VICTOR
2024 Reissue
Original Album Release: January 9th, 19962024 Reissue
Reissue Album Release: August 9th, 2024
2024 Reissue Liner Notes
INTRODUCTION BY ALEX LIFESON
One seldom gets a chance to revisit a piece of work that you know could be better, and I guess that's a good thing; what's done is done, but when that opportunity comes along, why not?
Victor was a defining experience for me, and I learned a lot about my skills as a songwriter, instrumentalist, producer, and engincer. Over the years, I'd often thought, "What would I change if I could?" The songs are fixed and you love them for what they are, but much has changed in the world of recording, and when the prospect of rereleasing came up, I took it as an opportunity to have another chance at remixing.
Once I dove into the remix, I decided that it wasn't about mixing a new album but rather making the existing one sound better. During the original recording, I tracked up multilayers of guitars to create walls of sound, but when I laid out all the tracks anew. I felt there was room to clear some space and provide a bit more clarity and fidelity. I also added four tracks of demos, three from around the same time and one from the Clockwork Angels mixing sessions, when I had a couple of rental guitars, my MacBook, and some herbal inspiration to keep me company.
The trippy "Cherry Lopez Lullaby" was the happy result from that noodle session in my hotel room. I also had my good friend Jim MacLellan play drums on a couple of the tracks. They are demos and sound like it, but they re such a cool representation of the moment.
It's how all these songs came to life, and revisiting them again reminded me of how lucky I am.
ESSAY BY RAY WAWRZYNIAK
author of Rush Gigs: Found on the Studio Walls and in Concert Halls
In February of 1996, while promoting the release of Victor, Alex Lifeson declared, "I wanted to do something that would have a lasting impact." Almost thirty years later, now in 2024, as the album celebrates its debut appearance on vinyl, Alex Lifeson can rest assured that Victor has most certainly had the impact he had anticipated all those years ago.
The spring of 1994 found Alex Lifeson in an unfamiliar situation. Specifically, the acclaimed guitarist with Rush found himself staring at an eighteen-month period that was- surprisingly- free of obligations. No studio time booked. No world tour looming. Rush had just concluded their "Counterparts" tour in early May of that year, and, with his bandmates choosing to spend that same hiatus following either domestic or musical pursuits, Alex had to decide if his time off should be spent on golf courses, or in his home studio. Thankfully, he chose the latter.
With his own Lerxst Sound home studio at his disposal, in October of 1994, Alex began work on what would ultimately become his first and- so far- only solo record. This decision, though, had nothing to do with any discontentment he felt within the confines of Rush. Rather, as Alex noted time and again in various interviews when promoting Victor's original release, "This was simply an opportunity for me to do something, to set a goal and a challenge for myself and to see it through."
Envisioning an album filled with musical variety, and thematically encompassed around the dark side of love, Alex began with a clean slate. No songs that had been idly sitting in a back catalogue, or earmarked for presentation to his Rush bandmates were considered. Instead, Alex approached everything fresh, relying on his trademark, spontaneous, instinctive guitar playing and songwriting to guide what would ultimately manifest itself onto the songs found here on Victor.
While Rush fans- or, more specifically, Alex Lifeson fans- may have envisioned an Alex Lifeson solo record to be an instrumental tour-de-force, or some sort of "guitar hero" record, Victor instead offers one curve ball after another. Soon after having finished the project, Alex himself recognized that Victor didn't necessarily represent a 180 degree turn away from Rush, but rather, a "...90 degree detour out into left field." "Don't Care", the opening track here on side A, effectively lays the groundwork for that detour.
Written with a temperament and aggression not necessarily associated with the affable and humorous disposition that Alex Lifeson fans have come to know and admire, "Don't Care" offers an immediate glimpse into the dark and unsettling side of love that Alex claimed to be striving to capture. The track introduces fans not only to Alex Lifeson outside of the context of Rush, but also to Edwin, who is the featured vocalist on five of the songs here on Victor. Alex first met Edwin when the latter's band, I Mother Earth, served as the opening act at the final show on Rush's 1994 "Counterparts" tour.
