Stop This Train
transcribed by Elliot Kleinfelder
and Catherine Gagné

Standard tuning!


Intro

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Verse / Interlude

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Chorus

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I usually don't transcribe rhythms but in this case, it's a "picked" one, 
and the bass notes are important. For each diagonal chord, make a slow down stroke
and quick up stroke (you repeat the high notes). 


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"Had a talk with my old man"

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"Once in a while.."

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No, I'm not colorblind 
I know the world is black and white 
Try to keep an open mind
But 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 movin in 
I know i cant 
But honestly, won't someone stop this train 

Don't know how else to say it 
Don't wanna see my parents go 
One generation's length away 
From finding life out on my own 

Stop this train 
I wanna get off and go 
home again 
I can't take the speed 
it's movin in 
I know i cant 
But honestly, won't someone stop this train 

So green at 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 68 
you'll renegotiate 

Don't stop this train 
Don't fall in bed and lose 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 

Once in awhile 
when it's good 
it will 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 wanna get off and go 
home again 
I can't take the speed 
it's movin in 
I know i cant 
Cause now I see, 
I'll never stop this train
Never stop this train