Genius Meanings
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Rush – Red Barchetta
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“Red Barchetta” is the story of a car chase in an Orwellian future. The song’s narrator seeks to escape urban dystopia by driving an illegal antique motor car around the
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Rush – Red Barchetta (Live In YYZ 1981)
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Apr 14, 2022 ... Red Barchetta (Live In YYZ 1981) Lyrics:
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Rush – Red Barchetta [R40 Live]
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Rush – Red Barchetta [Time Machine]
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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
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Rush – Red Barchetta [Exit...Stage Left]
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My uncle has a country place, that no-one knows about / He says it used to be a farm, before the Motor Law / Sundays I elude the ‘Eyes’, and hop the Turbine Freight / To far
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William Maranci – Rap god but the instrumental keeps changing
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[Intro] / "If that means what I think it means, we're in trouble, big trouble; / And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances" / "You are just what the doc
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Nerf Herder – The Girl Who Listened to Rush
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[Verse] / From the back of the stadium / She's easy to see / Standing up at the stage / In her Starman tee / From "Anthem" to "Limelight" / To "YYZ" / She's the girl who listened
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Rush – Tom Sawyer
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The lead single from Rush’s eighth studio album Moving Pictures (1981). One of their most popular songs and described as the band’s “defining piece of music… from the ‘80s
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Rush – YYZ [Exit...Stage Left]
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[Instrumental]
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Rush – 2112 - The Temples of Syrinx (Live In YYZ 1981)
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[Intro] / And the meek shall inherit the earth / [Verse 1] / We've taken care of everything / The words you read, the songs you sing / The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
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Rush – Closer to the Heart [Exit...Stage Left]
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And the men who hold high places / Must be the ones to start / To mould a new reality / Closer to the heart / The blacksmith and the artist / Reflect it in their art / Forge their
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Rush – Animate [R40 Live]
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[Chorus] / Polarize me / Sensitize me / Criticize me / Civilize me / Compensate me / Animate me / Complicate me / Elevate me / [Verse 1] / Goddess in my garden / Sister in my soul
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Rush – A Passage to Bangkok [Exit...Stage Left]
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Our first stop is in Bogota / To check Colombian fields / The natives smile and pass along / A sample of their yield / Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams / Golden Acapulco nights / Then
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Rush – Freewill (Live In YYZ 1981)
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[Verse 1] / There are those who think / That life has nothing left to chance / A host of holy horrors / To direct our aimless dance / [Pre-Chorus 1] / A planet of playthings / We
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Rush – Limelight (Live In YYZ 1981)
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We like to do something for you now from our Moving Pictures album, this is living in the Limelight... / [Verse 1] / Living on a lighted stage / Approaches the unreal / For those
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Rush – Tom Sawyer [Exit...Stage Left]
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A modern-day warrior / Mean mean stride / Today’s Tom Sawyer / Mean mean pride / Though his mind is not for rent / Don’t put him down as arrogant / His reserve, a quiet defense
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Rush – Hemispheres Prelude [R40 Live]
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When our weary world was young / The struggle of the ancients first began / The gods of Love and Reason / Sought alone to rule the fate of Man / They battled through the ages / But
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Rush – Xanadu [Exit...Stage Left]
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“To seek the sacred river Alph / To walk the caves of ice / To break my fast on honey dew / And drink the milk of Paradise…” / I had heard the whispered tales / Of immortality
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Rush – YYZ
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An instrumental interlude named for Rush’s local airport, Toronto’s Pearson International, which is represented by the code YYZ, hence the use of the title in morse code (sort of
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Rush – Subdivisions [R40 Live]
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[Verse 1] / Sprawling on the fringes of the city / In geometric order / An insulated border / In between the bright lights / And the far unlit unknown / [Verse 2] / Growing up it
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Rush – Freewill [Exit...Stage Left]
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There are those who think that life / Has nothing left to chance / A host of holy horrors / To direct our aimless dance / A planet of playthings / We dance on the strings / Of
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Rush – Limelight
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Notably ambivalent about fame and the consequent adoring crowds, Rush drummer Neil Peart penned these lyrics as a statement of such a sentiment, most forcefully in the lines:
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Rush – Freewill
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[Verse 1] / There are those who think that / Life has nothing left to chance / A host of holy horrors / To direct our aimless dance / [Pre-Chorus 1] / A planet of playthings / We
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Rush – 2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx
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[I. Overture] / And the meek shall inherit the earth / [II. Temples of Syrinx] / We've taken care of everything / The words you read, the songs you sing / The pictures that give
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Rush – The Spirit of Radio [Exit...Stage Left]
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[Verse 1] / Begin the day with a friendly voice / A companion unobtrusive / Plays that song that's so elusive / And the magic music makes your morning mood / [Verse 2] / Off on
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