Rush – Red Barchetta (Guitar)

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My uncle has a country place

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that no one knows about.

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He says it used to be a farm before the motor law.

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And on Sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight

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To far outside the wire where my whitehaired uncle waits.

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Jump to the ground as the turbo slows across the border line.

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    Run like the wind as excitement shivers up and down my spine.

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    Down in his barn my uncle preserved for me an old machine

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For fifty odd years, to keep it as new has been his dearest dream.

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I strip away the old debris that hides the shining car.

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A brilliant Red Barchetta from a better vanished time.

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I fire up, the willing engine responding with a roar.

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Tires spitting gravel,

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I commit my weekly crime.

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 Wind in my hair,

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Well weathered leather, hot metal and oil.

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The scented country air,

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      Sunlight on chrome,

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The blur of the landscape, every nerve aware.

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Suddenly ahead of me across the mountain side,

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A gleaming alloy air car shoots towards me two lanes wide.

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I spin around with shrieking tires to run the deadly race.

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Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase.

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Drive like the wind,  straining the limits of machine and man.

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    Laughing out loud with fear and hope i've got a desperate plan.

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   At the one lane bridge I leave the giants stranded at the river side.

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   Race back to the farm to dream with my uncle at the fireside.