How to Build a Time Machine

If I have understood correctly

Velocity equals the distance travelled

Divided by time

I've read every word ever printed

On quantum physics

And now it is time to try

I read your book I found your notes

I dusted this thing off and turned on the key

The rumbling motors the buzzing- Incredible gadgets

the hissing electricity

And now the moment has come

I'm travelling back in time

They're running down the hall-

(I've started the countdown)

They want me to stop-

(But I don't think so)

I'm ready to go-

(Let's get the job done)

Beyond the paradoxical

All the lights are dazzling

Past the planes and trains and satellite navigation

Past the time I spent today

Through the nearest wormhole

In a stunning ball of white

The light explodes and lands on you

And you're five-

Always running away

When I was dying to kiss you

And I-

I don't want to cry

I don't want to see

Where the moving takes you

So I travel on

Beyond the stars-

At one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second

I can fly-

Forward a few years

To nineteen hundred and seventy-nine-

I caught a glimpse of the sky

And they're coming down the road-

(They're coming to get me)

I never should have come-

(I hide the time machine)

I'm running down the hall-

(I think I'm in my old house)

Past the place where I grew up-

Number nine Lake Road

Past the swimming pool

And Mable park

And past Troy Clifford's house

To the Argonaut-

To the fish and chip shop

Out the back and down the road-

And to the place I got beat up

Hey put that rock down!

Can't you see he's half your size?

Hey he looks familiar-

Oh my God it's me aged nine

Put your shoes on

And run away from here

I can't get involved-

This is all so weird

I'm meeting myself-

This is all so clear

All the things I lost

All the people I hurt

All the times I lied

All the moments wasted

All I never did

All the dreams I had

All the things I would change-

I can change them

All the things I lost

All the people I hurt

All the times I lied

All the moments wasted

I'm gonna make right what I did wrong

And change how the future has gone-

Through appliance of science

I'll take a hold of my enemies

Take their obscenities-

Kiss them and leave them like lovers who've gone

I'll call my dad-

I'll tell him I miss him

And tell my reflection "It's not your fault"

And now the moment has come-

I'm traveling back in time

They're running down the hall-

(I've started the countdown)

They want me to stop-

(But I don't think so)

I'm ready to go-

(Let's get the job done)

Put your shoes on and

Run away from here-

I can't get involved

This is all so weird

Let's get the job done

All the things I lost

All the people I hurt

All the times I lied

All the moments wasted

All I never did

All the dreams I had

All the things I would change-

I can change them

Beyond the paradoxical

All the lights are dazzling

Past the planes and trains and satellite navigation

Past the time I spent today

Through the nearest wormhole

In a stunning ball of white

The light explodes into another moment

END