CONTROL
This is control. This is control. Tonight is the most important night in the
History of the world. Take your seats for the World Championship Railroad
Race. Trains to your tracks. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,
Three, two, one. Trains gone! Four trains going for two final places.
Greaseball and Expresso are the early leaders with Nintendo pressing in
Third. This is turning into a real grudge match. And here's a surprise: look
At that Rusty go.
MOTHER
Put those trains away.
CONTROL
Oh Mum - just five more minutes.
MOTHER
Put those trains away and get into bed.
CONTROL
But...
MOTHER
No buts.
CONTROL
Starlight Express, Starlight Express
Are you real - yes or no ?
Starlight Express, Starlight Express...
Starlight Express 1984 Original London Cast Soundtrack Album Lyrics
Starlight Express 1984 Original London Cast Soundtrack Lyrics
- Starlight Express - Overture
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Rolling Stock
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Call Me Rusty
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - A Lotta Locomotion
- Starlight Express Cast - Freight
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - AC/DC
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - He Whistled At Me
- Starlight Express Cast - The Race
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - There's Me
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Poppa's Blues
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Belle The Sleeping Car
- Andrew Lloyd Webber and El DeBarge - Starlight Express
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Pumping Iron
- Starlight Express Cast - The Rap
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Rolling Stock (Reprise)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - C.B.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Right Place, Right Time
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ray Shell and Lon Satton - I Am the Starlight
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - He Whistled At Me (Reprise)
- Starlight Express Cast - Race: The Final
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - No Comeback
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - One Rock 'N' Roll Too Many
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Only He
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Barrowman and Janis Kelly - Only You
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Light at the End of the Tunnel
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Rolling Stock
[ Featuring Starlight Express, Al Knott ]
[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!
[Greaseball]
You got no wheels, you don't know how it feels.
[All]
Rolling stock! Rolling stock!
[Greaseball]
You got no lovers if you got no wheels.
Don't try to show you can go faster than me.
[All]
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 going night.
Rolling stock! We're rolling stock!
Rolling stock! We're rolling stock!
Rolling stock! We're rolling stock!
Writer: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, RICHARD STILGOE
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Call Me Rusty
[ Featuring Starlight Express Cast, Ray Shell ]
Rusty: Woo woo, woo woo
Nobody can do it like a steam train
Woo woo, woo woo
Nobody can do it like a -
Greaseball: Okay, steam train, where you been?
+N. Trains: You got work to do!
Espresso: I've got a race to win!
Prince of Wales: Fetch the coaches from the marshalling yard
Ruhrgold: Where's my schedule?
Prince of Wales: Where's my guard?
All: Rusty, we're not here for fun - Rusty, we've got a race to run
Bobo: My seating has not been shampooed
Turnov: My dining car is out of food!
Ruhrgold: Where's the schedule?
Espresso: Where's my oil?
Nintendo: Come on Rusty, get on the boil!
Rusty, we're not here for fun - Rusty, we've got a race to run
Control: Shut it guys! This is Control
Engines to get fuelled up. Rusty to fetch the coaches. Move it - move it!
Gang: Hear that Rusty, Rusty bye bye
Greaseball: Go fetch the coaches like the boss man said
Gang: Hear that Rusty, Rusty bye bye
Greaseball: Or you could enter for the race instead (laughter)
Gang: Bye bye Rusty, Rusty bye bye - bye bye Rusty
Greaseball: Rusty bye bye
Rusty: Call me Rusty if you like (cool off!)
'Cos soon I'll know just how a champion feels (don't push!)
When I show the rest a clean pair of wheels (who d'you think you're shoving?)
Call me Rusty if you like
Pearl: Rusty, turn your fire down!
Rusty: Call me Rusty if you dare (he'll blow his top!)
'Cos when you see me on the finishing line (he's off the rails)
And when I take the place that's rightfully mine (he always fails)
Call me Rusty I don't care
Ashley: Rusty
Buffy: Can't
Dinah: Be serious
Ashley: Him
Buffy: Go in
Dinah: For the race?
Ashley: You gotta be strong
Buffy: Is he strong?
Pearl: Not for long
Ashley: You gotta have speed
Buffy: Which he don't
Dinah: What you need is a mixture of strength
And power and length
If you're gonna have pull where it counts
Ashley: You're a fool to go with him
Pearl: Should I tell him no?
Other three: You gotta feel more, you gotta feel more
You gotta be certain, you gotta be sure
Pearl: I gotta feel more
All four: We gotta feel more
We need to be certain, we need to be sure
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - A Lotta Locomotion
[ Featuring Starlight Express Cast, Chrissy Wickham, Nancy Wood, Frances Ruffelle, Stephanie Lawrence ]
COACHES
A lotta locomotion that's what we need
From a locomotive who can take the lead
From the eastern ocean to the western sea
Locomotion's gonna carry me
A lotta locomotion that's what we need
If we are ever gonna get up speed
A lotta locomotion and the right approach
For there are lots of different kinds of coach
ASHLEY
Like me I'm Ashley, I'm the smoking car
I've tried to knock the habit but my inside's used to tar
I know that if I don't give up I might choke or have a stroke
That scares me, and when I'm scared -
Boy I need a smoke.