While Alex's soaring guitar solo on the album's second track, "Promise", is one of the early highlights of the album, "Start Today", the third track on side A, elevates the album exponentially. It is here that Alex introduces listeners to the sheer force of nature that is vocalist Lisa Dalbello. Lisa was a Juno award winner, and seven-time Juno nominee, including multiple nominations for Canadian female vocalist of the year. Here, on "Start Today", it is easy to see why she was so deserving of those prestigious nominations. "Start Today" is the track on Victor in which your stereo speaker system should be pushed to its limits!
Alex spared himself the rigors of writing lyrics while creating two instrumentals that appear on Victor. The first of those is the track that follows "Start Today", entitled, "Mr. X." As alluded to previously, fans may have envisioned an Alex Lifeson solo album to be one on which Alex would allow himself to stretch out and enjoy one indulgent moment after another. Well, "Mr. X" does just that. Perhaps Alex overlooked the inclusion of this jaw-dropping instrumental when, in February of 1996, he told Bruce Adamson of Canadian Musician magazine, "I don't feel that I have to prove anything. I didn't want to make a record that would be typically made by someone like me, from a band like Rush, where you'd expect 50 minutes of all this textural stuff and wailing away. On solos, for instance, I intentionally pulled back." With all due respect to those intentions, "Mr. X" offers enough "wailing away" to convince those who somehow did need proof why Alex Lifeson sits among the pantheon of guitar greats. "Mr. X" is nothing less than a musical master class from a world class musician.
While the opportunity to just play was second nature, Alex embarked on a new endeavor when conceiving of Victor: authoring an entire album's worth of lyrics. While choosing to write songs about love certainly could not be considered unchartered territory, focusing instead on its reciprocal- love's dark side- was one of the bigger challenges Alex tackled head-on. This was a major responsibility for someone who had never found himself in the role of primary lyricist. With nearly thirty years of hindsight now to gauge Alex's success in lyrically conveying a unified theme of the dark sides of love, there's no denying that the consistency with which that theme permeates the album is one of Victor's many strengths.
"I needed to push myself. I needed to prove to myself that I was capable of taking on a project of this size. I'm really a bit lazy..." It's mind-boggling to think that someone who considers himself to be- in Alex's own words- "lazy" by nature, could conceive of a work of art that is filled with as much variety, dynamics and passion as Victor. Yet this self-imposed challenge proved to have the exact impact that Alex had hoped for when he envisaged Victor. While the demand for Victor's appearance on vinyl speaks of its lasting impact on you and I, its greatest impact was perhaps the one felt by its creator. As Alex told the 'Rockline' radio show listeners in early 1996, "I pushed myself much harder than I think I've ever done before. I've come out of it with a new sense of who I am and what I want to accomplish, and a whole new work ethic." That impact- that "whole new work ethic"- would manifest itself in the many experiences Alex found himself enjoying, post-Victor. For example: serving as a producer for multiple, up-and-coming bands; the dozens of times, post-Victor, that Alex found himself in a studio, lending his six-string skills to a song for another band or artist; or, the greater sense of self-confidence with which Alex carried himself within the confines of Rush. Therefore, one can conclude that Alex Lifeson did, in fact, "...build upon all he learned...", and was most definitely, positively impacted by his experience creating Victor.
