“Stop This Train” is the 7th track on 2006’s Continuum and is about coming to terms with the unstoppable march of time, as well as mortality.[Verse 1]

No, I'm not color blind

I know the world is black and white

I try to keep an open mind

But, I just can't sleep on this tonight

[Chorus]

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?

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

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?

[Piano Interlude]

[Verse 3]

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

[Bridge 1]

Had a talk with my old man

Said, "Help me understand"

He said, "Turn 68, you'll renegotiate"

[Chorus]

"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

John, honestly, we'll never stop this train"

[Bridge 2]

Once in a while, when it's good

It'll feel like it should

And they're all still around

And they're still safe and sound

And you don't miss a thing

'Til you cry when you're driving away in the dark

[Chorus]

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'll never stop this train"