Starlight Express

ACT ONE: STARLIGHT EXPRESS

RUSTY
When your good nights have been said
And you are lying in bed
With the covers pulled up tight
And though you count every sheep
You get the feeling that sleep
Is going to stay away tonight.

That's when you hear it coming
That is when you hear the humming of the
Starlight Express, Starlight Express,
Are you real, yes or no?
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.

Want you to take me away
But bring me home before daylight
And in the time between
Take me to everywhere
But don't abandon me there
Just want to say I've been.

I believe in you completely
Though I may be dreaming sweetly of the
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.

And if you're there
And if you know
Then show me which way
I should go.

Starlight Express, Starlight Express,
Are you real, yes or no?
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.




ACT TWO: I AM THE STARLIGHT

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
The sea will part before you Anything
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 see it through.

Needn't beg the world to turn around and help you
If you draw on what is deep inside.

Rusty
(spoken)
I won't let you down.