i was only seventeen, my whole life in front of me with my head down and just like all those movie screens, i thought that i could live my dreams but i'm not now this time, is something that you can't get back and suddenly i'm twenty-two my whole world is in my view, i can see it and just like my mother told me to, i can do anything i wanna do if i believe it, and i believe it this time, it's something that you can't get back slow down everybody's moving far too fast to see where they're going and if we're feeling hopeless its cause we never notice what we have (what we have) on and on the story goes, where it stops no one knows but me on and on the story goes, where it stops no one knows but me slow down everybody's moving far too fast to see where they're going and if we're feeling hopeless it's cause we never notice what we have (what we have) slow down, slow down slow down, slow down (on and on the story goes, where it stops no one knows but me) slow down, slow down