Time Machine
Ingrid Michaelson Lyrics

You lit the fire
You started something powerful between us.

Then drank the water
You put out that fire as quickly as you started it.

You slammed that door
You ended our relationship abruptly, without giving me a chance to say anything.

And left me standing all alone
You deserted me and walked away from our relationship, leaving me feeling isolated and alone.

We wrote the story
Together we created a beautiful story of our love and relationship.

We turned the pages
We made many beautiful memories together and moved forward in our relationship.

You changed the end
You ended our beautiful story in a bad and unexpected way.

Like everybody said you would
Others warned me that you might not be the right person for me and turn out to be the way you did.

I should've seen it coming
I should have been more careful and observant to realize that you were not the one for me.

It should've sent me running
If I had seen the warning signs, I would have walked away from our relationship immediately.

That's what I get for loving you
This is the result of all my love and affection for you.

If I had a time machine
If only I had the power to go back and change things.

And if life was a movie scene
If life would have been like a movie, I would have had the chance to change things.

I'd rewind and I'd tell me
I would go back to my past self and warn myself about you.

Run
I would tell myself to run away from this doomed relationship.

And we were never meant to be
You and I were never meant to be together.

So if I had a time machine
If I had the power to change things in the past.

I'd go back and I'd tell me
I would go back to my own past and give myself some advice.

Run
I would ask myself to run away from this relationship and not look back.

I got your letters
I received your letters, which amasses the feelings you had for me.

I got your words
I heard and understood all the things you said to me.

I stacked them high
I held onto your words and put them in a high place in my heart.

And lit them all and let 'em burn
But in the end, those words only hurt me more and I decided to get rid of them for good.

Your broken stories
I cannot believe any of the stories you have told me and they seem fake now.

Don't mean a thing
All of your stories, your reasons do not provide a solution or closure to me.

You made that bed
You have to live with the consequences of your impulsive decisions.

Good luck falling back asleep
You shall not overcome this situation with ease and you have to bear the consequences.

Oh, your love, it got me higher
Your love filled me up, it gave me the feeling of being lifted up and complete.

Then it drove me up the wall
After reaching the peak of the emotions, your love made me feel crazy and confused.

But the higher up you go
The more intense and high my feelings got for you,

The further you will fall
The more disappointed and hurt I ended up being.

Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh, run
The singer once again pleads with the listener to run away from such love that only leads to hurt in the end.