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Might be Red Barchetta for me.

 

yeah, really hard to beat Red Barchetta. So many images in it., well weathered leather, hot metal and oil, the sun and country air, sunlight on chrome, blur of the landscape.... what the heck, might as well type out the whole song while I am at it...

 

I thought it was "the scented country air."

 

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Might be Red Barchetta for me.

 

yeah, really hard to beat Red Barchetta. So many images in it., well weathered leather, hot metal and oil, the sun and country air, sunlight on chrome, blur of the landscape.... what the heck, might as well type out the whole song while I am at it...

 

I thought it was "the scented country air."

 

:unsure:

 

Same

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Might be Red Barchetta for me.

 

yeah, really hard to beat Red Barchetta. So many images in it., well weathered leather, hot metal and oil, the sun and country air, sunlight on chrome, blur of the landscape.... what the heck, might as well type out the whole song while I am at it...

 

I thought it was "the scented country air."

 

:unsure:

 

Same

 

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/GIFs/BIR75P8_zps63adf9ed.gif

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Might be Red Barchetta for me.

 

yeah, really hard to beat Red Barchetta. So many images in it., well weathered leather, hot metal and oil, the sun and country air, sunlight on chrome, blur of the landscape.... what the heck, might as well type out the whole song while I am at it...

 

I thought it was "the scented country air."

 

:unsure:

 

Same

 

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/GIFs/BIR75P8_zps63adf9ed.gif

:LOL: ... now I suppose you are also going to tell me it doesn't go "now on somedays I elude the eyes and often turn my face.... to far outside the warrior where my whitened uncle waits" ...

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Might be Red Barchetta for me.

 

yeah, really hard to beat Red Barchetta. So many images in it., well weathered leather, hot metal and oil, the sun and country air, sunlight on chrome, blur of the landscape.... what the heck, might as well type out the whole song while I am at it...

 

I thought it was "the scented country air."

 

:unsure:

 

Same

 

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/GIFs/BIR75P8_zps63adf9ed.gif

:LOL: ... now I suppose you are also going to tell me it doesn't go "now on somedays I elude the eyes and often turn my face.... to far outside the warrior where my whitened uncle waits" ...

 

"where my wide-aired uncle wastes."

 

;)

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Might be Red Barchetta for me.

 

yeah, really hard to beat Red Barchetta. So many images in it., well weathered leather, hot metal and oil, the sun and country air, sunlight on chrome, blur of the landscape.... what the heck, might as well type out the whole song while I am at it...

 

I thought it was "the scented country air."

 

:unsure:

 

Same

 

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/GIFs/BIR75P8_zps63adf9ed.gif

:LOL: ... now I suppose you are also going to tell me it doesn't go "now on somedays I elude the eyes and often turn my face.... to far outside the warrior where my whitened uncle waits" ...

 

"where my wide-aired uncle wastes."

 

;)

:unsure: I am trying to imagine what you must have visualized from that interpretation... and it is not pretty

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:LOL: ... now I suppose you are also going to tell me it doesn't go "now on somedays I elude the eyes and often turn my face.... to far outside the warrior where my whitened uncle waits" ...

 

"where my wide-aired uncle wastes."

 

;)

:unsure: I am trying to imagine what you must have visualized from that interpretation... and it is not pretty

 

I never tried to visualize it until just now. You're right.

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:LOL: ... now I suppose you are also going to tell me it doesn't go "now on somedays I elude the eyes and often turn my face.... to far outside the warrior where my whitened uncle waits" ...

 

"where my wide-aired uncle wastes."

 

;)

:unsure: I am trying to imagine what you must have visualized from that interpretation... and it is not pretty

 

I never tried to visualize it until just now. You're right.

lets just say it is better not to think about anything needing to be "aired"

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:LOL: ... now I suppose you are also going to tell me it doesn't go "now on somedays I elude the eyes and often turn my face.... to far outside the warrior where my whitened uncle waits" ...

 

"where my wide-aired uncle wastes."

 

;)

:unsure: I am trying to imagine what you must have visualized from that interpretation... and it is not pretty

 

I never tried to visualize it until just now. You're right.

lets just say it is better not to think about anything needing to be "aired"

 

Too late...

 

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/Smilies%20GIFs/ohnoes_zpsc1e9b5fe.gif

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:LOL: ... now I suppose you are also going to tell me it doesn't go "now on somedays I elude the eyes and often turn my face.... to far outside the warrior where my whitened uncle waits" ...

 

"where my wide-aired uncle wastes."

 

;)

:unsure: I am trying to imagine what you must have visualized from that interpretation... and it is not pretty

 

I never tried to visualize it until just now. You're right.

lets just say it is better not to think about anything needing to be "aired"

 

Too late...

 

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/Smilies%20GIFs/ohnoes_zpsc1e9b5fe.gif

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/Smilies%20GIFs/ohnoes_zpsc1e9b5fe.gifhttp://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/Smilies%20GIFs/ohnoes_zpsc1e9b5fe.gif

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:LOL: ... now I suppose you are also going to tell me it doesn't go "now on somedays I elude the eyes and often turn my face.... to far outside the warrior where my whitened uncle waits" ...

 

"where my wide-aired uncle wastes."

 

;)

:unsure: I am trying to imagine what you must have visualized from that interpretation... and it is not pretty

 

I never tried to visualize it until just now. You're right.

lets just say it is better not to think about anything needing to be "aired"

 

Too late...

 

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/Smilies%20GIFs/ohnoes_zpsc1e9b5fe.gif

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/Smilies%20GIFs/ohnoes_zpsc1e9b5fe.gifhttp://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/blackcc/Smilies%20GIFs/ohnoes_zpsc1e9b5fe.gif

 

You stole my little guy! Twice!

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If it's a posterboard-type presentation, I'd go with "Countdown," especially if we're talking kids. Or I could imagine "Rivendell." In both cases the lyrics are more descriptive of a relatively static event or moment in time.

 

"Red Barchetta" would lend itself better to a slideshow/montage/video-type presentation, IMO, because it's telling a sequence of events. A shorter more dramatic story like "By-Tor and the Snowdog" could appeal to tweens pretty well.

 

A lot would depend on how literally the presentation needs to reflect the lyrics or how interpretative the students are capable of being (or expected to be).

 

I use the lyrics from "Earthshine" and "Faithless" in my college lit/comp class exams specifically because of their imagery, but they lend themselves better to literary interpretation than to visual representation.

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First thing that came to my mind...

 

 

A hot and windy August afternoon

Has the trees in constant motion

With a flash of silver leaves

As they're rocking in the breeze

 

The boy lies in the grass with one blade

Stuck between his teeth

A vague sensation quickens

In his young and restless heart

And a bright and nameless vision

Has him longing to depart

 

You move me -

You move me -

With your buildings and your eyes

Autumn woods and winter skies

You move me -

You move me -

Open sea and city lights

Busy streets and dizzy heights

You call me -

You call me -

 

The fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs

Dances on the edge of his dream

And her voice rings in his ears

Like the music of the spheres

 

The boy lies in the grass, unmoving

Staring at the sky

His mother starts to call him

As a hawk goes soaring by

The boy pulls down his baseball cap

And covers up his eyes

 

Too many hands on my time

Too many feelings -

Too many things on my mind

When I leave I don't know

What I'm hoping to find

When I leave I don't know

What I'm leaving behind...

 

this song was my immediate thought.

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