Test For Echo

Words by Neil Peart and Pye DuBois,

Music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

Here we go --- vertigo

Video vertigo

Test for echo

Here we go --- in slo-mo

Video vertigo

Test for echo

Some kind of trouble on the sensory screen

Camera curves over caved-in cop cars

Bleacher-creatures, would-be desperados

Clutch at plausible deniability

Don't touch that dial ---

We're in denial

Until the showcase trial on TV

Some kind of pictures on the sense o'clock news

Miles of yellow tape --- silhouetted chalklines

Tough-talking hood boys in pro-team logo knock-offs

Conform to uniforms of some corporate entity

Don't change that station

It's Gangster Nation

Now crime's in syndication on TV

What a show --- vertigo

Video vertigo

Test for echo

Touch and go -- in slo-mo

Video vertigo

Test for echo

Some kind of drama live on satellite

Hidden camera coverage from the crime scene to the courtroom

Nail-biting hood boys in borrowed ties and jackets

Clutching at the straws of respectability

Can't do the time?

Don't do the crime

And wind up in the perp walk on TV