How to Build a Time Machine chords by Darren Hayes

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Verse 1
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If I have
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understood correctly
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Velocity equals the distance traveled
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Divided by time
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I've read every word ever printed
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On quantum physics
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And now it is time to try
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I read your book, I found your notes
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I dusted this thing off and turned on
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The key
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The rumbling motors
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The buzzing incredible gadgets
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The hissing electricity
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And now the moment has come
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I'm traveling back in time
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Verse 2
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They're run ning down the hall
I've started the countdown
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They want me to stop
But I don't think so
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I'm ready to go
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Let's get the job done

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Verse 3
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Beyond the paradoxical
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All the lights are dazzling
Pass the planes, and trains,
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and satellite navigation
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Pass the time I spent today
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Through the nearest wormhole
In a stunning ball
Of white
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The light explodes and lands on you

Verse 4
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And you're five
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Always running away
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And I was dying to kiss you
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And I
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I don't want to cry
I don't want to see
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Where the moving van takes you
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So I travel on
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Beyond the stars
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At one hundred and   eighty-six
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thousand thousand miles per second
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I can fly
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Forward a few years
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To nineteen hundred  and seventy nine
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I  caught a glimpse of the sky
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Verse 5
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They're com ing down
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the road
They're coming to get me
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I never  should have come
I hide the time machine
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I'm run ning down the hall
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I think I'm in my old house

Verse 6
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Pass the place where I grew up
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Number nine Lake Road
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Pass the swimming pool
And Mable park
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And past Troy Clifford's house
To the Argonaut ?
To the fish and chip shop
Out the back and down the road
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To the place I got beat up
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Verse 7
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Hey, put that rock down
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Can't you see he's half
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your size?
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Hey, he looks familiar
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Oh my god, he's me, age nine

Verse 8
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Put your shoes on
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And run away from here
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I can't get involved
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This is all so weird
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I'm meeting myself
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This is all so clear

Interlude 1

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Verse 9
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All the things I've lost
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All the people I've hurt
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All the times I lied
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All the moments wasted
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All I never did
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All the dreams I had
All the things I would change
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D 
I can change them

Verse 10
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All the things I've lost
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All the people I've hurt
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All the times I lied
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All the moments wasted
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F#m 

Verse 11
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I'm gonna make right
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What I did wrong
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And change how the fu
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ture  has come
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Through appliance of science
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I'll take a hold of my enemies
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Take their obscenities
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Kiss them, and leave them like
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lovers who've gone
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I'll call my dad
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I'll tell him I miss him
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And tell my reflection: 'it's
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not your fault'
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And now the moment has come
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I'm traveling back in time
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Verse 12
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They're running down the hall
I've started the countdown
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They want me to stop
But I don't think so
Bm 
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A 
I'm ready to go
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Let's get the job done

Verse 13
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Put your shoes on and
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G 
Run away from here
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I can't get involved
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This is all so weird
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(It's me aged nine)
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Let's get the job done

Verse 14
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All the things I've lost
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All the people I've hurt
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All the times I lied
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Em 
All the moments wasted
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All I never did
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All the dreams I had
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All the things I would change
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Em 
I can change them

Verse 15
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Beyond the paradoxical
Bm 
A 
All the lights   are dazzling
Pass the planes, and trains,
Bm 
and satellite navigation
A 
Pass the time I spent today
Bm 
G 
A 
Through the nearest wormhole
In a stunning ball
Of white
Bm 
The light explodes into another moment