Rush Lyrics

Album: Different Stages

Natural Science Lyrics

[1. Tide Pools]

 

 When the ebbing tide retreats

 Along the rocky shoreline

 It leaves a trail of tidal pools

 In a short-lived galaxy

 Each microcosmic planet

 A complete society

 

 A simple kind mirror

 To reflect upon our own

 All the busy little creatures

 Chasing out their destinies

 Living in their pools

 They soon forget about the sea...

 

 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

 

 [2. Hyperspace]

 

 A quantum leap forward

 In time and in space

 The universe learned to expand

 

 The mess and the magic

 Triumphant and tragic

 A mechanized world out of hand

 

 Computerized clinic

 For superior cynics

 Who dance to a synthetic band

 

 In their own image

 Their world is fashioned

 No wonder they don't understand

 

 [3. Permanent Waves]

 

 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

 

 Art as expression

 Not as market campaigns

 Will still capture our imaginations

 Given the same

 State of integrity

 It will surely help us along

 

 The most endangered species

 The honest man

 Will still survive annihilation

 Forming a world

 State of integrity

 Sensitive, open and strong

 

 Wave after wave will flow with the tide

 And bury the world as it does

 Tide after tide will flow and recede

 Leaving life to go on as it was...