Modern Wonder - Oppenheimer Analysis

I remember when we met

Out times had just been set

You were standing in the future

And you let me be your teacher

Then I got our future planned

And I took your past in hand

Then we went our separate ways

Travelled through each phase

And here we lie in disarray

Surrounded by the present day

All this Modern Wonder

Ripped our lives asunder

The greatest crime is to be out of time

Gotta keep from going under

In all this Modern Wonder

Then our journeying was spent

In the place where we were sent

To the late Atomic Age

Turning into chronic rage

And here we lie in disarray

Surrounded by the present day

Call it Modern Wonder

Time-Life crashing thunder

We’re going too fast for our lives to last

Gotta keep from going under

In all this Modern Wonder

Do we stay or do we go

Should we tell them what we know

Cos they’re going too fast

For their time to last

Should we stay and watch the show

And here they lie in disarray

Surrounded by the present day

All this Modern Wonder

Ripped their lives asunder

All this Modern Wonder

Ripped their lives asunder

All this Modern Wonder

Ripped their lives asunder

I remember when we met

Out times had just been set

You were standing in the future

And you let me be your teacher

Then I got our future planned

And I took your past in hand

Then we went our separate ways

Travelled through each phase

And here we lie in disarray

Surrounded by the present day

All this Modern Wonder

Ripped our lives asunder

The greatest crime is to be out of time

Gotta keep from going under

In all this Modern Wonder