The World Ain't Slowing Down

Ellis Paul

Compositor: Ellis Paul

I found you sitting on a suitcase crying
Beneath my feet
I feel the rumble of a subway train
I laugh out loud
'Cause it's the one thing I hadn't been trying
The train came in breathless
The passanger's restless
You say: "baby, you'll never change"
You gotta get gone, you gotta get going
Hey, the world ain't slowing down for no one
It's a carnival callin out to you
It sounds like a song
Hits you like scripture
You paint the picture
With colors squeezed from your hand
Weren't you the kid
Who just climbed on the merry-go-round
Hey look, the world ain't slowing down
Hey, hey, the world ain't slowing down
Hey, hey

Out on the sidewalk
Pigeon's do the moonwalk
I'll be dancing like fred astaire
The lamppost's are rockin
The whole town's talkin
Like a fool in a barber's chair
And I get the sensation
The joy and fustration
Like being caught by a drop of cold rain
Freedom can numb you
When there's no place to run to
It feels just like novocane
You gotta get gone, you gotta get going
Hey the world ain't slowin down for no one
It's a carnival callin out to you (It's callin out to you)
It sounds like a song
Hits you like scripture
You paint the picture
With colors squeezed from your hand
Weren't you the kid
Who just climbed on the merry-go-round
Hey look, the world ain't slowin down
Hey, hey, the world ain't slowing down
Hey, hey

You packed up all your handbags
Throwing off the sandbags
I let go and you stepped free
I didn't want to loose you
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
You gotta get gone, you gotta get going
Hey the world ain't slowin down for no one
It's a carnival callin out to you (It's callin out to you)

It sounds like a song
Hits you like scripture
You paint the picture
With colors squeezed from your hand
Weren't you the kid
Who just climbed on the merry go
Weren't you the kid
Who just climbed on the merry go
Weren't you the kid
Who just climbed on the merry go round
Hey look, the world ain't slowin down
Hey, hey, the world ain't slowin down
Hey, hey, it's a big, blue world
It's a big, blue world
Ridin' on a big, blue world