The Time Machine (Alan Parsons Album) - Lyrics

Lyrics

The lyrics in this album, like many other albums of Alan Parsons and Alan Parsons Project, are around a central theme, in this case H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine, but touches other themes related to relativity and time traveling:

• The Time Machine: Instrumental intro about the time machine.

• Temporalia: Instrumental track, it has professor Frank Close's explanation about time and space relativity, this is an extract of "Equinox – The rubber Universe".

• Out Of The Blue: Lyrics related to a time traveler from our earth's future.

• Call Up: About traveling to the past and bringing back all the great people in history, to help change the world.

• Ignorance Is Bliss: talks about our time, and how sad people are in comparison to ancient and simpler times, and the possibility of change for good to a simple way of life.

• Rubber Universe: Instrumental related to the expansion of the universe.

• The Call Of The Wild: Talks about a future when mankind will be one without any separation (ethnicities, faith, nations, etc.). The melody of this song is a variation of a traditional Irish folk song "She Moves Through the Fair".

• No Future In The Past: Talks about avoiding repeating past mistakes.

• Press Rewind: About the possibility of going back in time and starting all over again, doing the same again or changing something for better.

• The Very Last Time: A song about people that have gone and never been seen again (alive or not). The song was actually written about the author's dead dog.

• Far Ago And Long Away: Instrumental using a play on words, as in relativity "space" = "time" so "far away" = "far ago" and "long ago" = "long away".

• The Time Machine (Part 2): Instrumental outro about the time machine.