Songtext von Bennett Built a Time Machine

Bennett Lamb’s been holed up in his shack Working ever patiently Clocks are ticking Bennett’s headed back to New York, 1983 To meet himself as a younger man Show the teenage him a perfect plan The stocks to buy girls not to date He knows the way to reinvent his future Un-make mistakes, un-seal his fate He’s going back to change his choices Guided by his inner voices And visions that he’d seen Bennett built a time machine Bennett Lamb’s been five days wide awake He scrawled out every thought he had Complex calculations he did make All single-spaced on legal pads He won’t return to watch Babe Ruth To head off Mao or John Wilkes Booth To warn good people in the past Of earthquakes, locust plagues or insurrection There’s just one die he wants recast