Time Machine - Frank Turner

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

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

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