Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I'm hitting fast forward
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Seems like we'd gotten kind of stuck
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Time to get out of town and try to
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Set the controls for some
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time off in the future
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Where people will be happy
Verse 2
scareder all the time
Scared of their own shadows
and scared to take a fall
or dying for a dime
Desperate to live forever or
lucky to live at all
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Verse 3
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And if I could see my self
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from some other planet
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Would I be shaking my head sadly or
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Would I be laughing
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Saying it's always been the same
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But anyway
Verse 4
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Not going back to the Age of
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Gold or the Age of Sin
Fast forward till I understand
the age I'm in
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Verse 5
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And it's always the old guys bitching
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About the young guys
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Or turning into sissies or something
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While they're trying to hold back time
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As if that isn't weird
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Meanwhile the young guys are
Verse 6
they wanna be is cool
Cool calm and collected just as
if that isn't strange
ring the bell and change the rules
When the game goes on forever
It's just the uniforms that change
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Verse 7
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If this is the best of times or
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if it's the worst
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of opinion out there
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Everyone is a genius
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But no one has any friends
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Or is it the other way around
Verse 8
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Not going back to the Age of
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Gold or the Age of Sin
Fast forward till I understand the
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age I'm in
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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As we go round the Sun
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Watching us as fools
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And have way too much fun
Interlude 2
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Verse 10
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And everyone knows about
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what's over and done
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And tied up with pretty ribbons on it
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One king after an other
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With a mad one and a
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Thrown in for good measure
Verse 11
and meanwhile
make it every bit as clear
Make a friendly Star Trek universe,
'cause everything's allowed
strange to be is here
And the only time that's
Verse 12
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So I'm hitting fast forward
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Verse 13
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Come on get
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on board!
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You don't wanna be late now...
Verse 14
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Not going back to the Age of Gold
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or the Age of Sin
Outro 1
Fast forward till I understand the age I'm in
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