Story Behind Stop This Train Song

I want to tell you a story about stop this train well about the recording of stop this train

my father has been old for a while and

My father was old by my estimation when I was working on continuum

And I was writing stop this train, and I remember I had this moment. I had come back from La

I was working on continuum, and I was going to go to a Mets game with my dad, and I had already been

prepared

To go to this Mets game with my dad and have it be this Pixar moment in my brain

I was so ready

I'm gonna sit next to my dad and I'm gonna have this memory and we're gonna take pictures and that's gonna be

the lasting memory of

This period of my life with my dad. That's how the moment's gonna go

Right before I was ready to leave my house in Connecticut at the time my parents house to go to New York to see the

Mets play I got a massive headache why because the barometric pressure had just dipped like crazy

Which meant the sky just broke open in a torrent of rain that canceled the Mets game

There was no Mets game. My father is still here as of the time of recording this he's 98 years old

I couldn't be happier or feel more blessed and what that lesson taught me is

You don't get to write the moments the moments are things you look back on you can't script them

You can't prepare them

We've all had a party that was no good because we tried to shoot for the same thing that just happened

Automatically while a bunch of people just sidled up in porch chairs, and that's when I learned we don't control these moments

We only appreciate the ones that have happened. Thank you for letting me share the story about stop this train

Here's that song on life with John Mayer

Change the place you're in don't think I couldn't

Understand I tried my hand

Honestly, we'll never stop this train