BUFFY
Buffy at your service
Ever open wide
My microwave is cooking to warm you from inside
A lotta locomotion will do the trick
Come and bite my burgers
I'm hot and cheap and quick
DINAH
My name's Dinah, I'm the dining car
I'll cook for you and listen while you lean upon my bar
I'll serve you with your dinner
While the train goes loop the loop
Gee, I'm sorry gentlemen - I hope you wanted soup
COACHES
A lotta locomotion that's what we need
If we are ever gonna get up speed
From the Eastern Ocean to the Western Sea
Locomotion's gonna carry me
PEARL
My name's Pearl I'm a brand new girl
My springs still bounce my fans still whirl
Ain't gonna smoke, ain't gonna drink
COACHES
What are you gonna do?
PEARL
What'd you think?
COACHES
A lotta locomotion that's what we need
If we are ever gonna get up speed
From the Eastern Ocean to the Western Sea
Don't stop the piston stroking
Don't stop the fireman stoking
ASHLEY
Don't make me give up smoking
COACHES
Give up smoking? You gotta be joking!
Locomotion's gonna carry me
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Starlight Express Cast - Freight
DINAH
Oh no!
BUFFY
Oh shucks!
PEARL
It's the freight trains.
ASHLEY
The dumb trucks!
BUFFY
Forty tons of empty chrome.
DINAH
The lights are on
ASHLEY
But nobody's home!
BUFFY
Let's show them who's boss.
DINAH
Ler's play a joke.
PEARL
Yeah, let's have some fun.
ASHLEY
Let's have a smoke!
DINAH
Here they come...
BUFFY
To fill our station...
PEARL
With witty, sparkling conversation!
TRUCKS
Freight is great
Freight is great
We carry weight 'cos we are freight
And freight is great.
Freight is great
Freight is great
We never sulk.We hulk the bulk.
'Cos freight is great.
We never make a fuss. We got the goods on us.
We take the loads from off the roads
And freight is great.
COACHES
That's brilliant
Don't you wish you'd thought of that?
One more time!
Did you think of that all by yourselves?
It's so profound!
Well I certainly learned something today!
You just listen to what the coach says!
COACHES
Couldn't stand gravel and sand,
Being ignored, no-one aboard,
Nodoby complaining we were late again.
I should hate carrying freight, nobody living in me.
Got to be a living, breathing passenger train.
TRUCKS
Freight is great.
Freight is great.
TRUCKS / COACHES
Freight/Couldn't stand gravel and sand,
Being ignored, no-one aboard,
Is great/Nodoby complaining we were late again.
We carry weight/I should hate carrying freight, nobody living in me.
And freight is great/Got to be a living, breathing passenger train.
It's mommas and poppas/ it's commerce and hoppers,
It's daughters and sons/it's quaters and tons,
They get in your hair/it's the fun of the fair,
Freight!/Folks!/Tares!/Fares!
Passengers, commuters and mail/
Trees and meat, gravel and shale/
Are great, are great, are great, are great, are great!
CONTROL
Control. Control. You wagons and passenger cars just cut it out.
Trucks will identity themselves. Box cars:
ROCKY I
I'm Rocky, there's lots like me.
ROCKY II
I'm Rocky two.
ROCKY III
I'm Rocky three.
ROCKIES
The only time we get sick inside
Is when some bum hitches a ride.
We wait for a sharp corner to come
And open the door - bye bye bum!
TRUCKS
Freight is great!
CONTROL
Brick truck.
FLAT-TOP
Flat-Top - who you looking at?
Yeah, they're bricks - what's wrong with that?
No, you're right, they don't all match.
Yes they're heavy - here, catch!
TRUCKS
Freight is great!
CONTROL
The big hopper.
FLAT-TOP
Dustin, that's you, mate.
CONTROL
Come on, the big hopper.
FLAT-TOP
Come on, Dustin.
DUSTIN
I'm the big hopper, I'm not a box.
ROCKIES
Yeah, your head is full of rocks.
DUSTIN
They're not rocks, they're bits of gravel.
Gravel's got a right to travel.
DUSTIN AND FLAT-TOP
Travellin' with gravel in.
Praying that we don't get wet.
Water and mortar
Do things they didn't oughter.
Empty me before I set.
TRUCKS
Down the track from A to B and back
We carry things not people -
People talk a lot -
That isn't what we like.
COACHES
They're strong and silent!
TRUCKS
None of us may be a genius
But we know one thing -
What we know is:
Freight is great.
Freight is great.
COACHES AND TRUCKS
It's mommas and poppas/ it's commerce and hoppers/
It's daughters and sons/it's quaters and tons/
They get in your hair/it's the fun of the fair/
Freight!/Folks!/Tares!/Fares!
Passengers, commuters and mail/
Trees and meat, gravel and shale/
On the rails, on the rails, on the rails, on the rails
Are great, are great, are great, are great, are GREAT!
Oh no!
BUFFY
Oh shucks!
PEARL
It's the freight trains.
ASHLEY
The dumb trucks!
BUFFY
Forty tons of empty chrome.
DINAH
The lights are on
ASHLEY
But nobody's home!
BUFFY
Let's show them who's boss.
DINAH
Ler's play a joke.
PEARL
Yeah, let's have some fun.
ASHLEY
Let's have a smoke!
DINAH
Here they come...
BUFFY
To fill our station...
PEARL
With witty, sparkling conversation!
