This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
[INTRO]
I' m lost in a sphere
what am I doing here
the time machine
my ultimate dream
back in time
the gateway now is mine
should I stop at last
and never see the past
tonight it will be done
and I will be the one
to discover to the core
like no other did before
[VERS 1]
I just stepped into a time
when man fought to be alive
the only thing they wanted
the right to choose for their life
to leave as free men their own style
but the time moves on and we're here
just for a while
then we die
[VERS 2]
I'm going even beyond
the ancient traces of man
a paradise so divine
will never come back again
we'll destroy it in the end
but time moves on and we're here
just for a while
then we die
[BRIDGE]
WHOOHH
what is next to see
whatever happens to me
I have no fear, ready for more
on my mission to seek and explore
but I am lost and all alone
but some day I will get home
[CHORUS]
but now I need to go
cause I need to know
what the future will be like
I want to see a new horizon
that's why I must go on
cause I need to know
about the future of mankind
I need to go
that's why I am here
that's my destiny
there will be a time
peaceful and divine
and I do believe in tomorrow
tomorrow will be so sweet
and the time moves on
but we can change our fate
it's not too late!
[SOLO]
[BREAK]
I 've been traveling the vast
of time to see at last
a gateway to a land
to be free in the end
but I'm lost and all alone
but some day I will be home
[CHORUS]
but now I need to go
I' m lost in a sphere
what am I doing here
the time machine
my ultimate dream
back in time
the gateway now is mine
should I stop at last
and never see the past
tonight it will be done
and I will be the one
to discover to the core
like no other did before
[VERS 1]
I just stepped into a time
when man fought to be alive
the only thing they wanted
the right to choose for their life
to leave as free men their own style
but the time moves on and we're here
just for a while
then we die
[VERS 2]
I'm going even beyond
the ancient traces of man
a paradise so divine
will never come back again
we'll destroy it in the end
but time moves on and we're here
just for a while
then we die
[BRIDGE]
WHOOHH
what is next to see
whatever happens to me
I have no fear, ready for more
on my mission to seek and explore
but I am lost and all alone
but some day I will get home
[CHORUS]
but now I need to go
cause I need to know
what the future will be like
I want to see a new horizon
that's why I must go on
cause I need to know
about the future of mankind
I need to go
that's why I am here
that's my destiny
there will be a time
peaceful and divine
and I do believe in tomorrow
tomorrow will be so sweet
and the time moves on
but we can change our fate
it's not too late!
[SOLO]
[BREAK]
I 've been traveling the vast
of time to see at last
a gateway to a land
to be free in the end
but I'm lost and all alone
but some day I will be home
[CHORUS]
but now I need to go
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Time Machine Lyrics as written by Benjamin Sotto
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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