The Camera Eye lyrics

Song information

Artist: Rush
Album: Moving Pictures

Lyrics

I. grim-faced and forbidding
Their faces closed tight
An angular mass of new yorkers
Pacing in rhythm
Race the oncoming night
They chase through the streets of manhattan
Head-first humanity
Pause at a light
Then flow through the streets of the city

They seem oblivious
To a soft spring rain
Like an english rain
So light, yet endless
From a leaden sky

The buildings are lost
In their limitless rise
My feet catch the pulse
And the purposeful stride

I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
The focus is sharp in the city

Ii
Wide-angle watcher
On life's ancient tales
Steeped in the history of london

Green and grey washes
In a wispy white veil
Mist in the streets of westminster
Wistful and weathered
The pride still prevails
Alive in the streets of the city

Are they oblivious
To this quality?
A quality
Of light unique to
Every city's streets

Pavements may teem
With intense energy
But the city is calm
In this violent sea

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