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
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