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Starlight Express
Overture
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!
Who will win? Will it be diesel?
Will it be electric? Or will it be steam?
The tension is unbearable here at the track tonight!
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, are you near?
Starlight Express, Starlight Express...
Entry of National Trains
Control: This is control, this is control
Tonight is race night
Let's hear it for the champion engines of the world
From France the 120 mph Sudest. The power of the Sudest - Bobo
From Italy - the Rome to Milan Express - the Settebello. Powered by Espresso
From Germany - right on time - the Inter-Continental Express. Powered by Ruhrgold
From Russia - as fast as possible - the Trans-Siberian Express. Powered by Turnov
From Japan - the Shinkanssen bullet train - the power of the bullet - Nintendo
From Great Britain - battling through the wrong kind of snow - the Royal Train. Powered by the Prince of Wales
British Rail announce a delay in the arrival of the Royal Train. This is due to staffing difficulties
And from the US of A - the reigning champion: the greatest diesel locomotive in history - the Union Pacific
Powered by - Greaseball
Rolling Stock
Greaseball: I'm just the fastest thing you'll ever see
+ Gang: That streak of lightning you just missed was me
+ National Trains: 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
Call Me Rusty
Rusty: Woo woo, woo woo
Nobody can do it like a steam train
Woo woo, woo woo
Nobody can do it like a steam train
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 keen 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
A Lotta Locomotion
Pearl: A lotta locomotion, that's what we need
+ Dinah: From a locomotive who can take the lead
+ Buffy: From the eastern ocean to the western sea
+ Ashley: 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
Dinah: My name is 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
Buffy: I'm Buffy, have a sandwich, each one is curled by hand
Ashley: I'm Ashley, I'm a smoker, the last one in the land
Buffy: I stack the snacks in plastic packs, the range is really wide
Ashley: Eat the plastic, that's fantastic
Buffy: But don't touch what's inside
All: 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
Other three: What are you gonna do?
Pearl: What d'you think?
All: A lotta locomotion, under the sun
Gonna try them all until she finds the one
From the eastern ocean to the coast out west
Pearl: Gonna test them all until I find the best
All: A lotta locomotion, that's what we need
From the eastern ocean to the western sea
Locomotion's gonna carry me
Freight
Dinah: Oh no
Buffy: Oh shucks
Pearl: It's the freight train
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: Let'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, (Coaches): Freight is great (That's brilliant!)
Freight is great (Don't you wish you'd thought of that?)
We carry weight 'cos we are freight
And freight is great (One more time!)
Freight is great (Did you think of that all by yourselves?)
Freight is great (It's so profound!)
We never sulk, we hulk the bulk
'Cos freight is great (Well I certainly learned something today!)
We never make a fuss, we got the goods on us
We take the loads from off the roads
And freight is great (You just listen to what the coach says!)
Coaches: Couldn't stand gravel and sand
Being ignored, no one aboard
Nobody complaining, we were late again
I should hate carrying freight
Nobody living in me
Got to be a living breathing passenger train
Freight: Freight is great, freight is great
Coaches: (Freight) Couldn't stand gravel and sand
Being ignored, no one aboard (is great)
Nobody 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
Coaches: It's Mommas and Poppas
Freight: It's commerce and hoppers
Coaches: It's daughters and sons
Freight: It's quarters and tons
They get in your hair
Coaches: It's the fun of the fare
Freight: Freight
Coaches: Folks
Freight: Tares
Coaches: Fares
Passengers, commuters and mail
Freight: Trees and meat, gravel and shale
All: Are great, are great, are great
Are great, are great
Control: Control. Control. You wagons and passenger cars just cut it out
Trucks will identify themselves. Box cars:
Rocky: 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
Wait for the sharp corner to come
And open the door - bye bye, bum!
Freight: Freight is great
Control: Brick truck.
Flat top: Flat top, who you looking at?
Yeah, there's bricks, what's wrong with that?
No, you're right, they don't all match -
Yeah, they're heavy - here, catch!
All: 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
Travelling with gravel in
& Flat top: Praying that we don't get wet
Water and mortar, do things they didn't oughta
Empty me before I set
Freight: 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
Freight: None of us may be a genius
But we know one thing, what we know is
Freight: Freight is great
Freight is great
Freight is great
Coaches: (Freight) Couldn't stand gravel and sand
Being ignored, no one aboard (is great)
Nobody 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
Coaches: It's Mommas and Poppas
Freight: It's commerce and hoppers
Coaches: It's daughters and sons
Freight: It's quarters and tons
They get in your hair
Coaches: It's the fun of the fare
Freight: Freight
Coaches: Folks
Freight: Tares
Coaches: Fares
Passengers, commuters and mail
Freight: Trees and meat, gravel and shale
On the rails, on the rails, on the rails, on the rails
All: Are great, are great, are great, are great, are great
Control: This is Control.This is Control. Race time minus ten minutes
Sorry, we have a technical problem!
