Stop This Train

I’ve been listening to a lot of old school John Mayer lately (read: daily playlists all 10 hours at my office desk lol) and this song is really just getting to me right now. It’s a classic. I mean, is there a more perfect song about youth?

True songwriters (and musicians) like Mayer never cease to amaze me. Thank you for creating.

Stop This Train

John Mayer

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 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’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 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’ll never stop this train.

Songwriters: John Clayton Mayer / Pino Palladino

Stop This Train lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reach Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management