Stop this Train

No I'm not color blind

I know the world is black and white

I try to keep an open mind

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 will someone stop this train

Don't know how else to say it,

don't want to see my parents go

One generation's length away

From fighting life out on my own

Come on 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 68

you'll renegotiate"

"Don't stop this train

Dont' 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

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.

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Lyrics by John Mayer and appropriate for me given that today is December 1st. With only one month left till the end of this year, feeling like John and wanting to get off the train. And as my parents 50th Wedding approches next year...and as they age in years...I don't want to see them go. Yes, I can fight life on my own even but there's a difference in living and living well. As 2006 comes to an end, here's to a safe and sound 2007 and another year of living well.