Album Name : Songs for a New World (World Premiere Recording)
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Song Duration : 4:29
Jason Robert Brown The Steam Train
MAN 1:
You don't know me, but you will. Let me introduce
myself.
Submitted for your approval
A picture of basketball
The man with the muscle
And the man with the moves
Submitted for your approval
The man who's too fast to fall
The man who can hustle
And the man who can fly
Who always is hot
When it's time for the shot
'Cause at any time you want me at all
Any rhyme or reason
Brother, I'm the brother you call to play
Spring or summer,
Winter or fall
Any time or season
Catch the boy who's moving the ball away
It's called a steam train
Coming down the track
Better watch your step
Better watch your back
Can't you see the shadow
Fast and black
And the steam train's rolling by
Steam train chuggin' down the hill
If you don't move now then you never will
He's on your tail and he's in for the kill
Then the Steam Train's rolling by.
WOMAN 2:
He's better than Magic Johnson
MAN 2:
The man's all talk, no action
MAN 1:
My subjects agree
WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2:
Toot, toot!
Here comes the Steam Train.
MAN 2:
Bigger than Michael Jordan
MAN 1:
Yeah, yeah.
MAN 2, WOMAN 1, & WOMAN 2:
Prepare for attack
When the train's on the track
MAN 1:
Listen, I have got my hands on the wheel
MAN 2, WOMAN 1, & WOMAN 2:
Someone's got to meet him
Taking all, the train's gonna steal your fame!
MAN 1:
Watch me as I line up a deal
With Nike and Adidas
MAN 1, MAN 2, WOMAN 1, & WOMAN 2:
All the world is starting to feel the weight
Of the Steam Train coming down the track
Better watch your step
Better watch your back
MAN 1:
Better keep your eyeballs open, Jack
MAN 1 & WOMAN 1:
When the Steam Train's rolling by
MAN 1, MAN 2, WOMAN 1, & WOMAN 2:
Steam Train chuggin' down the hill
MAN 1:
If you want to live, better don't stand still
MAN 1, MAN 2, WOMAN 1, & WOMAN 2:
He's on the move
And he's in for the kill
And the steam train's rolling by
MAN 1:
You don't know me. The last time I saw my father I was
five years old. He hadn't been home for two months. He
came into the apartment at 3 o'clock in the morning,
set fire to the drapes and carpets and then woke up me
and
my sister, carried us outside, then walked away while
we watched the building burn down. You don't know me,
but
you will.
A new world just across the river
MAN 2, WOMAN 1, & WOMAN 2:
Just across the river there's
MAN 1, MAN 2, WOMAN 1, & WOMAN 2:
A new world where I'll have it all
A new world just around the corner
Here it comes
Here it comes
Gotta win, gotta run, gotta move, gotta go
Gotta leave all thoughts behind him
He's gotta fly, he's gotta fly
Steam Train, he's got places to go
No one ever finds him
Steam Train's movin' on with the show
Good-bye, good-bye
Look out! Here comes the Steam Train
It's called a Steam Train
Coming down the track
Better watch your step
Better watch your back
Can't you see the shadow
Fast and black
And the Steam Train's rolling by
Steam Train chuggin' down the hill
If you don't move now then you never will
He's on your tail and he's in for the kill
Then the Steam Train's rolling
Steam Train's rolling
Steam Train's rolling
MAN 2, WOMAN 1, & WOMAN 2:
By...
MAN 1:
You don't know me. There were 12 boys in my 5th grade
class at Sojourner Truth. 4 of them are in jail, 6 of
them are dead, and Gordon Conners works at Twin Donut
on 125th Street. You don't know me, but you will.