Opening the gate to the past and future
Shackled and bound you sit
Banished to another time
For a crime you didn’t commit
The gate’s one way so there’s no going back
Time to escape’s running out
They inject you with dilation buffers
Tag you to track you like a rainbow trout
CHORUS x2:
Temporal
The era to fit the crime
Punishment
Brings new meaning to doing time
As the gate spools up, starts the rift
It waxes into your veins
Suddenly the power flickers and dies
And the distortion’s effect wanes
Slipping off the shackles
You escape on borrowed time
The GPS you’ve stolen
Has suddenly gone offline
CHORUS x2:
Temporal
The era to fit the crime
Punishment
Brings new meaning to doing time
LEAD
The city streets seem unfamiliar
Where have all the people gone
You realize the portal did its job
You’ve been displaced after all
As you grasp your irreversible fate
You wonder where in time you dropped
With nothing, no one, isolated
You’d rather be in hell and rot
CHORUS x2:
Temporal
The era to fit the crime
Punishment
Brings new meaning to doing time
LEAD