Favorite Songs

Although I like Rush before, a good friend turned me on to more of their songs. I'm really beginning to think of them as a new fave band. A lot of their lyrics really speak to me ~ like I was the one sitting down to write them.

Thank you, my friend. :P

The first song, "Time Stand Still" (from the album "Hold Your Fire" in 1987), has to be my number one song right now. There's so many aspects of my life where I wish time would just stop so I can savor the moment. So I can mentally take a picture and remember the moment for a lifetime.

I turn my back to the wind

To catch my breath

Before I start off again.

Driven on without a moment to spend

To pass an evening with a drink and a friend

I let my skin get too thin

I'd like to pause
No matter what I pretend

Like some pilgrim

Who learns to transcend

Learns to live as if each step was the end

(Time stand still)

I'm not looking back

But I want to look around me now

(Time stand still)

See more of the people and the places that surround me now

Freeze this moment a little bit longer

Make each sensation a little bit stronger

Experience slips away

Experience slips away

I turn my face to the sun

Close my eyes

Let my defences down

All those wounds that I can't get unwound

I let my past go too fast

No time to pause

If I could slow it all down

Like some captain, whose ship runs aground

I can wait until the tide comes around

(Time stand still)

I'm not looking back

But I want to look around me now

(Time stand still)

See more of the people and the places that surround me now

Freeze this moment a little bit longer

Make each impression a little bit stronger

Freeze this motion a little bit longer

The innocence slips away

The innocence slips away...

Summer's going fast, nights growing colder

Children growing up, old friends growing older

Freeze this moment a little bit longer

Make each impression a little bit stronger

Experience slips away

Experience slips away...

The innocence slips away

The second song, "Losing It" (from the album "Signals" in 1982), perfectly describes how I felt after the last dance class I was able to attend. I remember hearing the applause. I remember limping across the classroom floor. Even reading these lyrics today, the tears spring to my eyes remembering that last day 19 years ago...

The dancer slows her frantic pace

In pain and desperation

Her aching limbs and downcast face

Aglow with perspiration

Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire

With just the briefest pause

The flooding through her memory

The echoes of old applause

She limps across the floor

And closes her bedroom door...

The writer stare with glassy eyes

Defies the empty page

His beard is white, his face is lined

And streaked with tears of rage

Thirty years ago, how the words would flow

With passion and precision

But now his mind is dark and dulled

By sickness and indecision

And he stares out the kitchen door

Where the sun will rise no more...

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

Than never to have known it

For you, the blind who once could see

The bell tolls for thee...