The Camera Eye Lyrics - Moving Pictures - Rush

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 

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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 

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? 

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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 

I feel the sense of possibilities 

I feel the wrench of hard realities 

The focus is sharp in the city