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Time Machine Lyrics by Frank Turner

Tape Deck Heart

2013

[Produced By Rich Costey]

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 rifle
Change of underwear and some snacks, a trifle
Scared of going back you know how I’m forgetful

[Hook]
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 shifty

[Hook (x2)]

Cause all you can recall, could turn out to be false
And 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”
Tripped off our tongues, come on, you must remember

Let's go back and to see the way things really used to be
Before life quietly dismembered
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
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Frank Turner

Frank Turner

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"Time Machine" is credited to Frank Turner. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Time Machine" appears on "Tape Deck Heart" in 2013.

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