This is a song based on the chronicles of Neil Peart’s adventures on a motorcycle journey documented in his book Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. Peart, who is the bands drummer and lyricist, set out on a 14-month, 55,000 mile motorcycle journey around America after losing his 19-year-old d...
[Intro]
Pack up all those phantoms
Shoulder that invisible load
Keep on riding North and West
Haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider
[Verse 1]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
Sunrise in the mirror
Lightens that invisible load
Riding on a nameless quest
Haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Just an escape artist
Racing against the night
A wandering hermit
Racing toward the light
From the white sands
To the canyon lands
To the redwood stands
To the barren lands
To the barren lands
[Chorus 2]
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
Ghost Rider was written by Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson & Neil Peart.
Ghost Rider was produced by Rush & Paul Northfield.
Rush released Ghost Rider on Tue May 14 2002.