REISSUE CREDITSRemixed by Alex Lifeson
Remastered by Harry Hess (HBomb Mastering)
Audio & AV Archivist: Yona Shereck
Liner Notes by Alex Lifeson and Ray Wawrzyniak
A&R: Jason Jones
A&R Administration: Susanne Savage
Executive Producer / Artist Liaison: Andy Curran
Product Manager: Andy Hawke
Packaging Manager: Kristin Attaway
Art Supervision: Rory Wilson
Art Direction: David Calcano
Package Design: Alberto Belandria, Eduardo Braun, Lindsay Lee, and Diana Villena for Fantoons
Photography: Andrew MacNaughtan
Project Assistance: Sheryl Farber & Sam Stone
Special thanks to Jason Kiein, Sal Fazzari, Adrian Battiston, Gilles Godard, Tom Leighton, Ryan Cain, Chuck Bliziotis, Chris Price
Excerpts from "Victor" from the Collected Poems of W.H. Auden, used with permission from Random House, Inc.
Tracks 12-15 © 2024 Lerxt Music Inc., administered by Anthem Entertainment L.P.
© 2024 Lerxst Music Inc.
ORIGINAL CREDITSAlex Lifeson - Guitar, bass, mandola, keyboards, programming, vocals, yelling
Edwin - Vocals
Bill Bell: Black Hole guitar, twelve-string guitar, guitar, E-Bow, wah guitar, slide guitar, wobble, background vocals
Blake Manning: Drums, darbuka
Dalbello: Vocals (Track 3)
Peter Cardinali: Bass (Tracks 4, 7 & 10)
Adrian Zivojinovich: Programming (Tracks 5 & 9)
Les Claypool: Bass (Track 9)
Colleen Allen: Horns (Track 10)
Produced by Alex Lifeson
Recorded by Alex Lifeson
At Lerxst Sound, Oct. 1994 - July 1995, Assisted by Bill Bell
Mixed by Alex Lifeson
At McClear Pathe, Toronto, Assisted by Denis Tougas
Arrangements by Alex Lifeson
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, Maine
Management by Ray Danniels, SRO, Toronto
Executive Production by Lerxst
Art Direction by Andrew MacNaughtan
Photography by Andrew MacNaughtan
Design by Megan Oldfield, Coolaide Design
Edwin appears courtesy of Capital Records, Inc.
Dalbello appears courtesy of EMI Electrola Gmbh., Germany
Les Claypool appears courtesy of Interscope Records, Inc.
Special thanks to nobody in particular.
Grateful acknowledgements for the technical assistance of Coll Audio, Saved by Technology, P.R.S. Guitars, Zurba, DOD Digitech, Dean Markley Strings, and of course, The Omega Concern.
Dedicated to Charlene for her inspiration, spirit and loving support.
In Memory of Randy Knox
© 1996 Atlantic Records © 1996 Anthem Entertainment
Articles
Return of the Six-String Beast - Canadian Musician Magazine, June 1995 Alex Lifeson Goes It Alone With Victor - Guitar Shop Magazine, February 1996 VICTORious - Rock N' Roll Reporter, February 1996 Rush Guitarist, Alex Lifeson Talks About His Other Identity...Victor - Metronome Magazine, March 1996
Singles
Don't Care Promise I Am The Spirit
Track Listing
1. Don't Care (4:04)
2. Promise (5:44)
3. Start Today (3:48)
4. Mr. X (2:21)
5. At The End (6:07)
6. Sending Out A Warning (4:11)
7. Shut Up Shuttin' Up (4:02)
8. Strip And Go Naked (3:57)
9. The Big Dance (4:14)
10. Victor (6:25)
11. I Am The Spirit (5:31)
Reissue Bonus Tracks (Instrumentals)
12. Cherry Lopez Lullabye (3:22)
13. Serbs (3:46)
14. Kroove (4:52)
15. Banjo Bob (4:10)
Don't Care
Lyrics & Music: Alex Lifeson
Shut up and turn off the light
I'll take you deep right through the night
Just leave before you're in my sight
'Cause I don't need another fight
And I don't need your sympathy
You'll get no tender love from me
Kneel before me on your knee
Do it hard- make me free
Do it hard- make me free
Do it- make me free
Do it hard- make me free
Don't want your pity
Don't want your care
Don't care for giving
Don't care for fair
Don't want your kindness
Don't want your heart
Don't care for wanting
Don't care for smart
I'll come to you from behind
You know my touch will not be kind
You'll feel my loveless power bind
No feelings here that you can find
Between your legs I will lay
On your back you better stay
I'm gonna fuck you night and day
Do it hard- make me pay
Do it hard- make me pay
Do it hard- make me pay
Do it hard- make me pay
Do it hard
Don't want your pity
Don't want your care
Don't care for giving
