Red Barchetta - Live In YYZ 1981

[00:00.02] I'd like to do a song for you now
[00:01.39] That takes place in Rochester, I think
[00:04.03] It's a song about a car
[00:07.12] It's called the Red Barchetta
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[00:56.18] My uncle has a country place that no one knows about
[01:02.52] He says it used to be a farm before the Motor Law
[01:09.13] And on Sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight
[01:16.05] Too far outside the wire, where my white-haired uncle waits
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[01:42.83] Jump to the ground
[01:44.60] As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
[01:49.99] Run like the wind
[01:50.90] As excitement shivers up and down my spine
[01:56.57] Go down in his barn
[01:57.86] My uncle preserved for me an old machine
[02:01.13] For 50-odd years
[02:03.05] To keep it as new has been, his dearest dream
[02:10.94] I strip away the old debris that hides a shining car
[02:17.63] A brilliant red Barchetta from a better, vanished time
[02:24.07] We fire up, the willing engine responding with a roar
[02:30.88] Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime
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[02:52.31] Wind in my hair
[02:56.64] Shifting and drifting
[03:01.91] Mechanical music
[03:08.07] Adrenaline surge
[03:17.07] Well-weathered leather, hot metal and oil
[03:20.28] The scented country air
[03:23.47] Sunlight on chrome, the blur of the landscape
[03:26.94] Every nerve aware
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[04:05.30] Suddenly, ahead of me, across the mountainside
[04:12.03] A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
[04:18.90] I spin around with shrieking tires to run the deadly race
[04:25.43] Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase
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[04:52.44] Drive like the wind
[04:54.05] Straining the limits of machine and man
[04:58.94] Laughing out loud with fear and hope
[05:01.91] I've got a desperate plan
[05:05.17] At the one-lane bridge
[05:06.99] I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
[05:12.06] Race back to the farm
[05:13.89] To dream with my uncle at the fireside
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[06:43.47] Thank you
[06:45.86] Red Barchetta
[06:48.29] We'd like to continue in the Mediterranean vein
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