| When the ebbing tide retreats
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| Along the rocky shoreline
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| It leaves a trail of tidal pools
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| In a short-lived galaxy
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| Each microcosmic planet
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| A complete society
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| A simple kind mirror
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| To reflect upon our own
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| All the busy little creatures
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| Chasing out their destinies
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| Living in their pools
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| They soon forget about the sea…
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| Wheels within wheels in a spiral array
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| A pattern so grand and complex
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| Time after time we lose sight of the way
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| Our causes can’t see their effects
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| A quantum leap forward
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| In time and in space
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| The universe learned to expand
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| The mess and the magic
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| Triumphant and tragic
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| A mechanized world out of hand
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| Computerized clinic
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| For superior cynics
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| Who dance to a synthetic band
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| In their own image
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| Their world is fashioned
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| No wonder they don’t understand
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| Wheels within wheels in a spiral array
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| A pattern so grand and complex
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| Time after time we lose sight of the way
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| Our causes can’t see their effects
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| Science, like nature, must also be tamed
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| With a view towards its preservation
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| Given the same state of integrity
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| It will surely serve us well
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| Art as expression, not as market campaigns
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| Will still capture our imaginations
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| Given the same state of integrity
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| It will surely help us along
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| The most endangered species: the honest man
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| Will still survive annihilation
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| Forming a world, state of integrity
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| Sensitive, open and strong
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| Wave after wave will flow with the tide
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| And bury the world as it does
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| Tide after tide will flow and recede
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| Leaving life to go on as it was |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Natural Science , by - Rush. Song from the album Permanent Waves, in the genre Прогрессивный рок