TRUCKS
Freight is great
Freight is great
We carry weight 'cos we are freight
And freight is great.
Freight is great
Freight is great
We never sulk.We hulk the bulk.
'Cos freight is great.
We never make a fuss. We got the goods on us.
We take the loads from off the roads
And freight is great.
COACHES
That's brilliant
Don't you wish you'd thought of that?
One more time!
Did you think of that all by yourselves?
It's so profound!
Well I certainly learned something today!
You just listen to what the coach says!
COACHES
Couldn't stand gravel and sand,
Being ignored, no-one aboard,
Nodoby complaining we were late again.
I should hate carrying freight, nobody living in me.
Got to be a living, breathing passenger train.
TRUCKS
Freight is great.
Freight is great.
TRUCKS / COACHES
Freight/Couldn't stand gravel and sand,
Being ignored, no-one aboard,
Is great/Nodoby complaining we were late again.
We carry weight/I should hate carrying freight, nobody living in me.
And freight is great/Got to be a living, breathing passenger train.
It's mommas and poppas/ it's commerce and hoppers,
It's daughters and sons/it's quaters and tons,
They get in your hair/it's the fun of the fair,
Freight!/Folks!/Tares!/Fares!
Passengers, commuters and mail/
Trees and meat, gravel and shale/
Are great, are great, are great, are great, are great!
CONTROL
Control. Control. You wagons and passenger cars just cut it out.
Trucks will identity themselves. Box cars:
ROCKY I
I'm Rocky, there's lots like me.
ROCKY II
I'm Rocky two.
ROCKY III
I'm Rocky three.
ROCKIES
The only time we get sick inside
Is when some bum hitches a ride.
We wait for a sharp corner to come
And open the door - bye bye bum!
TRUCKS
Freight is great!
CONTROL
Brick truck.
FLAT-TOP
Flat-Top - who you looking at?
Yeah, they're bricks - what's wrong with that?
No, you're right, they don't all match.
Yes they're heavy - here, catch!
TRUCKS
Freight is great!
CONTROL
The big hopper.
FLAT-TOP
Dustin, that's you, mate.
CONTROL
Come on, the big hopper.
FLAT-TOP
Come on, Dustin.
DUSTIN
I'm the big hopper, I'm not a box.
ROCKIES
Yeah, your head is full of rocks.
DUSTIN
They're not rocks, they're bits of gravel.
Gravel's got a right to travel.
DUSTIN AND FLAT-TOP
Travellin' with gravel in.
Praying that we don't get wet.
Water and mortar
Do things they didn't oughter.
Empty me before I set.
TRUCKS
Down the track from A to B and back
We carry things not people -
People talk a lot -
That isn't what we like.
COACHES
They're strong and silent!
TRUCKS
None of us may be a genius
But we know one thing -
What we know is:
Freight is great.
Freight is great.
COACHES AND TRUCKS
It's mommas and poppas/ it's commerce and hoppers/
It's daughters and sons/it's quaters and tons/
They get in your hair/it's the fun of the fair/
Freight!/Folks!/Tares!/Fares!
Passengers, commuters and mail/
Trees and meat, gravel and shale/
On the rails, on the rails, on the rails, on the rails
Are great, are great, are great, are great, are GREAT!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - AC/DC
[ Featuring Starlight Express, Tom Pigram ]
[Krupp]
Clear, Electra, verify
[Wrench]
Go to Electra, load
[Joule]
Shift, Electra
[Volta]
Space, Electra
[Purse]
Enter, Electra
Run, Electra
Confirm, confirm, enter
[Components]
(Electra)
(Electra)
(Electra)
(Electra)
[Electra]
I am electric, feel my attraction
Feel my magnetism, you will agree
I am electric, I have the contacts
I am electric, the future is me
[All]
AC/DC, it's okay by me
I can switch and change my frequency
[Electra]
I am electric, mind how you touch me
I can shock you, I can set you on fire
I can reach up and pluck down the lightning
Watch the conductor, see the live wire
[All]
AC/DC, it's okay by me
I can switch and change my frequency
AC/DC, it's okay by me
I can switch and change my frequency
[Components]
(Electra)
(Electra)
(Electra)
[Electra]
I am electric, I'm a computer
Don't attempt to keep no secrets from me
If you make me bored, I hit my keyboard
You'll be erased from my memory
[All]
AC/DC, it's okay by me
I can switch and change my frequency
Can switch and change my frequency
Can switch and change my frequency
(AC/DC)
(AC/DC)
(AC/DC)
(AC/DC)
(Electra)
(Electra)
(Electra)
(Electra)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - He Whistled At Me
PEARL AND COACHES
Whoo-whoo, whoo-whoo - nobody can do it like a steam train.
Whoo-whoo, whoo-whoo - everybody's waiting for their dream train.
PEARL
I'll know him when I see him
For long before I see him
I will hear the far off signal
I will hear the Distant call
And then he'll whistle at me.
He'll send a not and woo me.
He'll whistle at me,
I'm gonna hitch him to me.
Some day soon he'll whistle at me,
That's how I'll recognise him
And maybe I will whistle at him -
That should surprise him.
Don't give me insistent humming,
Horns and bells and distant drumming,
I want steam that's under pressure
As it rises to a scream,
Somebody whistle at me,
I'm all anticipation.
I need someone to whistle at me,
I'm waiting at the station.
