the train

no i'm not color blind
i know the world is black and white
i try to keep an open mind
but i just can't sleep on this tonight

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

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 away to say that life has just begun

had a talk with my old man
said "help me understand"
he said "turn sixty-eight"
"you'll renegotiate"

"don't stop this train
don't for a minute change the place you're in
and don't think i couldn't ever understand
i tried my hand
john, honestly we'll never stop this train"

once in a while, when it's good
it'll feel like it should
when you'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 stop this train i want to get out and go home again
i can't take this speed it's moving in
i know i can't
cause now i see i'll never stop this train.


thank you john mayer.