Don't care for fair
Don't want your kindness
Don't want your heart
Don't care for wanting
Don't care for smart
I don't need your sympathy
You'll get no tender love from me
Just kneel before me on your knee
Do it hard- make me free
Do it hard- make me free
Do it hard- please make me free
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, bass, keyboards, programming
Blake Manning: Drums
Edwin: Vocals
Promise
Lyrics: Alex Lifeson
Music: Alex Lifeson & Bill Bell
One more glass
A million more days
One more smoke
Release me from my ways
Break the mold
Break your back
Break the promise you made
Seek the world now
Don't look back
Make your promise today
Leave the safety
Leave this life
Leave before it's too late
It's your only chance
Don't pretend romance
Keep the new promise you made
What if I wasn't so scared?
Why can't I be brave?
I've forgotten all that we've shared
You can't give me what I crave
One more glass
Take another pill
One more day
I feel like I could kill
What if you let me walk away?
You think it's me who needs to be saved
Your life a tragic, self-centered play
You never gave me what I craved
What I want
You can never give
What you want
My dead life to live
Break the mold
Break your back
Break the promise you made
Seek the world now
Don't look back
Make your promise today
Leave the safety
Leave this life
Leave before it's too late
It's your only chance
Don't pretend romance
Keep the new promise you made
Break the mold
Break your back
Break the promise you made
Leave the safety
Leave this life
Leave before it's too late
Seek the world now
Don't look back
Make your promise today
KEEP THE PROMISE YOU MADE
KEEP THE PROMISE YOU MADE
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, bass, keyboards
Bill Bell: Black Hole guitar Blake Manning: Drums
Edwin: Vocals
Start Today
Lyrics & Music: Alex Lifeson
I need you to hold me tightly in your arms
I need you to show me if I might be wrong
I am pink and you are blue
Can I trust my whole life to you?
Just don't take me for a fool
When I need to depend on you
I am not your part-time job
What you get is what you are
You can hurt like no one can
You're such a child for such a man
You need strength, you need to take a stand
Just stop looking to me for a helping hand
When you?re ready I will be here
I can help you lose your fear
You better stand up on your feet
If you ever want to feel my heat
Clear your mind of those things gone by
You can't change the past, why even try
You can build upon all you've learned
You can start today
No one said it wouldn't be this hard
When you share, prepare to give a lot
Just remember when you look at me
You are you and I am me
When you're ready I will be here
I can help you lose your fear
You better stand up on your feet
If you ever want to feel my heat
Clear your mind of those things gone by
You can't change the past, why even try
Look ahead to those better days
Make the effort, it always pays
We can build upon all we've learned
We can start today
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, bass, keyboards
Bill Bell: Twelve-string guitar Blake Manning: Drums
Dalbello: Vocals
Mr. X
Music: Alex Lifeson
Instrumental
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, keyboards, programming
Peter Cardinali: Bass
Blake Manning: Drums
At The End
Lyrics: Alex Lifeson
Music: Alex Lifeson & Adrian Zivojinovich
He opens the books-looks at the scenes from yesterday
How they laughed and loved and lived before they grew old and grey
Now he sits alone in his room, and the clock ticks away
Together they enjoyed all life's beauty and all its fears
The lonely cry of his soul falls only on his ears
Each page's photo marked with the stain of his tears
He didn't know what to do
He didn't know what might come
Nothing was all that was left to him
Nothing was left when she was gone
The heart has a memory so strong
It remembers every right and every wrong
On those pages of his long, lonely life
He can only see his wife
He said 'Pluck out my eyes'
He said 'Plug up my ears'
He said 'Silence my tongue'
