Rotate your point of view

Concrete surrounds you

It used to be a field

With a tree where we all played

Suspend your disbelief

This world became of age

To the beautiful things

That flourished in your day

That's why I say...

[chorus]

Stop, stop the world I said

Stop stop, stop the world

Because I wanna get off, wanna get off, wanna get off

It's making me earthsick

Substitute what is now

For what had used to be

Old or new, everybody's got to pick

It's making me insane

My head keeps spinning

Progress is winning

I don't recognize the place

Where I grew up

This is no fantasy

The ground beneath your feet

Will soon be a store

With things that you don't need

That's why I plead...

[chorus]

Stop, stop the world I said

Stop stop, stop the world

Because I wanna get off, wanna get off, wanna get off

It's making me earthsick

Rotate your point of view

Concrete surrounds you

It used to be a field

With a tree where we all played

That's why I say...

Substitute what is now

For what had used to be

Old or new, everybody's got to pick

It's making me insane

[2x]