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RUSH lyrics : "Red Barchetta"

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
I 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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