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

[Gray Beard]

Sugar pie, honey bunch
You know that I love you
I can't help myself
I love you and nobody else

[Bill from NYC]

Only you know and I know
All the love we've got to show,
So don't refuse to believe it
By reading too many meanings.

'Cause you know that I mean what I say,
So don't go and take me the wrong way.
You know you can't go on getting your own way,
'Cause if you do, it's going to get you someday.

[SinceThe70s]

If I could
Baby, I'd give you my world
Open up
Everything's waiting for you

 

You can go your own way

[WhoTom]

"Take me to another place", she said
"Take me to another time
Run with me across the oceans
Float me on a silver cloud"

 

If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now

[Bill from NYC]

If I could build my whole world around you,

I'd make your eyes the morning sun.

I'd put so much love where there is sorrow,

I'd put joy where there's never been none.

Then I'd give my love to you,

For you to keep for the rest of your life,

Oh and happiness would surely be ours,

And that would be all right, oh yes it would.

[Gray Beard]

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright, bright
Bright sunshiny day

[BillsFanNC]

It's such a cloudy day
Seems we'll never see the sun
I feel the day is all uncertainty
Burning in the moment, trapped by the desperation
Between how it is and how it ought to be
Between how it is and how it ought to be

[Gugny]

And if you say to me tomorrow
Oh what fun it all would be
Then what's to stop us, pretty baby
But what is and what should never be

[WhoTom]

I don't know what to say about it,
When all you ears have turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?
That's the way
That's the way it oughtta be
Oh don't you know now
Mama said, mama said, that's the way it's gonna stay, yeah

[Gray Beard]

I went walking the other day and
Everything was going fine
Met a little boy named Billy Joe
And then I almost lost my mind

 

Mama said there'll be days like this
There'll be days like this, my mama said

[Gugny]

My mama said
That your life is a gift
And my mama said
There's much weight you will lift

And my mama said
Leave those bad boys alone
And my mama said
Be home before the dawn

And my mama said
You can be rich or poor
But my mama said
You can be big or small

 

But I'm always on the run (always on the run)
But I'm always on the run

[WhoTom]

We could jam in Joe's Garage
His mama was screamin'
His dad was mad
We was playin' the same old song
In the afternoon 'n sometimes we would
Play it all night long
It was all we knew, 'n easy too
So we wouldn't get it wrong
All we did was bend the string like...

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

You're sweet as a honey bee
But like a honey bee stings
You've gone and left my heart in pain
All you left is our favorite song
The one we danced to all night long
It used to bring sweet memories
Of a tender love that used to be

 

Now it's the same old song
But with a different meaning
Since you been gone
It's the same old song
But with a different meaning
Since you been gone
I, oh I

[Gray Beard]

Get yourself cooler, lay yourself low
Coincidental murder, with nothing to show
When the judge's constipation go to his head
And his wife's aggravation, you're soon enough dead
It's the same old story, same old song and dance, my friend

[Bill from NYC]

Judge said "Son this gonna cost you some time."

Dupree said "Judge, you know that crossed my mind."

Judge said "Fact, it's gonna cost you your life."

Dupree said "Judge, you know that seems to me to be about right."

 

[WhoTom]

My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln"

 

[Gray Beard]

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
(Go Granny, go, Granny, go, Granny, go)
Has a pretty little flowerbed of white gardenias;
(Go Granny, go, Granny, go, Granny, go)
But parked in a rickety old garage,
There's a brand new shiny super stocked Dodge.
And ev'rybody's sayin' that there's nobody meaner than 
The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.

[Bill from NYC]

I know all about you, your childhood days,
Your mom and dad, your pretty face.
Mean mistreater, if you need me,
I'm needin' you, to set me free

[Gray Beard]

If you love me let me know 
If you don't then let me go
I can't take another minute of a day without you in it
If you love me, let it be
If you don't then set me free
Take the chains away that keep me lovin' you

[WhoTom]

Set me free why don't ya babe
Get out my life why don't ya babe
You really don't love me
You just keep me hangin' on