Time Machine Songs

You know when you didn't like a pop song 14 years ago, but now you start to listen to it to bring you back 14 years?

And you smile a sneaky smile, as the song plays over and over again. And you look for different versions of the song, which take you back in time in slower motions, rapid motions, distant, close.

And you use words from that time and remember beaches from that time. And you make a collection of songs from that time.

And you think you're free sometime later, but it all catches up with you - your cup of coffee, balloons in the air, loud claps...

The audience stands up - even those who did not understand the ending. And you realise it's been a 14 year play - with one too many plane journeys.

And you know when you make up the lyrics of your favourite song - and think the band totally gets you!

He also lost someone too soon, before life was finished. And wonders how he is going to spend all the days of his life without his love.

But all along he was singing he never needed his love, and it was all a waste of time. Why sing about it then? Don't sing about insignificant lovers and time... I don't.

I only know that there is more to it, or my sanity is long gone by plane. I did what I said I would do. And I'm here now, hiding from the rain - lonely as predicted. I did it twice.

I'm here now, and I don't understand a thing. People come and go as I watch, as I dream, as I wonder, as I drag on, as I have my wine, as time machine songs play.