I found you sitting on a suitcase crying
Beneath my feet
I feel the rumble of a subway train, yeah
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"
You gotta get gone
You gotta keep 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 slowing down
A, hey, hey
Now out on the sidewalk
Pigeons do the moonwalk
I'll be dancing like Fred Astaire
The lamp posts are rockin'
The whole town's talking
Like a fool in a barber's chair
And I get the sensation
It's joy and frustration
Like being caught by a drop of cold rain
And freedom can numb you
When there's no place to run to
It feels just like novocaine
You 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
(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 slowing down
A, hey, hey
You packed up all your handbags
Throwing off the sandbags
I let go when you stepped free
I didn't want to lose 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 calling out to you
(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 slowing down
A, hey, hey
It's a big blue world
It's a big blue world
Riding on a big blue world