Actually if you look closely at the repeated notes at the beginning of the song it can be read as morse code (without spaces) for YYZ [0]. The story goes while

Actually if you look closely at the repeated notes at the beginning of the song it can be read as morse code (without spaces) for YYZ [0]. The story goes while on the Toronto Airport Neil Peart overheard the airport identifier in morse code and so the intro was born. But I'm not sure where he would have heard that other than over radio broadcast reserved for pilots and ATCs. Instead I think he must have been aware of the obscure history of canadian airport identifiers when wondering about why they have no resemblance (like mostly in the rest of the world) with the letters of the respective cities/geographic area. Canadian airport codes have their roots in the old telegraph stations operated by the railways. They were assigned two-letter identifiers so as to be easily tapped in Morse code. As radio communications evolved, these stations added beacons and specialized in weather reporting. In the 1930’s, a third letter was added to the classification [...] [1][2] [0]https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/08/14/yyz/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/08/14/yyz/ [1]https://rwy23.com/en-de/pages/the-hidden-language-of-airport-codes https://rwy23.com/en-de/pages/the-hidden-language-of-airport... [2]https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/04/why-torontos-airport-code-yyz/ https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/04/why-torontos-airport-cod...