Nothing to worry about...
Oh, boy, a late entry. A superstar challenger. These must be his minders
Pearl: He's got a gun!
Krupp: Halt. I am Krupp, Electra's armaments truck
Rocky: Who's Electra?
Krupp: We ask the questions
Wrench: I am Wrench, Electra's repair truck
Dustin: This Electra must be rich to have his own repair truck
Flat-Top: Or unreliable
Purse: I am Purse, Electra's money truck
Electra is rich. Switch your allegiance to Electra
Volta: I am Volta, Electra's freezer truck
Joule: I am Joule, Electra's dynamite truck
Volta: Electra is cool
Joule: Electra is hot
Volta: Cool
Joule: Hot
Company: A megastar. A megawatt
Rich, hot, powerful - rich, hot, cool
Rich, hot, powerful - rich, hot, cool
Electra ... Electra ... Electra ... Electra ...
AC/DC
Electra: I am electric - feel my attraction
Feel my magnetism - you will agree
I am electric - I have the contact
I am electric - the future is me
AC/DC it's okay by me
I can switch and change my frequency
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
AC/DC it's okay by me
I can switch and change my frequency
Company: Electra ... Electra ... Electra ...
Electra: I am electric - resistance is pointless
Feel my magnetism - you will agree
You can't ignore me, you must adore me
I am electric, come closer to me
AC/DC it's okay by me
I can switch and turn you on to me
Can switch and turn you on to me
Can switch and turn you on to me
Company: Electra ... Electra ... Electra ... Electra ...
Electra: I can switch and change my frequency
Greaseball: Hold it!
Control: Oh boy, here comes trouble.
Coaches: It's Greaseball, it's Greaseball, Greaseball the diesel
Control: It's the reigning champion!
Coaches: It's Greaseball, it's Greaseball, Greaseball the diesel
Choose me Greaseball, race with me
Dinah: Back off girls - he's mine!
Pumping Iron
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
The undisputed leader of the Rolling Stock
Greaseball: See me knock
Greaseball: See me hustle, feel my muscle
+ (Coaches): 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
Hey, I'm knocking, you know I'm knocking, said I'm knocking hey-
Heading for the rally (heading for the rally)
Gonna win the first race (gonna win the first race)
I'm gonna run the longest (the biggest and the strongest)
I'm knocking, said I'm knocking, you know I'm knocking
Well - I'm so beautiful -
I'm pumping iron
Coda of Freight
Greaseball: You, you're overloaded
Electra: I'm electric taking over
Greaseball: You'll have to beat diesel
Dinah: Take on diesel
Greaseball, Dinah: Take on diesel
Components: Electricity is taking charge
Electra: I will enter - I will win
Greaseball: You'll never win, you'll never win
Bobo: It will be me
Rusty: Listen to me, listen to me
Ruhrgold: What was that hiss?
Rusty: I'm gonna enter
Espresso: Who is this?
Prince of Wales: It's old and it's dusty,
It's can't be, it's Rusty
Turnov: He's going to race
Nintendo: He's going to lose face
Rusty: I'm going to enter
I'll be victorious, I'm gonna win
Rusty, (Engines): Earth, water, air, fire
(You'll never win, you'll never win)
(I'm gonna beat you, I'm gonna beat you)
See the steam rise higher
(Haven't a chance, haven't a chance)
(I'm gonna win it, yes, I'm gonna win)
Earth, water, air, fire
(I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win)
(I'm gonna beat you, I'm gonna beat you)
See the steam rise higher
(I'm gonna win the race)
(I'll be victorious, I'm gonna win)
All: Locomotion ... locomotion ...
Components: Go, electricity ... go, electricity ...
Coaches: It's Mommas and Poppas
Freight: It's commerce and hoppers
Coaches: It's daughters and sons
Freight: It's quarters and tons
They get in your hair
Coaches: It's the fun of the fare
Freight: Freight
Coaches: Folks
Freight: Tares
Coaches: Fares
Passengers, commuters and mail
Freight: Trees and meat, gravel and shale
On the rails, on the rails, on the rails, on the rails
All: Beware of the engine intent on avenging
Defeat by a rival who's bent on survival
Look out for the carriage who's out to disparage
The wagons who battle and rattle and prattle
Are great, are great, are great, are great, are great
Control: Control, control. This is turning into a real grudge match! Take a chill pill, everyone!
We're gonna race and you don't race without a partner
We've got five minutes to race time!
Ashley: Come on Rusty
Ashley/Buffy: You heard what he said
Rusty: All right, wait a minute! What's the matter, Pearl?