He said 'Take away my empty years'
One last wish
To see her face
One last breath
He's calling out to death
One last look up at the sun
As he picks up the gun
As he steadies the gun
As he finally aims the gun
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, keyboards, programming, vocals
Adrian Zivojinovich: Programming
Blake Manning: Drums, darbuka
Bill Bell: Background vocals
Edwin: Background vocals
Sending Out A Warning
Lyrics: Alex Lifeson
Music: Alex Lifeson & Bill Bell
Tender is the nerve that leads straight to his heart
Sender sends the spit that streams down his face
Want and need are just two useless words
The third, if she knew it, would be grace
Her grip is tight as a vice-smothers like a killer, stealing
someone's life
His guilt controls his every move-nothing seems to work, what's
he got to prove
Their war was just like any war-all the pain for nothing, double
bladed sword
Sending out a warning
Sending out a warning
He's on the edge, everything is up or down
She's in his face, he feels like he may drown
Relentless is the scope of her revenge
She'll give then take then push him off the ledge
His guilt is tight as a vice-smothers like a killer, stealing
someone's life
Her grip controls his every move-nothing seems to work, what's
he got to prove
Their war was just like any war-all the pain for nothing, double
bladed sword
Sending out a warning
Sending out a warning
He's on the edge, everything is up or down
She's in his face, he feels like he may drown
Relentless is the scope of her revenge
She'll give then take then push him off the ledge
She's gone too far, he knows her subtle tricks
He's tried to hard, there are some things you can't fix
Cross too many lines, be prepared to pay the price
All the warmth you knew will forever turn to ice
Sending out a warning
Sending out a warning
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, vocals
Bill Bell: Guitar
Blake Manning: Drums
Edwin: Background vocals
Shut Up Shuttin' Up
Words: Charlene & Esther
Music: Alex Lifeson & Bill Bell
I don't ask for much, I really don't.
I just want him to put the seat down...
What are you talking about
'you don't ask for much'?
You ask for everything!
Well, I just want him to put the seat down
when he goes to the bathroom at night.
I go in there and I sit down and it's cold and wet
and there's more hair on his feet then on his head!
No, I like the hairs on the floor!
What are they doing?
Oh, there's a shag carpet everyday and this
above the toilet. What are they so tall that
they have to lean over? Is it that heavy?
It's so heavy
Oh my god their only good for one thing
and we know what that is...
What is that?
Don't tell me
I keep forgetting
Just play the guitar
He's still talking to me about that vacation
we took, he still wants the details.
Come on!
Like, I can't take it anymore.
What am I suppose to do?
Did you throw away the pictures?
Oh, those pictures!
If he saw those pictures,
he'd have a heart attack!
Those guys were gorgeous
Oh were they ever, but he wants to know,
'where did you go, did you go to a bar,
did you dance close, did you dance far?'
I know, 'what were you wearing?'
Oh my god, 'were they looking at you. who
danced with you, did they come home with you?
who drove you home? Were they younger then me,
older then me, did they treat you better then me?'
But you know what?
Oh god it was awful!
I always tell him, 'honey,
just shut up and play the guitar!'
Has he asked you to play a hooker?
Ah... I can't believe you're saying that!
He does that to me all the time! All the time
They're all the same, it's sickening! Hookers,
lipstick, big hair, makeup, the sluty outfits,
mascara, false eye-lashes. The thing with the
false eye-lashes! Does he want you to shave?
The whole thing, everything, dye things
Oh my, their all the same, I'm so sick of it.
We're different, women are so different
The only thing is, we wouldn't get paid for it
Oh god, well, they pay for it okay
In the long run?
Oh, in the short run because they
just have to play the guitar!
