Digital Man

By Rush

On Signals

Released on September 9, 1982

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[Verse 1]

His world is under observation, we monitor his station

Under faces and the places where he traces points of view

He picks up scraps of conversation, radio and radiation

From the dancers and romancers with the answers, but no clue


[Chorus]

He'd love to spend the night in Zion

He's been a long, long while in Babylon

He'd like a lover's wings to fly on

To a tropic isle of Avalon


[Verse 2]

His world is under anesthetic, subdivided and synthetic

His reliance on the giants in the science of the day

He picks up scraps of information, he's adept at adaptation

Because for strangers and arrangers, constant change is here to stay


[Chorus]

He'd love to spend the night in Zion

He's been a long, long while in Babylon

He'd like a lover's wings to fly on

To a tropic isle of Avalon


[Bridge]

He's got a force field and a flexible plan

He's got a date with fate in a black sedan

He plays fast-forward just as long as he can

But he won't need a bed, he's a digital man


[Instrumental Break]


[Guitar Solo]


[Chorus]

He'd love to spend the night in Zion

He's been a long, long while in Babylon

He'd like a lover's wings to fly on

To a tropic isle of Avalon


[Outro]

He's got a force field and a flexible plan

He's got a date with fate in a black sedan

Plays fast-forward just as long as he can

But he won't need a bed, he's a digital man


[Outro]

He plays fast-forward just as long as he can

But he won't need a bed, he's a digital man

Plays fast-forward just as long as he can

But he won't need a bed, he's a digital man

He plays fast-forward

But he won't need a bed, digital man

He plays fast-forward just as long as he can

But he won't need a bed, he's a digital man

He plays fast-forward just as long as he can

But he won't need a bed, because he's actually a digital man