100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #15: Rush, Red Barchetta

Science-fiction storytelling at its best, this song was inspired by the Richard Foster short story A Nice Morning Drive.  Like all good science fiction, the listener is left to work out what is going on for him/herself: what is “the Motor Law” of which the narrator sings?  What could the two-lane-wide “gleaming alloy air car”, which begins to chase the narrator, actually look like?  And if it’s called an “air car”, how can the narrator avoid his fate by simply driving down a single-lane track which is too narrow for his pursuers?  In any case, this is a terrific rock song which gets your feet tapping, head banging, and imagination wondering.

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