When i can travel through time I won't bother going backwards to when things were better I'll just fast forward to the end of the world So that i can be sure i'm the only one you've got left Or i suppose i could go to ancient rome And say the right things to get fed to the lions Or kill some important emperor So you'd read about me at cornell or whatever Maybe i'd go to the stone age Where i'd be too hungry to worry and wonder where you are Or what yr thinkin I'd just hunt and i'd gather and i'd know no different But i know one thing for sure I will avoid the future like the plague But that's nothing new -- i want nothing new What bothers me the most is Before i thought to stop a plane crash or cure some disease I thought of you -- and what i could do Really i'd go to any time, not just to find some clever way to die But to know that i wasn't right here and right now So the odds would increase that maybe you'd be there too