Moving Too Fast Lyrics by The Last 5 Years the Musical

Moving Too Fast Lyrics


    JAMIE
    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 turing 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 flying 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 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 every 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 get 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 supposed 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'tregret 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

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