Thank Your Stars You’re Not that Way

Carnies icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 05 from the Clockwork Angels LP by Rush icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )
“Carnies” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

Rush's "Clockwork Angels" album cover. [Formatted]

Seven Cities of Gold icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 07 from the Clockwork Angels LP)
“Seven Cities of Gold” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12
Wish Them Well icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 11 from the Clockwork Angels LP)
“Wish Them Well” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

Away You Will Stray and Never Come Back to Those Who Love and Made You

For Those Who Love to Live icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 02 from the Fighting LP by Thin Lizzy icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )
“For Those Who Love to Live” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

Thin Lizzy's "Fighting" album cover. [Formatted]

Suicide icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 03 from the Fighting LP)
“Suicide” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12
Wild One icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 04 from the Fighting LP)
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Nowhere Else is the Dreamer or the Misfit So Alone

Subdivisions icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 01 from the Signals LP by Rush icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions, all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided in the mass production zone

Nowhere else is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

Subdivisions
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out

Subdivisions
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out

Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats and get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere to relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights

Subdivisions
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out

Subdivisions
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out

Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

And Law is Just a Path to Herd Us Over the Cliff

Dead End Friends icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 04 from the eponymous LP by Them Crooked Vultures icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

I drive all alone—at night—I drive all alone
I don’t know what I’m headed for

I follow the road—blind—until the road’s dead end
The night is in my veins—it’s calling me—racing along these arteries

And law is just a path to herd us over the cliff

I follow the road at night just hoping to find which puzzle piece fell out of me

I know who you are and I open the door and climb in
Hold me real close and do it again
I ache for the touch of my dead end friends

And I have got to know is it dead at the end of the road?
I can tell by that look in your eyes
We’re the same, my dead end friends and I

We drive on alone and our never-ending begins
Sweet is the curse just out of reach—it awakens the dead end part of me

And no more wondering—it’s just me and my dead end friends again

Dead end friends