Come on, soneone whistle at me,
I'm longing to be near him.
I need someone to whistle at me -
I'll know him when I hear him.
He'll whistle at me.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Starlight Express Cast - The Race
CONTROL
Heat one. Heat one. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two,
One. Trains gone! Four trains going for two final places. Greaseball and
Espresso are the early leaders with Nintendo pressing in third. Well, that's
Not in the rule book. No-one messes with the champion! Up the nursery slope.
It's still Greaseball but Espresso's looking good! It's the double whammy
From Electra and the Champion! Across the high level, it's Greaseball,
Electra, Nintendo and Espresso. Nintendo takes Electra and Nintendo passes
Greaseball! Don't play with electricity - the champ leads - this is getting
Hot! Nintendo must win. He's overdone it. Nintendo crashes! Winner of heat
One: Greaseball the diesel with Electra in second place. Greaseball and
Electra have a place in the final.
Heat one. Heat one. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two,
One. Trains gone! Four trains going for two final places. Greaseball and
Espresso are the early leaders with Nintendo pressing in third. Well, that's
Not in the rule book. No-one messes with the champion! Up the nursery slope.
It's still Greaseball but Espresso's looking good! It's the double whammy
From Electra and the Champion! Across the high level, it's Greaseball,
Electra, Nintendo and Espresso. Nintendo takes Electra and Nintendo passes
Greaseball! Don't play with electricity - the champ leads - this is getting
Hot! Nintendo must win. He's overdone it. Nintendo crashes! Winner of heat
One: Greaseball the diesel with Electra in second place. Greaseball and
Electra have a place in the final.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - There's Me
[ Featuring Starlight Express Cast, Michael Staniforth ]
All alone
You think you're on your own
You think there's no-one in the world
Who cares for you
That isn't true
There's me
I may not be
The one you want to see
But if you need someone who's kind
Then look behind
And then you'll find
There's me
I'll be near standing by
Never fear
You can cry
In a while
You will smile
And I'll be there to see
By yourself
You have to cry yourself
Nobody else can cry the tears you have to cry
But I will try
There's me
Until then
When you're okay again
You look around find that I'm no longer there
I'll still be near somewhere
You're not alone, there's me
There's always me
I'll still be near somewhere
You're not alone there's me
There's always me
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Poppa's Blues
ROCKY I
Hey, Poppa's gonna sing!
FLAT-TOP
That stuff is so out of date.
ROCKY I
Cool it man. Poppa's gonna sing!
ROCKIES
Poppa don't sing often, but he do sing mean.
POPPA
Oh the first line of the blues is always sung a second time (oh yeah?)
First line of the blues is always sung a second time (kinda smooth!)
So by the time you get to the third line you've had time to think up a rhyme.
Oh there ain't no law that says the third line has to be different at all.
No, no, there ain't no law that says the third line has to be different at all.
No there ain't no law that says the third line has to be different at all.
Never borrow a mouth organ - not even from your best friend.
No, no, no, never borrow a mouth organ - not even from your best friend.
'Cos you may survive the blowing, but the sucking's gonna get you in the end. Oh yeah!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Belle The Sleeping Car
[ Featuring Starlight Express Cast, P.P. Arnold ]
Looks and youth ain't everything
Experience is a quality that counts for a lot
The sad thing 'bout experience is
By the time you've got it
It's usually all you've got...
I'm Belle, Belle, Belle, the sleeping car
Doesn't matter who you are
Just climb aboard to lie with me
And when you wake I'll make you tea
A Pullman car when I was made
I went down for the seaside trade
I'm peeling now, the light's too bright
I wear dark glasses day and night
I had crystal lamps, Irish linen
To set off my red velvet dress
Those who rode on me compared me to
The Orient Express
That was excessive
But now they climb aboard, undress
Don't wait for me to whisper 'yes'
Don't say goodnight, just hit the lights
And worst of all turn over and go straight to sleep
Once I was a real main liner
Enjoying the occasional smoke
Now I hang around the fuel dump
Sniffing the coke
It really chokes me
Oh, Belle, Belle, Belle, the sleeping truck
I'm down at wheel, down on my luck
I may not be first class, but I'm not yet worst class
I can still warm you when the night is cold
I'm a sleeper with a heart of gold.
