Rush

Limelight

Living on a lighted stage
approaches the unreal
for those who think and feel
in touch with some reality
beyond the guilded cage.
Cast in this unlikely role
and ill-equipped to act,
with insufficient tact,
one must put up barriers
to keep oneself intact.

[chorus]
Living in the limelight
the universal dream
for those who wish to seem.
Those who wish to be,
must put aside the alienation,
get on with the fascination,
the real relation,
the underlying theme.

Living in a fisheye lens,
caught in the camera eye,
I have no heart to lie.
I can't pretend a stranger is
a long awaited friend.
All the world's indeed a stage
and we are merely players,
performers and portrayers,
each another's audience
outside the guilded cage.

[chorus]