RUSH - The Camera Eye lyrics

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Grim-faced and forbidding,<br>Their faces closed tight,<br>An angular mass of new yorkers<br>Pacing in rhythm,<br>Race the oncoming night,<br>They chase through the streets of manhattan.<br>Headfirst humanity,<br>Pause at a light,<br>Then flow through the streets of the city.<br><br>They seem oblivious<br>To a soft spring rain,<br>Like an english rain<br>So light, yet endless<br>From a leaden sky.<br><br>The buildings are lost in the limitless rise.<br>My feet catch the pulse and the purposeful stride.<br><br>I feel the sense of possibilities,<br>I feel the wrench of hard realities.<br>The focus is sharp in the city.<br><br>Wide-angle watcher<br>On life's ancient tales,<br>Steeped in the history of london.<br><br>Mist in the streets of westminster.<br>Wistful and weathered,<br>The pride still prevails,<br>Alive in the streets of the city.<br><br>Are they oblivious<br>To this quality? <br>A quality<br>Of light unique to<br>Every city's streets.<br><br>Pavements may teem with intense energy,<br>But the city is calm in this violent sea.