TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
No, I’m not (G)col or blind.
it.
I know the world is black and white.
Try to keep an o pen mind, a way but I just can’t sleep on this to night.
(Gm)Stop
this train.
I (Gm)want to get off and go (D)home
a gain.
I can’t take the speed it’s (E7)mov
ing in.
I know
I can’t,
but (A9sus4)hon
est ly,
won’t (C)some
one (G)stop this train?
Don’t know how (G)else to say it.
Don’t want to see my par ents go.
One to gen er a tion’s length a way but from fight ing life out on my own.
(Gm)Stop
this train.
I (Gm)want to get off and go (D)home
a gain.
I can’t take the speed it’s (E7)mov
ing in.
I know
I can’t,
but (A9sus4)hon
est ly,
won’t (C)some
one (G)stop this train?
So scared of get ting old er;
I’m on ly good at be ing young.
So I play the num bers game to (Gsus)find a way to say that life has (Dsus2)just be gun.
Had a talk with my old man.
Said, “Help me un der stand.”
He said, “Turn six ty eight,
you’ll re ne go ti ate.
Don’t stop this train.
(Gm)Don’t for a min ute change the place you’re in.
SONG INFO
- Level
- 5 of 5
- Key
- D
- Tempo
- 116 BPM
- Plays
- 7
- Chords
- A A9 Am C D Dmaj7 Dsus2 E7
- Category
- Pop
- Artist
- John Mayer