ghost rider

Rush'ın Vapor Trails albümünün en özel (hatta en güzel) şarkısıdır. Davulcuları Neil Peart önce 19 yaşındaki kızını trafik kazasında kaybeder, ardından sadece 10 ay sonra da kanserden eşini. Tüm hissettikleri ile motoruyla bir geziye çıkar. Uzun bir süre kuzey amerikayı gezer, acısını sindirir. bu gezinin iki meyvesi vardır; biri Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road adında yarı felsefik, yarı gezi yazısı türdeki bir kitap ve diğeri de bu şarkı.

Daha da etkileyici olan şey rush in rio konserindeki yorumudur. Profesör (Neil Peart'ın lakabı) bu şarkıyı çalarken yüzündeki ifade benzersizdir. Tüm şarkıyı gözleri kapalı çalar. Şarkı biter, üstat bagetlerini kırar...

Sözleri ise şöyledir;

pack up all those phantoms
shoulder that invisible load
keep on riding north and west
haunting that wilderness road
like a ghost rider

carry all those phantoms
through bitter wind and stormy skies
from the desert to the mountain
from the lowest low to the highest high
like a ghost rider

keep on riding north and west
then circle south and east
show me beauty but there is no peace
for the ghost rider
for the ghost rider

shadows on the road behind
shadows on the road ahead
there's nothing to stop you now
nothing can stop you now

there's a shadow on the road behind
there's a shadow on the road ahead
there's nothing to stop you now
nothing can stop you now

sunrise in the mirror
lightens that invisible load
riding on a nameless quest
haunting that wilderness road
like a ghost rider

just an escape artist
racing against the night
a wandering hermit
racing toward the light

from the white sands
to the canyonlands
to the redwood stands
to the barren lands
to the barren lands

sunrise on the road behind
sunset on the road ahead
there's nothing to stop you now
nothing can stop you now

there's a shadow on the road behind
there's a shadow on the road ahead
there's nothing to stop you now
nothing can stop you now

nothing can stop you now
there's nothing to stop you now
nothing can stop you now
there's nothing to stop you now
ghost rider

there's nothing to stop you now
nothing can stop you now
there's nothing to stop you now
ghost rider

nothing can stop you now
like a ghost rider