I can still warm you when the night is cold
I'm a sleeper with a heart of gold.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber and El DeBarge - Starlight Express
[ Featuring El DeBarge ]
When the night is darkest
Open up your mind
Dream begins it's becoming clearer
Listen to the distant
Listen and you'll find
A midnight train is getting nearer
[Chorus]
Starlight express
Starlight express
Are you real? Yes or no
Starlight express
(Please) answer me yes
I don't want you to go
Take me to the places
I have never been
Bring me home safely before I wake up
'Cause I believe in you completely
Though you may be unseen
This is not a kind of thing that anyone can make up
[Chorus]
You're in need of bigger world
To help you
If you grow on world deeds
Dip it inside
[Chorus]
My starlight Express
Please answer me yes
I don't want you to go
Writer: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, RICHARD STILGOE
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Pumping Iron
[ Featuring Starlight Express, Al Knott ]
GREASEBALL:
Here comes the diesel train
With its steel refrain
Hear me knocking
The diesel's on its way
It's gonna win the day
Hear me knocking
Listen to the chatter of the diesel force
Generating twenty-seven hundred horse
Camshaft rolling while the rockers rock
Hear me knock
See me hustle
Feel my muscle
Pumping iron
Trying to build my body
Trying to lose my mind
See me straining
I'm in training
Pumping iron
I'm a diesel engine
I'm knocking, I'm knocking, I'm knocking
I'm pumping iron
COACHES:
Well he's the one they'll choose
You know he just can't lose
Hear him knocking
There ain't another rig
That's even half as big
Hear him knocking
Everybody's gonna say "that train is smart"
The mighty diesel engine is a work of art
Not a word of credit to the rolling stock
Hear him knock
GREASEBALL AND COACHES:
See me hustle
Feel my muscle
Pumping iron
Stretching my bullworker
I'm heaving on my weights
See my flex my delts and pecs
I'm pumping iron
I'm a diesel engine
I'm knocking
I'm knocking
Heading for the rally (heading for the rally)
Gonna win the first race (gonna win the first race)
Gonna run the longest (the biggest and the strongest)
I'm knocking
I'm knocking
I'm knocking
I'm knocking
I'm knocking
I'm PUMPING IRON !
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Starlight Express Cast - The Rap
ROCKIES
Lead to the left and box to the right
The Rockies in the house were here tonight
R.O.C.K.I.E.S.
Put your hands together, you know we're the best!
Motivatin' (acceleratin'!)
Devastatin' (galvinatin'!)
BOYS
Diesel, D-d-d-d-Diesel.
E.L.E.C. Elec-Elec-Electricity.
Electricity is not for free.
ELECTRA AND COMPONENTS
So don't mess with me (so don't mess with me)
ROCKY I
Are you ready?
ROCKY II & III
Ready, check it out, check it out.
ROCKY I
Are you ready?
ROCKY II & III
Ready, check it out, check it out.
ROCKY I
Are you ready?
ALL
Ready!
ROCKIES
Are you ready for the big one?
ALL
Ready!
ROCKIES
Are you ready for the big one, starting any minute?
We're in it
ROCKY I
You gotta be in it to win it!
ROCKIES
Gotta be in the frame if you're gonna win the game
Are you ready for the big one?
ALL
Ready!
BOYS
Check it out, check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out, check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
COMPONENTS
Hey, I make Electra the one they gotta beat.
GANG
Nah - Diesel's wicked!
BUFFY AND ASHLEY
Yeah - Diesel's neat!
POPPA
What about Rusty?
ALL
You can't be serious.
GREASEBALL
Hasn't got a chance against his superiors.
ROCKIES
Check it out - buy.
ALL
Are you ready for the big one, starting any minute?
We're in it - you gotta be in it to win it.
Gotta be in the frame if you're gonna win the game
Are you ready for the big one? Ready!
Are you ready for the big one? Ready!
Are you ready for the big one? Ready!
RUSTY
If I was the winner of tonight's big fight
Pearl would come back.
DUSTIN
Yeah, that's right.
FLAT-TOP
Well then, win it. That's all you gotta do.
ELECTRA
Hey Greaseball - I'm talking to you.
You still got that Dinah hanging on a lead?
A new set of wheels is what you need.
ROCKIES
Check it out.
ALL
Are you ready for the big one?
ENGINES
Ready!
ROCKIES
Check it out.
ALL
Are you ready for the big one?
ROCKIES
Check it out.
BOYS
Check it out. Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out. Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out. Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out. Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
GREASEBALL
Any car here - any car you can see would be proud
GANG
Yeah, proud.
GREASEBALL
To ride with me.
RUSTY
But not Pearl.
GREASEBALL
Oh, no? Pearl's like any other.
She knows I'm a fast movin' mother.
Pearl knows she's a winner. She won't risk
Racing with that floppy disk.
ELECTRA AND COMPONENTS
Check it out, check it out.
Can you believe this?
DINAH
Greaseball stop it!
GREASEBALL
Shut it, Dinah.
ELECTRA
All software is designer.
GREASEBALL
Pearl, you know that he don't cut it.
DINAH
Greaseball stop it!
ALL
Dinah - shut it!
GREASEBALL
Pearl - come on - it's time to choose:
You wanna boil with the oil or lose with the fuse?
ALL
Are you ready for the big one? Ready!
Are you ready for the big one starting any minute?
We're in it - you gotta be in it to win it.
Unless your name's in the frame you ain't in the game.
Ready for the big one? Ready!
Check it out, check it out.
Can you believe it?
Check it out, check it out.
Can you believe it?
Are you ready for the big one starting any minute?
We're in it - you gotta be in it to win it.
Unless your name's in the frame you ain't in the game.
Ready for the big one? Ready for the big one? READY!
Lead to the left and box to the right
The Rockies in the house were here tonight
R.O.C.K.I.E.S.
Put your hands together, you know we're the best!
Motivatin' (acceleratin'!)
Devastatin' (galvinatin'!)
BOYS
Diesel, D-d-d-d-Diesel.
E.L.E.C. Elec-Elec-Electricity.
Electricity is not for free.
ELECTRA AND COMPONENTS
So don't mess with me (so don't mess with me)
ROCKY I
Are you ready?
ROCKY II & III
Ready, check it out, check it out.
ROCKY I
Are you ready?
ROCKY II & III
Ready, check it out, check it out.
ROCKY I
Are you ready?
