Moving Too Fast - Jason Robert Brown

Did I just hear an alarm start ringing?

Did I see sirens go flying past?

Though I don’t know what tomorrow’s bringing

I’ve got a singular impression things are moving too fast

I’m gliding smooth as a figure skater

I’m riding hot as a rocket blast —

I just expected it ten years later

I’ve got a singular impression things are moving too fast

And you say, «Oh, no

Step on the brakes

Do whatever it takes

But stop this train!

Slow, slow!

The light’s turning red!»

But I say: No!

No!

Whatever I do

I barrel on through

And I don’t complain

No matter what I try, I’m flyin' full speed ahead!

I’m never worried to walk the wire

I won’t do anything just «half-assed,»

But with the stakes getting somewhat higher

I’ve got a singular impression that things are moving too fast

I found a woman I love

And I found an agent who loves me —

Things might get bumpy, but

Some people analyze ev’ry detail

Some people stall when they can’t see the trail

Some people freeze out of fear that they’ll fail

But I keep rollin' on

Some people can’t find success with their art

Some people never feel love in their heart

Some people can’t tell the two things apart

But I keep rollin' on

Oh, oh — maybe I can’t follow through

But oh, oh — what else am I s’pposed to do?

I dreamed of writing like the high and mighty —

Now I’m the subject of a bidding war!

I met my personal Aphrodite —

I’m doing things I never dreamed of before!

We start to take the next step together —

Found an apartment on Seventy-Third!

The Atlantic Monthly’s printing my first chapter —

Two thousand bucks without rewriting one word!

I left Columbia and I don’t regret it —

I wrote a book and Sonny Mehta read it!

My heart’s been stolen!

My ego’s swollen!

I just keep rollin' along!

And I think, «Well, well, what else is in store?

Got all this and more

Before twenty-four!»

It’s hard not to be sure I’m spinning out of control!

Out of control!

I’m feeling panicked and rushed and hurried!

I’m feeling outmaneuvered and outclassed

But I’m so happy I can’t get worried

About this singular impression —

I’ve got a singular impression things are moving too fast!