From: MDD114@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: red barchetta
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:53:32 GMT
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From: morphgr@frodo.msfc.nasa.gov (Rusty Morphew -- BCSS)
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To: MDD114@psuvm.psu.edu
Subject: Red Barchetta

I'm responding directly because I don't have post privileges, as yet. Feel free
 to post this for me. The lyrics, as best as I can remember them, are posted
 below. This song is based on a Science Fiction novel (I forget the name and the
 author, but it is listed in the liner notes of the CD). I have'nt read this
 novel, but the way I interpret this song is that it's set in the future, in a
 Big Brother society, where an individual's owning of none State operated
 machinery is forbidden by the Moter Law (a law passed possibly because
 population has grown such that individual use of machinery would cause
 excessive environmental damage from pollution- Naw, that could never happen).
 The main character of the song would slip past the surveillance systems known
 as the Eye and the Wire to visit his Uncle's farm and drive an old machine that
 his uncle keeps for him illegaly ("a brilliant Red Barchetta"). He gets spotted
 driving the car and is chased by "State Police" in "gleaming alloy air cars".
 This interpretation woul

d seem to fit in with some of Rush's other scenarios of a person expressing his
 individualism, where individualism has been declared illegal by a Governmental
 organization. Anyway, this is a great song, in my opinion, both musically and
 lyrically. Whether you like the story line or not, it does tend to make you
 think (which says alot in my case as I tend to avoid thinking, it makes my head
 hurt). Hope this helps you out. Bye.

morphgr@frodo.msfc.nasa.gov (Rusty Morphew)

                 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
Now on Sundays I elude the Eye 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 50 odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris that hides the shining car
A brilliant Red Barchetta from a better vanished time
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
Adreneline surge

Well worn 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, 2 lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase

Run like th ewind, 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 by the fire-side
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