ALL
Ready!
ROCKIES
Are you ready for the big one?
ALL
Ready!
ROCKIES
Are you ready for the big one, starting any minute?
We're in it
ROCKY I
You gotta be in it to win it!
ROCKIES
Gotta be in the frame if you're gonna win the game
Are you ready for the big one?
ALL
Ready!
BOYS
Check it out, check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out, check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
COMPONENTS
Hey, I make Electra the one they gotta beat.
GANG
Nah - Diesel's wicked!
BUFFY AND ASHLEY
Yeah - Diesel's neat!
POPPA
What about Rusty?
ALL
You can't be serious.
GREASEBALL
Hasn't got a chance against his superiors.
ROCKIES
Check it out - buy.
ALL
Are you ready for the big one, starting any minute?
We're in it - you gotta be in it to win it.
Gotta be in the frame if you're gonna win the game
Are you ready for the big one? Ready!
Are you ready for the big one? Ready!
Are you ready for the big one? Ready!
RUSTY
If I was the winner of tonight's big fight
Pearl would come back.
DUSTIN
Yeah, that's right.
FLAT-TOP
Well then, win it. That's all you gotta do.
ELECTRA
Hey Greaseball - I'm talking to you.
You still got that Dinah hanging on a lead?
A new set of wheels is what you need.
ROCKIES
Check it out.
ALL
Are you ready for the big one?
ENGINES
Ready!
ROCKIES
Check it out.
ALL
Are you ready for the big one?
ROCKIES
Check it out.
BOYS
Check it out. Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out. Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out. Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
BOYS
Check it out. Check it out.
GIRLS
Can you believe this?
GREASEBALL
Any car here - any car you can see would be proud
GANG
Yeah, proud.
GREASEBALL
To ride with me.
RUSTY
But not Pearl.
GREASEBALL
Oh, no? Pearl's like any other.
She knows I'm a fast movin' mother.
Pearl knows she's a winner. She won't risk
Racing with that floppy disk.
ELECTRA AND COMPONENTS
Check it out, check it out.
Can you believe this?
DINAH
Greaseball stop it!
GREASEBALL
Shut it, Dinah.
ELECTRA
All software is designer.
GREASEBALL
Pearl, you know that he don't cut it.
DINAH
Greaseball stop it!
ALL
Dinah - shut it!
GREASEBALL
Pearl - come on - it's time to choose:
You wanna boil with the oil or lose with the fuse?
ALL
Are you ready for the big one? Ready!
Are you ready for the big one starting any minute?
We're in it - you gotta be in it to win it.
Unless your name's in the frame you ain't in the game.
Ready for the big one? Ready!
Check it out, check it out.
Can you believe it?
Check it out, check it out.
Can you believe it?
Are you ready for the big one starting any minute?
We're in it - you gotta be in it to win it.
Unless your name's in the frame you ain't in the game.
Ready for the big one? Ready for the big one? READY!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D
Dinah:
I've been U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D
I can't bring myself to say it. No siree
I'm a carriage with no marriage
I'm a van without a man
I've been U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D
Was I corroded or overloaded
Maybe I shamed him
Who could have blamed him
If he thought me second-class
Went in search of chrome and brass
Went to find some other fool like me
And I'm just U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D
I can't seem to stop C.R.Y.I.N.G
People look and me and think
"There she goes the missing link"
She's been U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D
And I'm just U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D
But I'll get my R.E.V.E.N.G.E
He'll come crawling back one day
And I'll turn to him and say
Go away, you B.A.S.T.A.R.D
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Rolling Stock (Reprise)
[Buffy]
Now listen, sugar, if you want him back
You'll never get him if you don't attack
[Ashley]
You got to make it so that he can't guess
When you are saying no but meaning yes
[Belle]
Slow down, you've gotta keep it going all night
[Buffy, Ashley & Belle]
Deep down inside you know that you are the best
So come on baby put it to the test
Don't stop now, you gotta keep it going all night
Rolling stock! you're rolling stock!
So let him look around & find you gone
Rolling stock! you're rolling stock!
How long you think he's gonna carry on
Come on & heat it up the way you do
No-one can keep it going longer than you
Don't stop now, you gotta keep it going all night
Rolling stock! you're rolling stock!
So get the motion in your wheels & say
Rolling stock! you're rolling stock!
From here on in it's independence day
Rolling stock! you're rolling stock
[Dinah]
I won't stop now
[Coaches]
Rolling stock! you're rolling stock
[Dinah]
I'm gonna keep it going
[Coaches]
Rolling stock! you're rolling stock
[Belle]
Don't stop now
[Coaches]
You gotta keep it going
[Belle]
Til you see him slowing
Then everything will be alright
[Coaches]
Keep it keep it keep it keep it going all night
Writer: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, RICHARD STILGOE
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Andrew Lloyd Webber - C.B.
[ Featuring Starlight Express Cast, Michael Staniforth ]
Wide smile, high style, that's me
Out front, in back, C.B.
Wrong side of the track C.B.
See the news on you TV
Rail disaster
Ever wonder why was he
Getting faster
Every time the red caboose
Takes a train
Seems to loose it's braking shoes
Can't explain
(Stop that train)
Wide smile, high style, that's me
Out front, in back, C.B.
Wrong side of the track C.B.
