Stop this Train

No, I'm not colorblind

I know the world is black and white

I try to keep an open mind

But I just can't sleep on this tonight



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Stop this train I want to get off and go home again

I can't take the speed it's moving in, I know I can't

But honestly, won't someone stop this train?



Don't know how else to say it

I don't want to see my parents go

One generation's length away

From fighting life out on my own



CHORUS

Stop this train I want to get off and go home again

I can't take the speed it's moving in, I know I can't

But honestly, won't someone stop this train?



So scared of getting older

I'm only good at being young

So I play the numbers game

To find a way to say that life has just begun



Had a talk with my old man

Said, "Help me understand"

He said "Turn sixty-eight

You renegotiate"



"Don't stop this train

Don't for a minute change the place you're in

Don't think I couldn't ever understand

I tried my hand

John, honestly we'll never stop this train."



Once in awhile, when it's good

It'll feel like it should

And they're all still around

And you're still safe and sound

And you don't miss a thing

Till you cry when you're driving away in the dark

Singing,



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Stop this train I want to get off and go home again

I can't take the speed it's moving in, I know I can't

Cause now I see, I will never stop this train