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To: Dan from Michigan
Tom Petty - "Quit Jammin Me", "I won't back down"(Although I'm afraid he's a lib.)

Rush - Red Barchetta????

25 posted on 11/20/2001 3:58:03 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
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To: Dan from Michigan
Rush - Red Barchetta????

Actually, just about anything by Rush. They've got a pretty strong libertarian bent in their writing. Red Barchetta is the perfect illustration of what life under Algore would be like.

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...


346 posted on 11/20/2001 7:31:31 PM PST by Chemist_Geek
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