Stop this Train

As with my personal blog, I suppose I figured I'd ended up posting a lyric post. When my words can't match the mood. I'm trying hard to get used to things here in Macon, but aside from the people at my job I'm always feeling like I'm being attacked just for being who I am. For being different, for rising above the stereotype, for just being me. The ghetto people give me looks and talk junk at me b/c I don't like rap, play golf, and refuse to put up with their foolishness. And some (more than I'm used to though) of the white people keep treating me like I'm going to still something. Seriously? is it 1968? not 2008 did I miss the "whites only" sign when I came in the door? Believe you me, I hate the thugs, wannabes, no goods not working and getting my tax money via food stamps and welfare, the rap music, the foul mouths, etc just as much as you do. For the first time in long time I'm really homesick.


Stop this train by John Mayer
From the Continuum LP

O, I'm not colorblind
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 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 Jazz, 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 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 will never stop this train