Rush Lyrics

Album: Different Stages

Limelight Lyrics

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

 With insufficient tact

 One must put up barriers

 To keep oneself intact

 

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 Living in the limelight

 The universal dream

 For those who wish to seem

 Those who wish to be

 Must put aside the alienation

 Get on with the fascination

 The real relation

 The underlying theme

 

 Living in a fish eye lens

 Caught in the camera eye

 I have no heart to lie

 I can't pretend a stranger

 Is a long-awaited friend

 

 All the world's indeed a stage

 And we are merely players

 Performers and portrayers

 Each another's audience

 Outside the gilded cage

 

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