Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres (Part 2)

From Rush's 6th album "Hemispheres" Also Rush's last album with Metal on it
I. prelude
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 ...

Ii. apollo: bringer of wisdom
'i bring truth and understanding
I bring wit, and wisdom fair
Precious gifts beyond compare
We can build a world of wonder
I can make you all aware'

'i will find you food and shelter
Show you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter storm
You can live in grace and comfort
In the world that you transform'

The people were delighted
Coming forth to claim their prize
They ran to build their cities
And converse among the wise

But one day the streets fell silent
Yet they knew not what was wrong
The urge to build these fine things
Seemed not to be so strong

The wise men were consulted
And the bridge of death was crossed
In quest of dionysus
To find out what they had lost ...

Iii. dionysus: bringer of love
'i bring love to give you solace
In the darkness of the night
In the heart's eternal light
You need only trust your feelings
Only love can steer you right'

'i bring laughter, I bring music
I bring joy and I bring tears
I will soothe your primal fears
Throw off those chains of reason
And your prison disappears'

The cities were abandoned
And the forests echoed song
They danced and lived as brothers
They knew love could not be wrong

Food and wine they had aplenty
And they slept beneath the stars
The people were contented
And the gods watched from afar

But the winter fell upon them
And it caught them unprepared
Bringing wolves and cold starvation
And the hearts of men despaired ...

Iv. armageddon: the battle of heart and mind
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 figh
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

V. cygnus: bringer of balance
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 atonished
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'

The sphere: a kind of dream
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

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[MasterofGuitarsolos]

@pluckhutma Dont get me wrong i like this album, but i dont like circumstances, its kinda boring. 2112 is my favorite rush album, and my favorite album of all time, Signals and Permanent Waves are pretty good also

[ImaginaryDay90]

I start listening Rush a week ago... and I can't stop! Hemispheres, Permanent waves and farewell to kings are truely masterpieces! Neil Peart's Drums and Geddy lee's Bass are amazing! THIS IS ART!

[MegaVergan]

This song is epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CmdrRipley]

@MasterofGuitarsolos Are you kidding? i ADORE circumstances <3

[xcadence1x]

I know I'm out of the loop guys but I'm just now getting my first true Rush experience, by listening to one of their albums all the way through and getting lost in it. I chose Hemispheres to be the one I'd do it with first because I heard a friend talking about it while we watched Beyond the Lighted Stage. All day I've been lost in this particular 8 minutes of the album and I can't stop listening to it over and over. It's like a religious experience. Rush is the real deal.

[nikogg93]

Everytime I hear Rush's slbums I think that the one I'm listening to is my favourite

[hiroshima97]

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sorry. i was just wiping the jizz off my keyboard

[melkorsring]

gods the best

roads together

[melkorsring]

gods the best

roads

[melkorsring]

gods the best

[TheSupernaturalCow]

Oh god, this song sounds so much better than 2112, which I thought sounded awesome enough. Rush is godly.

[peris666]

thank you for uploading it, thank you, thank you, than you. Rush´s masterpiece, once again thank you.