Time Traveler

Flirting with disaster, your face is wet with tears
Happy ever after has all but disappeared
It’s everything you wanted, but how could you ignore
This place is haunted like ya been here once before  

I’m the time traveler, and would I were to flip the hourglass
Watch promise of the future turn to phantoms of the past    
I wasted all my moments, dear, traversing centuries
‘cause it’s not time, but distance that’s dividing you and me

Dinosaur to fossil, skeleton to dust
Do what you want to, if you can’t do what you must
Hey, where ya going? And can I come along?
If I could start over, I’d probably still do it wrong 

The movie always ends too early, the credits roll just like a gurney
Technicolor fades to black and white
Tripping through the brick and mortar, all the scenes are out of order
The story’s full of holes in the half light