How do you stop? (Joni Mitchell)

Hard bodies
Soft emotions
So fast
So smart
The world is at your feet,
But what about your heart?
Fame and fortune can't hold you tight
In the late hours of the night.

How do you stop?
Before it's too late?
You choose and you lose
If you hesitate.
How do you stop?
Before it's too late?
You think love will wait
So you don't hold on
And then it's gone.

You've had success -
Lots of fancy friends.
You've tasted the good life;
You thought it would never end.
One day you're too young,
Then you're in your prime,
Then you're looking back
At the hands of time.

How do you stop?
Before it's too late?
You choose and you lose
If you hesitate.
How do you stop?
Before it's too late?
You think love will wait
So you don't hold on
And then it's gone.

How do you stop a runaway train?
How do you stop the driving rain?
How do you stop the ripening corn?
How do you stop a baby being born?

How do you stop?
Before it's too late?
You choose and you lose
If you hesitate.
How do you stop?
You're lost if you hesitate...
How do you stop
Love from slipping away?
How do you stop
Before it's too late?