The Monday (01.31.11)

Another week, another Tom Sawyer Monday. This one is brought to you by Shakespeare. That's right, your old friend Bill traveled through time to help Rush write the lyrics to "Limelight" (you can find them below the music). Click the video to listen and sing along. Get your week on Brit Lit style.

Living on a lighted stage

Approaches the unreal

For those who think and feel

In touch with some reality

Beyond the gilded cage.

Cast in this unlikely role

Ill-equipped to act

With insufficient tact

One must put up barriers

To keep oneself intact.

Living in the limelight

The universal dream

For those who wish to seem.

Those who wish to be

Must put aside the alienation,

Get on with the fascination,

The real relation,

The underlying theme.

Living in a fisheye lens,

Caught in the camera eye.

I have no heart to lie

I can't pretend a stranger

Is a long-awaited friend.

All the world's indeed a stage

And we are merely players:

Performers and portrayers,

Each another's audience

Outside the gilded cage.

Living in the limelight

The universal dream

For those who wish to seem.

Those who wish to be

Must put aside the alienation,

Get on with the fascination,

The real relation,

The underlying theme.

Dream on.

[END TRANSMISSION]