The Saturday Post: Stop this train edition
Saturday, August 4, 2012 Two weeks from today, my oldest daughter will turn 30 years old.
THIRTY!
How can that be?
I'm not usually one to balk about my age or getting older, but by golly, I think it's time to stop this train—or at least slow it down a bit, just long enough for me to wrap my head around this thing.
Stop This Train by John Mayer
No I'm not color blind
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 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, 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 my 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
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
Don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my hand
John, honestly we'll never stop this train
Now, 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
'til you cry when you're driving away in the dark
Singing stop this train I want to get off and go back home again
I can't take the speed this thing is moving in
I know I can't
Cause now I see I'm never gonna stop this train
Enjoy your Saturday!
Reader Comments (11)
Thanks for sharing this pretty song. I'd never heard it before and oh, so true. I've already seen a parent go and watched my daughter turn 30, but I figure the blessings that come with age make up for the speed it's moving in.
However, I'll admit I'm darn sad about my Granddaughter starting kindergarten this year. It can't be possible. Please stop this train!
Pretty song, tho' sad words. I can't believe the speed with which Life's Train is traveling either. I'm always saying, it seems, "What? WHAT?" but I'm proud of how you and Jim have lived and taught your girls to live, how to be. At my age, you take what you get and just be glad you've survived to see it, even through the haze of it's speed in arriving.
I wasn't ready for THIS yet seems to be my motto these days.
My son 'Jesse' turned 41 in June and a week later my daughter 'Dimice' turned 39.
I'm so proud of them, between the two they've given me 3 Grand-Ones. Brandon 9, his sister Katie 7, and my oldest Granddaugher Josslyn 8... I am 64 and the reality of it all is, I may not live to see Great Grand-Ones.... However, I am so blessed by these 3 like no one can imagine...
I think iyr Grand-Ones are what keeps us young ....
I do, someone please 'stop' or at least slow down this train.....
I had a harder time with my oldest child turning 40 than any age I have ever turned.
Even so, I'm pretty sure we can't stop the train so we might as well get on and ride it to all the great places it will take us.
I don't like this speeding train at all. Not at all. But happy Saturday anyway.
Thanks for posting.....I love that song and John Mayer!
Went school shopping with my 10, soon to be 11 yr old granddaughter today....stop the train!
My "baby" will be 30 next month, and my oldest will be 40 in June 2013. I honestly just don't know where the time went. Sheesh.
I hear you! It's hard when your kids age on you-but when the grand kids do it, yikes! My oldest is 13.
Middle son turns 29 today / i know :(
Oh my, I can so relate. Only in my case, it's the teen grandchild accompanied by the two grandkids turning into tweens in the next two months. And with me ONLY being 32... How can that be? :) :) :) Have a fun celebration!
Thank you for posting the lyrics to this song. Lord, I wish I could stop this train. Or at least slow it down. It seems to be out of control, going faster and faster every year. Does anyone in their 20s or 30s think "Gee, if I'm lucky I only have about 6 or 7 decades left to live." We don't even think about it normally. But now, watching our parents and elders die, our kids turn 40, our grandkids graduate... the thought that we might only have, if we're lucky, a couple decades left to live is something we just can't fathom. Where did the time go? It got on that train. Dang it. But, I count my blessings every day that I have been here to see my daughter grow up and have children of her own. And good Lord willin', I'll be here to see my grandkids grow up. My Mom used to say "Every day is a good day on this side of the dirt." True. I relish every day even more now that I know how fast it goes. And you know what? You can't explain that to young people. Thanks again for the lyrics and the thoughts.