Hiding at the back of the freight train
Unsupected
When they robbed the great train
I collected
While the feds shake their heads
I'm on the loose
There each time at the scene of the crime
The red caboose
(Stop that train)
Wide smile, high style, that's me
Out front, in back, C.B.
Wrong side of the track C.B.
The state police they don't suspect
I got old ninety seven wrecked
Interpol don't know that I
Crossed the bridge on the river Kwai
Seems like any train that takes me
Just doesn't get the brakes
Somebody go fetch a cop
Another train just failed to stop
(Brake that train)
Wide smile, high style, that's me
Out front, in back, C.B.
Wrong side of the track C.B.
Ten four Smokey bear
I could be anywhere
You know I'm to blame
But you don't know my name
Wide smile, high style, that's me
Out front, in back, C.B.
Wrong side of the track C.B.
C.B. Hanging loose
C.B. The red caboose
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Right Place, Right Time
ROCKIES
If I had the chances,
If I had the breaks
Could have been a winner
I had what it takes
But I wasn't in the right place
At the right time.
Didn't have the rhythm,
Didn't have the rhyme.
I wasn't in the right place
At the right time.
Could've been a contender,
Could've been a star.
Never reached the finals,
Didn't get that far
'Cos I wasn't in the right place
At the right time.
Didn't have the rhythm,
Didn't have the rhyme.
I wasn't in the right place
At the right time.
Any time they seem to
Open up the door,
Slam it in your face
And knock it to the floor
'Tisn't only me son,
'Tisn't only you,
All of us are losers,
All of us are through
'Cos I wasn't in the right place,
Wasn't in the right place,
Wasn't in the right place
At the right time.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ray Shell and Lon Satton - I Am the Starlight
[ Featuring Ray Shell, Lon Satton ]
RUSTY
Starlight Express, Starlight Express...
STARLIGHT
Only you have the power within you.
Just believe in yourself -
The sea will part before you,
Stop the rain, turn the tide.
If only you use the power within you
Needn't beg the world
To turn around and help you
If you draw on what you have within you
Somewhere deep inside.
RUSTY
Starlight Express, Starlight Express
Are you real, yes or no?
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.
STARLIGHT
Rusty you're blind, look in your mind -
I'm there. Nothing's new
The Starlight Express is no more nore less
Than you Rusty. I am you.
I'm you and
STARLIGHT / RUSTY
Only you/I am the Starlight.
Have the power within you/I can achieve
Just believe in yourself/anything
The sea will part before you
Stop the rain and turn the tide/
All the things I didn't believe.
If only you/I am the Starlight.
Have the power within you/I can achieve
Just believe in yourself/anything
The sea will part before you
Stop the rain and turn the tide/
All the things I didn't believe.
If only you/I am the Starlight,
Use the power within you/I can see it throught.
Needn't beg the world to turn around and help you
If you draw on what is deep inside.
RUSTY
I won't let you down.
Writer: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, RICHARD STILGOE
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Andrew Lloyd Webber - He Whistled At Me (Reprise)
Dinah-
I'm fed up with all this racing,
This electric thin i'm chasing,
Dosent have that certain something,
That a girl expects to hear,
He never whistles at me!
It's damaging my staus,
I dont think he can whistle at me!
He lacks the aparatus,
Why do you never whistle at me?
Beginnig to suspect you!
I need someone to whistle at me,
Gonna disconnect you,
Electra-
C.B,
C.B,
Dinah's gone and made a disconnection!
C.B,
C.B,
You gotta help me in the final section!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Starlight Express Cast - Race: The Final
(spoken)
Control, control
Race time, minus one minute
Race time, minus one minute
Twenty seconds...
Ten,
Nine,
Eight,
Seven,
Six,
Five,
Four,
Three,
Two,
One....
Race time!
(instrumental)
(spoken)
I must find Pearl,
I must find Pearl,
I must find Pearl,
I must find Pearl...
Control, control
Race time, minus one minute
Race time, minus one minute
Twenty seconds...
Ten,
Nine,
Eight,
Seven,
Six,
Five,
Four,
Three,
Two,
One....
Race time!
(instrumental)
(spoken)
I must find Pearl,
I must find Pearl,
I must find Pearl,
I must find Pearl...
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - No Comeback
[ Featuring Starlight Express Cast, Jeffrey Daniel ]
ELECTRA:
Clear my track you had your chance now
I'll find another line, no comeback!
Losing's not my style so I can't show my face now
Find another place now, didn't win so I'll go
Don't try to persuade me, losing always wrecks it
This is my last exit - stand by to fade me!
No comeback this is the last time
We never meet again, no comeback
No comeback this is the last time
We never meet again, no comeback
No come, no come, no come, no come,
No comeback! No comeback!
No come, no come, no come, no come,
No comeback! No comeback!
Adieu, mon ami
Addio, mia carra
Auf Wiedersehen, meine liebe
Sayonara...
EAT MY DUST!
No comeback this is the last time
We never meet again, no comeback
No comeback this is the last time
We never meet again, no comeback!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - One Rock 'N' Roll Too Many
Greaseball and CB:
One Rock 'n' Roll too many
One night's sleep too few
Too much ringing that bell
Takes its toll out of you
Greaseball:
The sound's too loud
CB:
The light's too bright
Greaseball:
My chains are too heavy
And my shoes are too tight
Greasball and CB:
One Rock 'n' Roll too many
Takes its toll... out of you
One Rock 'n' Roll too many
I can't take no more
Greaseball:
Whaddya say?