Don't you want to race with the fastest engine in the world?
Pearl: I'd love to, Rusty, but where is he?
Rusty: Right here!
Crazy
Rusty: Where I go the rest better follow
Look out everybody, move aside
May go now or may go tomorrow
Hold on, I'll take you for a ride
Coaches: Crazy - can you believe him?
He's crazy - love him or leave him
He's crazy, goin' crazy, goin' crazy
Rusty: Watch me, see me, hit that horizon
Pearl: Take it slowly, what you got to prove?
Rusty: Ride with me, you'll know you've been riding
No one can move the way I move!
Coaches: Crazy - can you believe him?
He's crazy - love him or leave him
He's crazy, goin' crazy, goin' crazy
Rusty: Hold on tight, I'll turn up the pressure
Must be right, no way it can be wrong
You and me go steamin' together
Pearl: Till someone better comes along
Coaches: Crazy - can you believe him?
He's crazy - love him or leave him
He's crazy, goin' crazy, goin' crazy
Rusty: You know I'm crazy - yeah!
Coaches: Crazy - can you believe him?
He's crazy - love him or leave him
He's crazy, goin' crazy, goin' crazy
Goin' crazy, goin' crazy, goin' crazy
Goin' crazy!
Purse: Pearl, you've been honoured
Pearl, you've been chosen
Electra has selected you for heat one
Rusty: He has a coach!
Purse: His coach has a headache
Also he says you're second to none
Please come - I'll be fired if you won't
Pearl: Can he whistle?
Purse: No - AC trains don't
Pearl: Rusty needs me, which way should I go?
Thank Electra, say I'll let him know
Rusty: What's all this, you have a partner
Pearl: Well -
Rusty: Yes you do! We're all set
Pearl: I've always said that if someone new -
Rusty: You fell for the posing, you fell for the star
Pearl: You don't understand, that's not how things are
I must have time -
Rusty: But Pearl -
Pearl: No! Let me work it out my way
I must be free to leave you, Rusty
That's the only way I'm free to stay
Make Up My Heart
Pearl: It's time to choose between the two of them
I'd better make a start
Someone help me make up my heart
Tell me how to make up my heart
They say two lovers can be twice the fun
They think they're being smart
Someone help me make up my heart
Tell me how to make up my heart
One of them is strong, one of them is good
But both could turn out wrong, so who gets the part?
Make up my mind, make up my heart.
I don't want one to win and one to lose
Can't tell them yes or no
Choosing one means letting one go
I can't face letting one of them go
You'd think two lovers would be twice the fun
It's tearing me apart
Someone help me make up my heart
Tell me how to make up my heart
One of them has style, sets the world alight
The other makes me smile, so who gets the part?
Make up my mind, make up my heart
So who gets the part?
Make up my mind, make up my heart
It's time to choose between the two of them
I'd better make a start
Someone help me make up my heart
Tell me how to make up my heart
One of them has style, sets the world alight
The other makes me smile, so who gets the part?
Make up my mind, make up my heart
One of them is strong, one of them is good
But both could turn out wrong
So who gets the part?
Please someone help me make up my heart
Tell me how to make up my heart
Rusty: Did you have to break up my -
Control: Get lost Rusty
Race One
Control: Control. Control. Race time minus two minutes
Listen up, 'cos these are the rules.
We got two eliminator heats, and the first two trains in each heat make the final
Got that? Two heats, two qualifiers from each heat
Any foul play, and you're back in the box!
Heat one. Heat one. Race time minus one minute
In track one: Greaseball the diesel, with Dinah the dining car
In track two: Espresso the Settebello, with Buffy the buffet car
In track three: Nintendo the bullet train, with Krupp the armaments truck
In track four: Electra the engine of the future, with Pearl the observation car
Twenty seconds. 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 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.
Poppa's Blues
Rocky 1: Hey, Poppa's gonna sing
Flat-Top: That stuff is so out of date
Rocky 1: 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
Rusty, why you looking sad?
Rusty: I got no hope - Pearl decided she's not racing with me
Poppa: So take Rocky with you
Rockies: Better, take three
Poppa: Maybe Flat-top would be good
Rusty: No, Poppa, no! For all the chance I've got
I might as well take Dustin
Sorry, Dustin, but you could stand to lose a few pounds
Poppa: Rusty, you ain't got no faith
I am a steamer, I was a champion once
You like the rest, you're just blind
Rusty: No, no, I see good. There ain't no power in steam no more
Electricity is faster now
Poppa: No! Now boy, let me hear you say 'Steam!'
Rusty: Steam...
Poppa: Now let me hear you all say 'Steam!'
All: Steam!
Flat-top: Oil! Oil! Oil!
Poppa: Oil? Oil is the work of the diesel himself!
How many times have you found though you were firm on the grou