Twenty years with my brain in a book

Tryin' to find out who I am.

Endless nights and Olympian dreams

Of a race I never ran



Someone's callin' my name

It's the crowd in the stands

Don't know how I became

What I suddenly am...



(Chorus)

Marathon man keep a-runnn'

Marathon man keep a-runnin'

I've been searchin' so long

But the answer is finally at hand

I'm a marathon man.



Wind is gone and my head's in haze

But I must keep up the pace

Got to think about strategy here

If I hope to win the race.



Someone's callin' my name

It's the crowd in the stands

Concentrate on the pain

Put my soul in command.



Wasting my youth

Chasing dreams, testing truth

Taking turns being deceived

And deceivin'

Bound with a rope

Made of heroes and hope

'Till I found nothin' left

To believe in.



Copyright 1976 C.A.M.-U.S.A.

Keyed by George Bounacos (http://www1.allware.com/~bounacos