Song by Rush

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I've stood upon my mountaintop
And shouted at the sky
Walked above the pavement
With my sense amplified
I get this feeling...

All my nerves are naked wires
Tender to the touch
Sometimes super sensitive
But who can care too much?
I get this feeling...

Scars of pleasure
Scars of pain
Atmospheric changes
Make them sensitive again

Each emotional injury
Leaves behind its mark
Sometimes they come tumbling out
Like shadows in the dark
I get this feeling...

When I think about all I have seen
And all I'll never see
When I think about the people
Who have opened up to me
I get this feeling...

Snow falls deep around my house
And holds the winter light
I've heard the lions hunting
In the Serengeti night
I get this feeling...

Forests turned to factories
And river, sea, and sky
Hungry child in the desert
And the flies that cloud her eyes
I get this feeling...

Pleasure leaves a fingerprint
As surely as mortal pain
In memories they resonate
And echo back again...

Scars of pleasure
Scars of pain
Atmospheric changes
Make them sensitive again

Now this one I don't recognize, but then the last CD I got was 'Test for Echo'...

This one is off of "Presto," released around 1989. It is a rather underrated album, but still good IMO.

What songs by Rush are you familiar with?

Cool, Scars! I like it a lot!

It's not a really significant song, but I think my favorite off Presto is "Anagram For Mongo" (and only partly because of the Blazing Saddles reference in the title):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mch_peXRFIM[/youtube]

There's a snake coming out of the darkness
Parade from paradise
End the need for Eden
Chase the dreams of merchandise
There is tic and toc in atomic
Leaders make a deal
The cosmic is largely comic
A con they couldn't conceal

There is no safe seat at the feast
Take your best stab at the beast
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Raise the art to resistance
Danger, dare to be grand
Pride reduced to humble pie
Diamonds down to sand
Take heart from earth and weather
The brightness of new birth
Take heart from the harvest
Shave the harvest from the earth

Reasoning is partly insane
Image just an eyeless game
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Miracles will have their claimers
More will bow to Rome
He and she are in the house
But there's only me at home
Rose is a rose of splendor
Posed to respond in the end
Lonely things like nights, I find,
End finer in a friend

I hear in the rate of her heart
A tear in the heat of the art
The night turns thin
The saint turns to sin

For an overall favorite Rush song, though, I think I'll have to go back to Signals, and "The Body Electric":

One humanoid escapee,
One android on the run,
Seeking freedom beneath
The lonely desert sun,
Trying to change its program,
Trying to change the mode, crack the code,
Images conflicting into data overload

1001001
SOS
1001001
In distress
100100...

Memory banks unloading,
Bytes breaking to bits,
Unit One's in trouble
And it's scared out of its wits
Guidance systems break down,
A struggle to exist, to resist,
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist

1001001
SOS
1001001
In distress
100100...

It replays each of the days,
A hundred years of routines,
Bows its head and prays
To the Mother of All Machines,
All machines...