Time Warp
O'Brien Lyrics

It's astounding
The situation being described is so incredible as to be almost unbelievable

Time is fleeting
Time passes quickly, seemingly without warning

Madness takes it's toll
This situation has driven some to the brink of insanity

But listen closely
Pay attention, as important information is about to be given

Not for very much longer
The current situation will not last much longer

I've got to keep control
The singer is compelled to maintain control of the situation

I remember doing the time-warp
The singer recalls a previous experience of performing the time-warp

Drinking those moments when
The artist intensely experienced and savored those moments in the past

The blackness would hit me
The experience was overwhelming in nature, possibly hallucinatory

And the void would be calling
The artist felt a pull towards an empty, perhaps nihilistic existence

Let's do the time-warp again
The singer suggests repeating the experience once more

It's just a jump to the left
Performing the time-warp involves a simple physical movement

And then a step to the right
Another simple physical movement required to perform the time-warp

With your hands on your hips
A specific posture is required when performing the time-warp

You bring your knees in tight
Another physical movement needed for the time-warp

But it's the pelvic thrust
The climax of the time-warp's physical movements involves a sexually suggestive gesture

That really drives you insane
This movement is extremely pleasing or exciting

It's so dreamy, oh fantasy free me
The experience of performing the time-warp is immersive and transports the performer to another place

So you can't see me, no, not at all
The experience is so immersive as to make the performer feel invisible

In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention
The performer feels as though they are in a separate reality and are observing it from a removed vantage point

Well-secluded, I see all
Despite feeling removed from the experience, the performer is able to observe and appreciate it in its entirety

With a bit of a mind flip
The experience causes the performer's perception of reality to shift

You're into the time slip
The performer has become lost in the experience of the time-warp

And nothing can ever be the same
The experience has permanently changed the performer in some way

You're spaced out of sensation
The experience has left the performer feeling disassociated from their senses or surroundings

Like you're under sedation
The performer feels as though they are in some kind of dreamlike or drugged state

Well I was walking down the street just a-having a think
The singer is describing a mundane activity that triggered the memory of the time-warp experience

When a snake of a guy give me an evil wink
The artist was somehow thrown off balance by an unknown person's gesture

He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise
The artist was disoriented and shocked by this person's actions

He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes
The man had a vehicle and a look that made him seem dangerous or intimidating

He starred at me and I felt a change
The man's gaze was powerful enough to provoke a shift in the singer's mind or emotions

Time meant nothing, never would again
The experience of the time-warp was so profound that it rendered the concept of time irrelevant to the artist's existence