Pressure Up/The Mutiny by King Kong the Musical Original Broadway Cast Lyrics

["Pressure Up"]

CAPTAIN ENGLEHORN
When I’m at home, I dream of the ocean
When I’m on the ocean, I dream about home
We're sailing in blindness, miles from kindness
New York behind us, ahead the unknown

Denham tells a good story
Promises fortune and glory
But always short on detail
What happens to us if we fail?
I gotta get me some answers
Denham dodges and dances
Time to know what he knows
Over the waves, we roll, gotta keep the pressure up

ENGLEHORN AND CREW
Coal in the fire
Fire in the water
Water in the boiler
Gotta keep the pressure up
Pressure up
(Keep the pressure, pressure up.)
Pressure up!
(Keep the, keep the, keep the pressure up.)
(Fire in the water, water into vapor, vapor now escape to push the piston down, push the piston up.)
Pressure up, keep the, keep the pressure, pressure up
Pressure up! I gotta keep the pressure up!
ENGLEHORN AND (CREW)
Another week running, (Running)
And Denham says nothing. (Nothing)
He's slippery and cunning, (Cunning)

ENGLEHORN
Won't show us the map...
A darker sky’s coming
Oh, please tell us something
(+ CREW)
If it weren’t for the money
I’d knock him out flat!

ENGLEHORN (spoken)
Denham!

ENGLEHORN AND CREW
Coal in the fire, fire in the water, water in the boiler
Gotta keep the pressure up

ENGLEHORN
Pressure up

CREW
Keep the pressure, pressure up
ENGLEHORN
Pressure up!

CREW
I gotta keep the pressure up!

["The Mutiny"]

CREW
Nothing but hopelessness left
Mutiny lives on our breath
He’s sailing us straight to our death
Push the piston down, push the piston up…
Death on the water, water in the boiler
All of us destroyed for one man’s ambition
A man who demands we obey…
But I won't obey!