CB:
I can't hear nothing
Greaseball:
Whaddya say?
Electra:
I can't hear nothing
Greaseball:
I can't hear nothing
CB:
Whaddya say?
Greaseball and CB:
I said one Rock 'n' Roll too many
Takes its toll...
And the soul...
Out of you!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Only He
[ Featuring Starlight Express Cast, Stephanie Lawrence ]
Look at me a woman, calm and in control
No silly girl whose head's always turning
Nobody would guess that deep inside my soul
A brand new flame is burning
Only he has the power to move me
And together we'd make the whole world move in sympathy
But I couldn't see before
That only he has the power to move me
Take me, hold me, mold me, change me and improve me
It's not funny anymore
Only he can make my burden light
Only he can make a wrong seem right
Only he can make the shadows bright
And make the darkness gleaming white
He
Him and me
Only he has the power to move me
All the nights I've wasted dreaming of the time
When I'd discover the one to guide me
Searching the horizon, didn't realize
That all the time he was beside me
Only he has the power to move me
And together we'd make the whole world move in sympathy
Hope and pray that I'm in time
Only he can stand and wait that long
Stand by me while I was going wrong
What if he couldn't wait?
Have I left it too late?
Only he has the power to move me
And together we'd make the whole world move in sympathy
Him and me we'd be sublime
And he still would never guess
That next time I'm gonna answer yes
Does he know if he comes back today,
This time I'm gonna make him stay?
He
Only he
Only he has the power every day, every hour
He moves me
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Barrowman and Janis Kelly - Only You
[ Featuring John Barrowman, Janis Kelly ]
Only you have to power to move me
And together we'll make the whole
World move in sympathy
But I could see before
Only you have the power to move me
Take me hold me mold me
Change me and improve
It's not funny any more
There was I wondering why
Every days a peer into the distance
Now with you the light is shining through
You gave me life not just existence
Only you have the power to move me
And together we'll make the whole
World move in sympathy
Only you have the power to move me
There was I wondering why
Every days a peer into the distance
Now with you the light is shining through
You gave me life not just existence
Only you have the power to move me
And together we'll make the whole
World move in sympathy
Bright in up the darkest sky
If only you use the power to move me
Take me hold me mold me
Change me and improve me
We can make it happen you and I
Writer: GENE SIMMONS
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Capitol CMG Publishing
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Capitol CMG Publishing
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Light at the End of the Tunnel
[ Featuring Starlight Express, Jade Marvin ]
POPPA
Diesel is for unbelievers. Electricity is wrong.
Steam has got the power that will pull us along -
There's a light at the end of the tunnel
There's a light at the end of the tunnel
The inside might be as black as the night
ALL
But there's a light at the end of the tunnel
There's a light at the end of the tunnel
The inside might be as black as the night
But at the end of the tunnel there's a light.
POPPA
It's the power of James Watt, the steaming Scot
ALL
The man sho watched the pot and said "Hey, I've got
A brilliant plot: when the steam is hot
It seems to make a lot of power"
POPPA
It could turn a wheel ...
ALL
Lots of power ...
POPPA
It could drive it down a track ...
ALL
Clickety clack, clinkety clack...
POPPA
It could drive it with a beat ...
ALL
Choo-choo-choo...
With enough left over for a
Whoo-whoo!
He saw the light at the end of the tunnel
I said he saw the light at the end of the tunnel
POPPA
Thanks James Watt (thank you Mr Watt)
For watching the pot
ALL
He saw a light at the end of the tunnel
He saw a light at the end of the tunnel
The inside might be s black as the mnight
But at the end of the tunnel there's a light.
POPPA
There are dark days ahead
When the power goes dead.
When the oil runs dry
What can we try?
ALL
We could use the sunlight
POPPA
Bit it don't shine at night.
ALL
Nuclear fission
Leaves a nasty emission.
POPPA
Soon the pistons will be humming
Steam will have a second coming -
ALL
We saw light at the end of the tunnel
We saw light at the end of the tunnel
Just dig a hole and haul out the coal
We saw light at the end of the tunnel
We saw light at the end of the tunnel
So let the water boil - goodbye to oil
At the end of the tunnel there's a light.
We saw light at the end of the tunnel (we see the light)
We saw light at the end of the tunnel (we see the light)
When the Angel Gabriel blows his magic toot
We saw light at the end of the tunnel (we see the light)
We saw light at the end of the tunnel (we see the light)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Starlight Express is a 1984 musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, who races in a championship against modern locomotives of diesel and electric engines in the hope of impressing a first-class observation car, Pearl. Famously, the actors perform on roller skates.
Running for 7,409 performances in London, Starlight Express is the ninth-longest-running West End show. It is the most successful musical in Germany, where it has been performed in a purpose-built theatre since 1988, holding the Guinness World Record for most visitors to a musical in a single theatre.
Genre(s):
Soundtrack, Musical Running for 7,409 performances in London, Starlight Express is the ninth-longest-running West End show. It is the most successful musical in Germany, where it has been performed in a purpose-built theatre since 1988, holding the Guinness World Record for most visitors to a musical in a single theatre.
Length: 98:00
Released: January 1st, 1984
Year: 1984