AN OLD MAN OF STEEL
words & music by
Tim Ponzek © 1995

Faster than a speeding bullet, words are just like that
Hard and loud and deadly, impossible to call back
I tried to block the words I spoke; but I wasn’t fast enough
My words ripped right through her heart,
like a bullet through our love

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I thought I was a superman and I could do anything at all
But I was just a stubborn man and I was destined to fall
I thought I had an iron will; but that’s been weakened by doubt
I’m just An Old Man Of Steel, all rusted out
Just An Old Man Of Steel, all rusted out

More powerful than a locomotive, ideas are just like that
With tons and tons of ego pushing them down the track
That train was full of my suspicions and I couldn’t make it stop
And our love was stretched out on the rail;
now there’s nothing left to pick up

chorus
I thought I was a superman and I could do anything at all
But I was just a stubborn man and I was destined to fall
I thought I had an iron will; but that’s been weakened by doubt
I’m just An Old Man Of Steel, all rusted out
Just An Old Man Of Steel, all rusted out

I wasn’t able to leap a tall building;
that was a compromise I couldn’t surmount
Stone by stone, the building grew larger;
while my feet barely left the ground

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I couldn’t leap high enough and she knew I never could
And all of my powers, in the end, they came to no good
I thought I had an iron will; but I finally figured it out
I’m just An Old Man Of Steel, all rusted out
Just An Old Man Of Steel, all rusted out
I’m just An Old Man Of Steel, all rusted out