That was the first song that came to mind. The second song that came to mind was one that RUSH did much later, with more life experiences behind them:
“The Way the Wind Blows”
We can only grow the way the wind blows
On a bare and weathered shore
We can only bow to the here and now
In our elemental war...
Like a solitary pine
On a bare, wind blasted shore
We can only grow the way the wind blows
In our elemental war...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY4jnK_IoRg
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When I first heard the later song I was really disappointed in the lyrics - it was so different than the early RUSH stuff of independence, free will, etc.
There is truth in both Freewill and that the environment around us (and within us) dictates what will be. The nurture and nature we receive is really just a roll of the bones.
Tis The Set Of The Sail — Or — One Ship Sails East
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But to every mind there openeth,
A way, and way, and away,
A high soul climbs the highway,
And the low soul gropes the low,
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth,
A high way and a low,
And every mind decideth,
The way his soul shall go.
One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
‘Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.
Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
‘Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.