ฟังเพลงCygnus X-1: Book II Hemispheres (Live in London - Permanent Waves 1980 Tour)

Song: Cygnus X-1: Book II Hemispheres

Artist: Rush

Lyrics: Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson & Geddy Lee

When our weary world was young

The struggle of the ancients first began

The gods of love and reason

Sought alone to rule the fate of man

They battled through the ages

But still neither force would yield

The people were divided

Every soul a battlefield

Every soul a battlefield

The universe divided

As the heart and mind collided

With the people left unguided

For so many troubled years

In a cloud of doubts and fears

Their world was torn asunder into hollow

Hemispheres

Some fought themselves, some fought each other

Most just followed one another

Lost and aimless like their brothers

For their hearts were so unclear

And the truth could not appear

Their spirits were divided into blinded

Hemispheres

Some who did not fight

Brought tales of old to light

'My Rocinante sailed by night

On her final flight'

To the heart of Cygnus' fearsome force

We set our course

Spiralled through that timeless space

To this immortal place

I have memory and awareness

But I have no shape or form

As a disembodied spirit

I am dead and yet unborn

I have passed into Olympus

As was told in tales of old

To the city of Immortals

Marble white and purest gold

I see the gods in battle rage on high

Thunderbolts across the sky

I cannot move, I cannot hide

I feel a silent scream begin inside

Then all at once the chaos ceased

A stillness fell, a sudden peace

The warriors felt my silent cry

And stayed their struggle, mystified

Apollo was astonished

Dionysus thought me mad

But they heard my story further

And they wondered and were sad

Looking down from Olympus

On a world of doubt and fear

Its surface splintered into

Sorry Hemispheres

They sat a while in silence

Then they turned at last to me

'We will call you Cygnus

The god of Balance you shall be'

We can walk our road together

If our goals are all the same

We can run alone and free

If we pursue a different aim

Let the truth of love be lighted

Let the love of truth shine clear

Sensibility, armed with sense and liberty

With the heart and mind united in a single perfect sphere