Rolling Stock

Last weekend my family all went to see Andrew Lloyd Weber's Starlight Express at the Paramount. What I didn't realize until just the other day, was how fun it is to hum the songs while riding your bike. Take the first song in the musical - Rolling Stock - for example. If you didn't know any better, it could easily apply to bikes instead of trains!

I'm just the fastest thing you'll ever see.
That streak of lightning you just missed was me.
Don't stop now - we gotta keep it going all night.

Rolling Stock! Rolling Stock!
You got no wheels, you don't know how it feels.
Rolling Stock! Rolling Stock!
You got no lovers if you got no wheels.

Don't try to show you can go faster than me.
This is my back view and it's all you'll see.
Don't stop now - we gotta keep it going all night.

Rolling Stock! We're Rolling Stock!

So get the motion in your wheels somehow.
The racing action's starting here and now.
Don't stop now - we gotta keep it all night.

Rolling Stock! We're Rolling Stock!
Rolling Stock! We're Rolling Stock!
Rolling Stock! We're Rolling Stock!

So, if you hear some goofball on the Burke Gilman singing about lightning and lovers with wheels, you'll know it's me.

Comments:

Post a Comment:

Name (required):

Email (required but never displayed):

Location (optional):

URL (optional):

Smileys

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?

Submit the word you see below: