Hey Judas

John Archibald Wheeler once said
That time is just nature's way
Of stopping everything from happening at once
As if the universe has a limited amount of bandwidth, or low RAM
Like an early 80s games console
Certainly without time things would make less sense than they already do
And there's a whole host of reasons why time travel wouldn't work
If butterflies flap their wings to make hurricanes
Then crash-landing a Delorian in the cretaceous
Is going to derail every little step of the pathway
From the garage where you built the thing in the first place
Back around to your parents fucking before an open fire on their second date

But we're scientists, right?
Open like new flowers to enquiry, the universe, new ideas, new paradigms
And it might just be that our under-evolved ape brains
Can't yet conceive the permutations and contortions of logic
That could lead from how we understand the world now to how it could be
To the wormholes and shortcuts that might throw Einstein for a loop
And make the whole thing somehow, impossibly, inconceivably possible

So here's the deal. You have a time machine
The question is... What are you going to do with it?

I'd say it's obvious, you have to make plans
Arm yourself with a paper and pen
Hum your way through every top 40 hit
Since the hit parade started and make a list
Learn all the words, remember the tunes
Make sure you have it all written down
Set the dial to where you're heading to
The year before Elvis, 1952
Now welcome to your alternative life
You are the king of rock'n'roll, insurmountably high
You have the songs, you are the king of radio
You preempt every fashion like you knew exactly which way to go
It just seems to be effortless
The way you write them in ten minutes or less
And bitter nobodies can't explain how
You took their inner secrets and spewed them out your mouth
Before they could write them down

But wait a minute, seriously, wait a minute
This has happened before, I swear this has happened before
Those two weird kids from Liverpool, they kind of came out of nowhere
Wait a minute, John and Paul something

Paul Mac
Cartney and John Lennon
Came back from a different future
Armed with notebooks filled up with songs
Stolen from kids who now stay home

Mark Chapman was sent back in time
To assassinate John Lennon
Paul is left but the question is
Who will be the T1000?

Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Think about it
Can't be killed
Refuses to die
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is the T1000

Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Think about it
Can't be killed
Refuses to die
Keith Richards is the T1000
Keith Richards is the T1000

Watch your back, Paul
Seriously, man
Watch your back