Do you find that he always want's attention, it's
(constantly) always him him him him him ?
Constant attention
I can't take it, he comes home, and he wants
me to caress him and tell him how great he is
and this and this
Shut Up!
I love you, I love you, you're the best,
there is no one else
Like really, how many time am I suppose to
tell him that? All I want to do is relax,
have a nice little drink
Shut Up!
Give him a little hug, but it always leads
to something else
Yea, you can't just hug, you have to go on
and on and then the comes out
It always turns sexual
Just Shut Up!
unbelievable it just goes on and on and on
Just Shut Up Shuttin' Up!
Their only good for one thing,
just play the guitar!
SHUT UP! AH, JUST SHUT UP! MAN!
SHUT UP SHUTTIN' UP!
SHUT UP, SHUT, SHUT, SHUT IT,
SHUT IT ALL UP.
SHUT UP... SHUTTIN' UP!
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, keyboards, programming, yelling
Bill Bell: E-Bow and Wah guitar
Peter Cardinali: Bass
Blake Manning: Drums
Charlene & Esther: Spoken words
Strip And Go Naked
Music: Alex Lifeson & Bill Bell
Instrumental
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, mandola, bass, programming
Bill Bell: Guitar, Slide guitar
The Big Dance
Lyrics: Alex Lifeson
Music: Alex Lifeson & Adrian Zivojinovich
I've seen so many places, and always left my mark
I've kissed so many faces, lips smooth, just like a shark
I have no friends, I hope that's understood
I take what I can take, when the taking's good
It's not for love, but I'll gladly take your money
I can pretend to be so sad or funny
You'll just love the way I move when I dance
My young hips, they know how to entrance
Nevermind him, he's not here now
It's really not my problem, anyhow
An angel of love to you is what I'll appear
Your lonely ache, I can make, disappear
Yes, take me deep inside so I can heal your pain
No angel of love takes another man's gain
You want to keep me held inside your cage
You best remember, you're twice my age
You think I'll want you with me for evermore
It's only been two weeks, and you're such a bore
I can see you're new to this, you don't know the rules
You're just another one in the long line of fools
Can you be happy for my moment in your life
It doesn't bother you you're someone else's wife
An angel of love is what I may appear
What I really am is really not so clear
I don't live for love, you sticky bitch
All I care about is if you're rich
You decide if you still want to play this game
The price to you for this is nothing will ever be the same
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, vocals, keyboards, programming
Adrian Zivojinovich: Programming
Les Claypool: Bass
Blake Manning: Drums
Edwin: Vocals
Victor
Words: W.H. Auden
Music: Alex Lifeson
Victor was a little baby into this world he came
His father took him on his knee and said 'Don't dishonor the family name.'
Victor looked up at his father-looked up with big brown eyes:
His father said; 'Victor my only son, don't you ever tell lies.'
It was a frosty December, it wasn't the season for fruits
His father fell dead of heart disease while lacing up his boots
It was a frosty December when into his grave he sank;
His uncle found Victor a post as cashier at the Midland Counties Bank.
It was a frosty December Victor was only eighteen
But his figures were straight and his margins straight and his cuffs were always clean
He took a room at the Peveril, a respectable boarding-house;
And Time watched Victor day after day as a cat will watch a mouse
Victor went up to his bedroom, set the alarm bell
Climbed into bed, took his Bible and read of what happened to Jezebel.
It was the first of April, Anna to the Peveril came
Her eyes, her lips, her breasts, her hips and her smile set men aflame
It was the second of April she was wearing a coat of fur;
Victor met her upon the stairs and he fell in love with her
The first time he made his proposal, she laughed, said 'I'll never wed'
The second time there was a pause, then she smiled and shook her head
Anna looked into the mirror, pouted and gave a frown
Said; 'Victor's as dull as a wet afternoon but I've got to settle down.'
The third time he made his proposal, as they walked by the Reservoir
She gave him a kiss like a blow to the head and said, 'You are my heart's desire.'
