Neil Peart

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Neil Peart (born Sept 12, 1952) Canadian writer, lyricist, and drummer for the band Rush.

• You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice,
  But if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
  - Freewill
  
  

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

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

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

• 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...
  - Natural Science
  
  

• 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 dream might be.
  - Something for Nothing
  
  

• 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
  
  

• All the same we take our chances,
  Laughed at by time, tricked by circumstances,
  Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose,
  The more that things change, the more they stay the same.
  - Circumstances
  
  

• I'm not looking back, but i want to look around me now.
  - Time Stand Still
  
  

• Today is different, and tomorrow the same.
  It's hard to take the world the way that it came.
  Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.
  Too many captains keep steering us wrong.
  It's hard to take the heat.
  It's hard to lay blame.
  To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames.
  - Second Nature
  
  

• Faith is cold as ice.
  Why are little ones born only to suffer
  for the want of immunity, or a bowl of rice?
  Well, who would hold a price on the heads of the innocent children
  if there's some immortal power to control the dice?
  - Roll The Bones
  
  

• You move me, you move me.
  with your buildings and your eyes
  Autumn woods and Winter skies.
  You move me, you move me.
  Open sea and city lights, busy streets and dizzy heights.
  You call me, you call me.
  - The Analog Kid
  
  

• The middle aged madonna
  calls her neighbor on the phone.
  Day by day, the seasons pass
  and leave her life alone.
  But she'll go walking out that door
  on some bright afternoon
  to go and paint big cities
  from a lonely attic room.
  - Middletown Dreams
  
  

• Miracles will have their claimers
  More will bow to Rome
  He and she are in the house
  But there's only me at home.
  - Anagram
  
  

• I feel the sense of possibilities
  I feel the wrench of hard realities
  The focus is sharp in the city
  -The Camera Eye
  
  

• 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
  
  

• Cast in this unlikely role
  Ill-equipped to act
  With insufficient tact
  One must put up barriers
  To keep oneself intact
  - Limelight
  
  

• The world weighs on my shoulders
  But what am I to do?
  You sometimes drive me crazy
  But I worry about you
  I know it makes no difference
  To what you’re going through
  But I see the tip of the iceberg
  And I worry about you...
  - Distant Early Warning
  
  

• Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasies
  But most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be
  Sadder still to watch it die, then never to have known it
  For you, the blind who once could see
  The bell tolls for thee...
  - Losing It
  
  

• I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here?
  Do I hope or do I fear?
  For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight.
  Are we the last ones left alive?
  Are we the only human beings to survive?
  - Red Sector A
  
  

• Wheels can take you around.
  Wheels can cut you down.
  We can go from boom to bust.
  From dreams to a bowl of dust.
  We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to "Brother can you spare...Another war."
  Another wasteland.
  And another lost generation.
  - Between The Wheels
  
  

• They say there are strangers who threaten us
  In our immigrants and infidels
  They say there is strangeness too dangerous
  In our theaters and bookstore shelves
  That those who know what's best for us
  Must rise and save us from ourselves.
  - Witch Hunt
  
  

• Life is just a candle, and a dream must give it flame...
  - The Fountain of Lamneth
  
  

• Danger plus survival equals fun.
  - From A Work in Progress
  
  

• All the busy little creatures
  chasing out their destinies.
  Living in their pools
  they soon forget about the sea...
  - Natural Science
  
  

• "A few guys with guns can spoil everything."
  - The Masked Rider
  
  

• "Everything in moderation, with occasional excess."
  - Ghost Rider