Mission

Words by Neil Peart, Music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
 Hold your fire --
 Keep it burning bright
 Hold the flame
 'Til the dream ignites --
 A spirit with a vision
 Is a dream with a mission
 I hear their passionate music
 Read the words
 That touch my heart
 I gaze at their feverish pictures
 The secrets that set them apart
 When I feel the powerful visions
 Their fire has made alive
 I wish I had that instinct --
 I wish I had that drive
 Spirits fly on dangerous missions
 Imaginations on fire
 Focused high on soaring ambitions
 Consumed in a single desire
 In the grip of
 A nameless possession --
 A slave to the drive of obsession --
 A spirit with a vision
 Is a dream with a mission...
 I watch their images flicker
 Bringing light to a lifeless screen
 I walk through
 Their beautiful buildings
 And I wish I had their dreams
 But dreams don't need
 To have motion
 To keep their spark alive
 Obsession has to have action --
 Pride turns on the drive
 It's cold comfort
 To the ones without it
 To know how they struggled --
 How they suffered about it
 If their lives were
 Exotic and strange
 They would likely have
 Gladly exchanged them
 For something a little more plain
 Maybe something a little more sane
 We each pay a fabulous price
 For our visions of paradise
 But a spirit with a vision
 Is a dream with a mission...