Trying to Stop Your Leaving (Josh Abbott song)

Trying to Stop Your Leaving is the 13th song played by Josh Abbott in the album "Welcome to the Fishbowl". The 21st song in the Top 30 Marathon album is inside Disc 2.

Lyrics
[Verse 1]

Got a guitar, got a guitar on my back

And I'm standin' on this lonesome railroad track

Train's a comin'

It'll be here 'fore too long but I don't think I can stop it with a song

Girl that's the kind of way I'm feelin'

Tryin' to stop your leavin'

[Verse 2]

Got a pebble, got a pebble in my hand and I toss it out into the middle of the Rio Grande but the river keeps runnin'

Don't even know that I'm around

I could throw a million more and not slow it down

Girl that's kind of what I'm feelin'

Tryin' to stop your leavin'

[Bridge]

There's nothin' that I wouldn't try

If I thought it would change your mind

But you don't love me

No you don't love me anymore

And I know as soon as you walk out that door

Train's a comin', river's runnin' (x2)

Pain's a comin', tears are runnin'

Yeah that's kind of the way I'm feelin'

Knowin' I couldn't stop your leavin'