Rush - Grand Designs lyrics

Different degrees...

So much style without substance

So much stuff without style

It's hard to recognize the real thing

It comes along once in a while

Like a rare and precious metal beneath a ton of rock

It takes some time and trouble to separate from the stock

You sometimes have to listen to a lot of useless talk

Shapes and forms against the norms --

Against the run of the mill

Swimming against the stream

Life in two dimensions is a mass production scheme

So much poison in power, the principles get left out

So much mind on the matter, the spirit gets forgotten about

Like a righteous inspiration overlooked in haste

Like a teardrop in the ocean, a diamond in the waste

Some world-views are spacious -- and some are merely spaced

Against the run of the mill

Static as it seems

We break the surface tension with our wild kinetic dreams

Curves and lines -- of grand designs