Guided by Voices - Time Machines lyrics

Time machines escape the fall

But cannot climb the prison wall

Nowhere to go they stumble headlong

Stumbling back to where they belong

Are you looking at my signs?

Have you noticed they're no timelines?

Can you examine them sometimes?

Can you?

Time machines colliding

Back and forth reuniting

No real chance to run away

No noble voices beckon them

Have you looked at what I've found?

In the ocean where my thoughts drown

Can you walk on it sometimes?

Can you?

Time machines, we'll buy them

I'll ride them with you

In the dreams of every page

And phases we go through

Are you coming to meet with us?

Will you be taking a seat with us

at any time in the future or the past?

Is there no one to care for you?

With any crosses to bear for you?

Or is the light always there for you fading fast

(Another Version)

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Looked around and saw things moving fast

I became the product of my past

Couldn't break the mirror

Was not strange (?)

The image getting clearer

???

I reached out blindly for you

Like night and day

I was hopeless

'Til I came in touch with you

You're only baby, a child

But I love the way that you're wild

Time machine, let's try it

I'll ride it with you

Jump inside, we'll fly it

Let's go someplace new

Couldn't even think my world was ???

Smothered my emotions in energy and wit

Tried to find the answers

Needed somebody's eyes

Couldn't break the forcefield

??? down by lies

I know it's hard just to leave it

But really we shouldn't move slow

I happen to think that

It's all gonna work out

Let's go