The Vault

Do it like you practiced

With no one watching in the stands

So do it like you practiced

Cuz now the world is in your hands

Do it like you practiced

Do it like you practiced

It's just a run then a roundoff

And a twist and a half

Just a run then a roundoff

And a twist and a half

Ignore the pit in your stomach

And the pain in your calf

With just a run then a roundoff

And a twist and a half

Do it like you dreamed of

(Carry us, Kerri, there's hope for us still)

You know how it's gonna feel

(Carry us, Kerri, I know that you will)

So do it like you dreamed of

And then the dream is finally real

(Carry us, Kerri, you gotta push through)

Do it like you dreamed of

(Carry us, Kerri)

Do it like you dreamed of

(It's all up to you)

It's just a run then a roundoff

And a twist and a half

Just a run then a roundoff

And a twist and a half

(Carry us, Kerri)

This is your moment

To get the last laugh

With just a run then a roundoff

And a twist and a half

(Carry us, Kerri)

Simple

It's simple

It happens in a second

Simple

It's simple

You blink and then it's done

Easy

It's easy

Go through the motions

And just like that

You wo -

Always almost

(She was on the Wheaties box)

Always reaching

(And you can be on the Wheaties box)

Always narrow miss

(No you can't let it show)

Never my time

Never my turn

Always waiting on something

Always waiting on something

I've been waiting on something

Just like this

(You can't let it show

No you can't let it show)

Just like this

You can do it

You can do it

Nothing to it

Just a crack

You can do it

You can do it

Don't let an ankle

Hold you back

You can do it

You can do it

Just push through it

Now or never

You can do it

You can do it

Pain's a moment

Gold's forever

It's just a run then a roundoff

And a twist and a half

You run for your coaches

You run for your parents and teachers

You run for your uncle who spent three whole paychecks

To cheer for you up in the bleachers

You run for you sister

Who gave you your very first Mary Lou doll

You run for their heartache

You run for their triumphs

You have to run for them all

You roundoff for Amy

You roundoff for both Dominiques

You roundoff for Jaycie, Amanda, and Shannon

Who've been like your family for weeks

You roundoff for Katie

And Jennie, Theresa, and Mary Beth, too

And all of the others

Who didn't quite make it

Cuz you know they'd roundoff for you

Now twist for the girl

Who was crying because she was scared of her first somersault

Twist for the girl

Who the first time she saw it said she'd never get on a vault

Twist for the girl

Who drew pictures that had all her favorite gymnasts' names

Twist for the girl

Who wore out three copies of a tape of the eighty-four Games

Twist for the girl who dreamed she'd be

The girl you always were

Now throw in that half-turn for her

I land for my country

I land for the whole U.S.A.

I land for Atlanta and Phoenix and Texas

All the places I've been on my way

I land for the nation

The home of the brave and the land of the free

It may cost my ankle

It may cost my childhood

It may cost a future I never will see

But I land

I land

I land

I land

And I stick the landing for me

Let me stick the landing for me

(Kerri)

I will stick it for me