Time Traveler

Lyrics for Time Traveler

This week's been good, your nurses say You wake up somewhere different every day Your hair is curled and your nails are done You always said a little lipstick never hurt no one Today, you're back in 1953 In a dress and heels on a football field, homecoming queen Grandpa throws the winning pass for Webster Groves And you tell me you're in love, your mother doesn't know The doctors call it cognitive decline Typical for eighty-nine But I think you've got a secret power So you don't have to go back and relivе your darkest hours You're a time travеler I think about how young you were at twenty-three When you had your first rupture with reality You rocked your baby daughter in a wooden chair You started hearing voices that were not there The doctors gave you pills that made you tired Shocked your brain right through with electric wires You came home smiling, if sedate After that, for fifty years, you barely ate There's a darkness in our DNA, some fraying strand So if you wanna fly away sometimes, I understand You're a time traveler You're a time traveler Mm-mm Now everyone you've ever loved is here with you Your mama and your sisters, and you papa, too Ancestors and angels all around the room And I see the thinning veil that you're passing through You held me on the day I came into this world Now I hold your hand, like you're the little girl From dust to dust, with all this good love in between Now all you want is to look out at the dogwood trees You're a time traveler A time traveler You're a time traveler