Red Sector A

by Rush

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lyrics: Neil Peart
music: Geddy Lee and
Alex Lifeson

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All that we can do is just survive 
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All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive
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All that we can do is just survive 
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All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive


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Ragged lines of ragged grey
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Skeletons, they shuffle away
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Shouting guards and smoking guns
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Will cut down the unlucky ones

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I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed
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A wound that will not heal
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A heart that cannot feel
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Hoping that the horror will recede
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Hoping that tomorrow we'll all be freed

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Sickness to insanity
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Prayer to profanity
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Days and weeks and months go by
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Don't feel the hunger - Too weak to cry

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I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate
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Are the liberators here?
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Do I hope or do I fear?
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For my father and my brother, it's too late
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But I must help my mother stand up straight

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Are we the last ones left alive?
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Are we the only human beings to survive?

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Are we the last ones left alive?
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Are we the only human beings to survive?

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I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate
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Are the liberators here?
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Do I hope or do I fear?
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For my father and my brother, it's too late
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But I must help my mother stand up straight

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Are we the last ones left alive?
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Are we the only human beings to survive?

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Are we the last ones left alive?
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Are we the only human beings to survive?