I’ma gonna build myself
a time machine
On particle physics
and the power steam
It runs on diesel oil
and Donnie Darko daydreams
Packed a pair of socks
and a hunting riffle
Change of underwear
and some snacks to trifle
Scared of going back
you know how I’m forgetful
To go back and to see the way
things really used to be
Not the way
we remember them at all
Packed up sat in my DeLorean
Like some kind
of amateur historian
I’ll visit the Renaissance
and the Romans the Victorians
Drinking in Deadwood
in the 1880s
Rock and roll and drive
thrus in the 1950s
Trying not to change things
so the plot lines
don’t get shitty
To go back and to see the way
things really used to be
Not the way
we remember them
To go back and to see
the way things really used to be
Not the way
we remember them at all
Cause I can’t recall
you tell it to me false
What if everything were
to change completely
If you just saw a replay
of the crucial scenes
From the passenger window
of a time machine
In truth the real reason
that I built this here machine
Was just to travel back
a couple of years
To when we first met before
the fights and tears
To a time when you and
I first got together
Simple days and simple words
like forever
Dripped off our tongues
come on you must remember
To go back and to see the way
things really used to be
Before life quietly dismembers
All the best things about you
and I before the doubts
Drowned out all of the
mirth and mercy
Come on baby please
you must remember
Please remember