Stop This Train
John Mayer
Continuum (2006)

Standard tuning

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[Intro] 

     x4


[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 k

now I can't
       
But honest   -

          
   ly won't so

           
meone stop thi

  (    
s 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 k

now I can't
       
But honest   -

          
   ly won't so

           
meone stop thi

  (    
s train


[Interlude]

        x2


[Verse 3] 


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 u

nderstand
          
He said turn 6

       
8, you'll rene

gotiate


[Chorus]

      
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, honest  

            
 -   ly we'll 

         
never stop thi

  (            
s train


[Bridge]

             
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 a - way i

      
n the 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 see I'll ne

           
ver stop this 

      
train 


[Outro]