The World Ain't Slowin' Down

I found you sitting on a suitcase crying

Beneath my feet, I feel the rumble of a subway train, yeah

And I laugh out loud

'Cause it's the one thing I hadn't been trying

The train came in breathless

The passenger's restless

You said, "Baby, you'll never change"

Ya gotta get gone, you gotta get going

Hey, the world ain't slowin' down for no one

It's a carnival calling out to you

It sounds like a song, it hits you like scripture

You paint the picture with colors squeezed from your hand

Weren't you the kid who just climbed on a merry-go-round?

Hey, look, the world ain't slowin' down

A-hey, hey

The world ain't slowin' down

A-hey, hey

Now out on the sidewalk, pigeons do the moonwalk

I'll be dancing like Fred Astaire

The lampposts are rockin'

The whole town's talking like a fool in a barber's chair

And I get the sensation, joy and frustration

Like getting caught by a drop of cold rain

A-freedom can numb ya when there's no place to run to

It feels just like Novocain

Ya gotta get gone, you gotta get going

Hey, the world ain't slowin' down for no one

It's a carnival calling out to you

It's calling out to you

It sounds like a song, it hits you like scripture

You paint the picture with colors squeezed from your hand

Weren't you the kid who just climbed on a merry-go-round?

Hey, look, the world ain't slowin' down

A-hey, hey

The world ain't slowin' down

A-hey, hey

You packed up all your handbags

Throwing off the sandbag

I let go when you stepped free

I didn't want to lose ya

You said, "You didn't choose to

It's just how your karma came"

But thanks for the vision

And the twenty-twenty wisdom

It hit me like a south-bound train

Ya gotta get gone, you gotta get going

Hey, the world ain't slowin' down for no one

It's a carnival calling out to you

It's calling out to you

It sounds like a song, it hits you like scripture

You paint the picture with colors squeezed from your hand

Weren't you the kid who just climbed on a merry-go–

Weren't you the kid who just climbed on a merry-go–

Weren't you the kid who just climbed on a merry-go-round?

Hey, look, the world ain't slowin' down

A-hey, hey

The world ain't slowin' down

A-hey, hey

It's a big, blue world

It's a big, blue world

We're riding on a big, blue world