Time Travel as a Metaphor for Suicide

from The Bedroom Demos by Johnny Dissent

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This bed makes a pitiful excuse for a time machine.
Its doing its best but a few more hours just wont help me
I was hoping for twenty or thirty years all my problems could disappear
Except for a lengthy string of voice mails
I could laugh as I delete them and id run as far as I could.
I could rule the drooling locals who crouch in the ruins of our world
Well instead i wake up late no time to bathe
i just check my dozen voicemails as I Head out to the car

I could go to the stars, or I could go, down the block.
or I could go to ruined future, if it meant someone listening to me talk.
Cause that’s what I need right now. Someone to just hear me out.
I swear it won't take long. No its ok, I guess lets hear about
Your fight with your girlfriend no I'll be fine
Another time, yeah sure, we can talk another time.

This car makes a pitiful excuse for a time machine
Its doing it's best but 88 miles per hour is just barely out of reach
God damn these stoplights costing me precious seconds that I'll never get back
How can I be so hypocritical suddenly worried about being late.
Well tomorrow work won't matter, once I hit 88 miles per hour
I'm never coming back.

I could go to the stars, or I could go, down the block.
or I could go to ruined future, if it meant someone listening to me talk.
Cause that’s what I need right now. Someone to just hear me out.
I swear it won't take long. No its ok, I guess lets hear about
Your fight with your roommates now no I'll be fine
Another time, yeah sure, we can talk another time.

This gun makes a pitiful excuse for a time machine
Its doing its best, but a one way trip is a daunting limitation
Fuck it, Fortune favors the bold, so here we go to a new world
To the future, filled with people who'll hold my hand.
and listen to me, and tell me everything's ok.

Here we go, see you in about 10 thousand years.
Alright, I'm signing off.

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from The Bedroom Demos, released April 17, 2014

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Johnny Dissent wrote one good song six years ago and hasn't shut up about it since.

Dissent [Dih-sent] - to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree.

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