Rush - Red Barchetta - Live in Frankfurt

Red Barchetta by Rush

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about.
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law.
And on Sundays I elude the Eyes,
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits.

Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline.
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine.
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty-odd years.
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream.

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car:
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time.
We fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar.
Tires spitting gravel,
I commit my weekly crime.

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...

Well-weathered leather,
Hot metal and oil,
The scented country air.
Sunlight on chrome,
The blur of the landscape,
Every nerve aware.

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide.
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase.

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man.
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan.
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside.
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside.

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[Florent QUESNEL]

Probably the most exemplary rock band of all times !!!! 40 years of reign without an error !!!

What else to say ?? Nothing....

[miguel fontoura]

oh god! the perfect band does exist!

[Ryan Crase]

I love the lack of gimmicks with these guys. No killer boots or dumb haircuts....no fake attitude, just pure genius.

[HewlettPackardMedia]

Everything, what I just wanted to say...

Neil Peart, is really fucking working machine.

Too fast too furious.

[bob will kill you]

this song is what tought me about guitar harmonics

[Guy Clark]

perfection

[Dexter CJ]

This is just perfection.

[FoundingPrinciples]

The Nanny State...Big Brother...call it what you will.

[NonLocalYokel]

I get exactly what you are saying. I have had the same film in my head with this song since listening to it as a 12 year old on exit stage left.

[bigtony2499]

rocking hard and doing laundry... my kind of rock

[Darren A]

Of all their songs, I think this one is the most perfect blend of all their techniques. In my opinion, the best they ever created.

[jethross12]

The World needs more of this simple to the Heart music,PEACE.