Frank Turner - Time Machine lyrics

I’ma gonna build myself a time machine
On particle physics and the power steam
It runs on diesel oil
And Donnie Darko daydreams
Packed a pair of socks and a hunting rifle
Change of underwear and some snacks, a trifle
Scared of going back you
Know how I’m forgetful

To go back and to see the
Way things really used to be
Not the way we remember them at all
Packed up, sat in my DeLorean
Like some kind of amateur historian
I’ll visit the Renaissance and the Romans
The Victorians
Drinking in Deadwood in the 1880s
Rock and roll and drive-thrus in the 1950s
Trying not to change things so the
Plot lines don’t get shifty

Cause all you can recall
Could turn out to be false
And what if everything were
To change completely
If you just saw a replay
Of the crucial scenes
From the passenger window of a time machine?

In truth the real reason that
I built this here machine
Was just to travel back a couple of years
To when we first met before
The fights and tears
To a time when you and I first got together
Simple days and simple words like "forever"
Tripped off our tongues, come on
You must remember

Let's go back and to see the
Way things really used to be
Before life quietly dismembered
All the best things about you
And I before the doubts
Drowned out all of the mirth and mercy
Come on, baby, please, you must remember