[Verse 1]


No I'm not col

or blind 
              
I know the wor

              
ld is black an

  
d white

Try to keep an

 open mind but

...
              
I just can't s

             
leep on this t


onight


[Chorus]

             
Stop this trai

              
n I want to ge

             
t off and go h

ome again
              
I can't take t

              
he speed it's 


moving in
I know I can't
             
But honestly w

            
on't someone s

         
top this train


[Verse 2]

             
Don't know how

              
 else to say i

              
t, don't want 

              
to see my pare

  
nts go

One generation

's length away
              
From fighting 

              
life out on my

 
 own


[Chorus]

             
Stop this trai

              
n I want to ge

             
t off and go h

ome again
              
I can't take t

              
he speed it's 


moving in
I know I can't
             
But honestly w

            
on't someone s

         
top this train


[Bridge]


So scared of g

etting older
              
I'm only good 

         
at being young
             
So I play the 

              
numbers game t

              
o find away to

              
 say that life

          
 has just begu


n

Had a talk wit

h my old man
Said help me understand
             
He said turn 6

              
8, you'll rene

 
gotiate

Don't stop thi

s train
              
Don't for a mi

              
nute change th

  
e place you're

 in
              
Don't think I 

              
couldn't ever 


understand
I tried my hand
             
John, honestly

             
 we'll never s

        
top this train


[Verse]

             
See once in a 

            
while when it'

  
s good
              
It'll feel lik

     
e it should
             
And they're al

        
l still around
            
And you're sti

            
ll safe and so

und
             
And you don't 

       
miss a thing
            
'til you cry w

            
hen you're dri

            
ving away in t

   
he dark.


[Chorus]

             
Singing stop t

              
his train I wa

              
nt to get off 

       
and go home ag

ain
              
I can't take t

              
his speed it's

 
 moving in
I know I can't
             
Cause now I se

            
e I'll never s

         
top this train