(Don't) Stop this Train

No, I'm not colorblind I know the world is black and white

try to keep an open mind but I just can't sleep on this tonight

Stop this train I wanna 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...don't want to see my parents go

one generation's lenght away from fighting life out on my own

So scared of being 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

and don't think I couldn't ever understand...I tried my hand

Son 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

Stop this train I wanna 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?