
I like the feel driving down the road
But now I just cannot forget what I seen
This little number's gonna say goodbye
To all the gravity and unleaded fuels
Yeah my car's pretty good but
Space Ship One just rules

[Gugny]

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits

 

Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
 

Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

 

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

 

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...

 

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

 

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

 

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan
 

At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside

 

 

 

RIP, Neil Peart

[Gray Beard]

It is the night
My body's weak
I'm on the run
No time to sleep
I've got to ride
Ride like the wind
To be free again

 

And I've got such a long way to go (such a long way to go)
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind

[Gugny]

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

[SinceThe70s]

I set a course just east of Lyra
And northwest of Pegasus
Flew into the light of Deneb
Sailed across the Milky Way

[Gugny]

You can be the captain
And I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart

[Gray Beard]

He's a radio receiver
Tuned to factories and farms
He's a writer and ranger and a young boy bearing arms
He's got a problem with his powers
His weapons on patrol
He's got to walk a fine line
And keep his self-control

[WhoTom]

Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price
Almost free

[KD in CA]

Signals transmitted
Message received
Reaction making impact
Invisibly
 

Elemental telepathy
Exchange of energy
Reaction making contact
Mysteriously

 

Eye-to-I
Reaction burning hotter
Two-to-one
Reflection on the water
H-to-O
No flow without the other
Oh, but how
Do they make contact
With one another?

 

Electricity, biology?
Seems to me it's chemistry

[PastaJoe]

It's poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony

Mm, but she blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And failed me in biology, yeh yeh

[Bill from NYC]

My baby loves me, she gets a feeling so fine
And when she love me, she makes me know that she's mine
And when she kisses, I feel the fire get hot
She never misses, she gives it all that she's got
And when she asks me if everything is okay
I got my answer, the only thing I can say
I say yeh yeh, that's what I say
I say yeh yeh

[Gray Beard]

I think of all the education that I missed
But then my homework was never quite like this
Ow got it bad, got it bad, got it bad,
I'm hot for teacher

[SinceThe70s]

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all

[WhoTom]

I've got a blue-and-red Adidas bag and a humongous binder
I'm trying my best not to look like a minor niner
I went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man
Guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran

This is me in grade nine, baby, yeah, this is me in grade nine (this is me in grade nine)
This is me in grade nine, baby, this is me in grade nine

[Gray Beard]

I've got to keep my image
While I'm standing on the floor
If I drop upon my knees
It's just to keep them on my nose
You think that I'm not human
And my heart is made of stone
But I've never had no problems
'Cause my body's pretty strong

I'm a man yes I am and I can't help but love you so

[PastaJoe]

Well, you pretty women
Standing in line
Make love to you, baby
In an hour's time

 

Now I'm a man
I spell M-A-N, ooh

 

The line I shoot
Will never miss
Make love to you, baby
You can't resist

 

Now I'm a man
I spell M-A-N
Man

[SinceThe70s]

I'm a man yes I am and I can't help but love you so