They were married early in August, she said; 'Kiss me, you funny boy.'
Victor took her in his arms and said: 'Oh my Helen of Troy.'
The clerks were talking of Anna, the door was just ajar:
One said, 'Poor old Victor, but where ignorance is bliss, etcetera.'
Victor looked up at the sunset as he stood there all alone;
Cried: 'Are you in Heaven, Father?', but the sky said 'Address not known.'
Victor looked up at the mountains, the mountains all covered with snow:
Cried: 'Are you pleased with me Father?' and the answer came back, No
Victor came to the forest, cried; 'Father, will she ever be true?'
And the oaks and the beeches shook their heads and they answered: 'Not to you.'
Victor came to the meadow where the wind went sweeping by:
Cried: 'O Father, I love her so.' But the wind said: 'She must die.'
Victor cam to the river running so deep and so still:
Crying 'O Father, what shall I do?' and the river answered: 'Kill.'
Anna was sitting at table, drawing cards from a pack:
Anna was sitting at table waiting for her husband to come back.
Victor stood in the doorway, he didn't utter a word
She said: 'What's the matter, honey?' he behaved like he hadn't heard
There was a voice in his left ear, there was a voice in his right
There was a voice at the base of this skull saying: 'She must die tonight.'
Victor picked up a carving-knife, his features were set and drawn
Said 'Anna, it would have been better for you if you had not been born.'
Anna jumped up from the table, Anna started to scream
But Victor came slowly after her like a horror in a dream
She dodged behind the sofa, she tore down a curtain rod
But Victor came slowly after her, said 'Prepare to meet thy God.'
He stood there above the body, he stood there holding the knife
And the blood ran down the stairs and sang: 'I am the Resurrection and the Life.'
They tapped Victor on the shoulder, they took him away in a van:
He sat as quite as a lump of moss saying: 'I am the Son of Man.'
Victor sat in the corner
Making a woman of clay
Saying: 'I am Alpha and Omega, I shall come to judge the earth one day.'
Alex Lifeson: Vocal, programming
Peter Cardinali: Bass
Colleen Allen: Horns
I Am The Spirit
Lyrics: Alex Lifeson
Music: Alex Lifeson & Bill Bell
I am the star-filled sky in winter
I am the starry-eyed who stares
I am the cold, grey rock of mountains
I am the one whole climbs those stairs
I am-the sea, so calm yet fearsome
I am-the one to seize the chance
I am-the air so pure yet foul
I am-the one who takes a stance
All you have is what there is
All there is, is what you make
All you make is all there is
All for your own sake
I am the building, tall and handsome
I am the builder, the one who cares
I am the painting on the canvas
I am the painter, the one who shares
I am-the trees, so strong and silent
I am-the earth, all life to give
I am-the sun, both lover and killer
I am-the child, through you, I live
I have a need for building on tomorrow
I have a need to begin today
I have no time for living some past sorrow
I just want to get on my way
I need to have strength in my conviction
I need to have the final say
I need to make sense in my selection
I just want to get on my way
You only have you
I only have me
You lonely with you
Me lonely with me
You can give it to me
I can take it from you
You'll always have it from me
We'll be always
I am the wind, both warm and freezing
I am the truth, not always fair
I am the clouds, static yet fleeting
I am the heart, a burden to bear
I am-the main for all the seasons
I am-the boy who never fears
I am-the woman who knows all the reasons
I am-the girl who sheds the tears
Alex Lifeson: Guitar, bass, keyboards
Bill Bell: Wobble & Slide guitar
Blake Manning: Drums
Edwin: Vocals
Cherry Lopez Lullabye
Music: Alex Lifeson
Instrumental
Serbs
Music: Alex Lifeson
Instrumental
Kroove
Music: Alex Lifeson
Instrumental
Banjo Bob
Music: Alex Lifeson
Instrumental
