Head of Steam

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Head of Steam

Moving yes, I'm moving, yes, I'm rolling along Cruising on maneuvers and the pressure is strong Locomotion my devotion, unopposable force Immovable object: I never change course

My head is like a locomotive boiler under pressure No room for thoughts or feelings only blind determination My heart is like the engine room stoked full of coal A piston pump fires my mechanical soul If I'm heading your direction well you better not stray Don't even think of crossing, I got the right of way You don't question physics, you don't argue with the cops And even if I wanted to I don't think I could stop

I ain't got hopes or dreams Ain't got plans or schemes But I got a head of steam

This moment is my momentous occasion to say Momentum is my mantra, and I'm motoring all day [Recalcitrant] Implacable, intransigent, excuse me coming through Sure as Mohammed was an Arab, sure as Jesus was a Jew

You know I will not be diverted and I should not be mistook If you don't like the cover then you sure won't like the book I cleave to my trajectory with all deliberate speed Do I have to spell it out for you? It's * I-N-E-R-T-I-A *

I ain't got hopes or dreams Ain't got plans or schemes But I got a head of steam

I ain't no:

  • Steamroller
  • Cement mixer
  • Pile driver (not your)

  • Neutron Bomb

  • your Weed whacker
  • you Trash compacter not your
  • Roomba, baby sure aint your
  • Sledgehammer

No early warning—no mojo filter Can't speed me up and you can't slow me down I stay right here in the middle, all my weight on the plow Don't look left, don't look right, don't look up, don't look down

All the scientists may speculate If I'm a particle or whether I'm a wave They can't heat me up and they can't cool me down I'm a force of nature Force of nature

Ain't got hopes or dreams Ain't got plans or schemes

But I got a head of steam

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