The Ticket

We came from the future
By way of the past
Time was an ice-covered river
Until the ice cracked
And now we're free from the flow
In which we were trapped
So we can come from the future
And go by the past

I bought my ticket
For the fifteenth century
We started moving
Through a hole in history
Across the desert
Across Euripides
Tossed in a tangle of time like an old vagabond
I bought my ticket
For the fifteenth century
A broken circuit
Made a whole new history
Across the desert
Across Euripides
Tossed in a tangle of time like an old vagabond
Tossed like an old vagabond

He's got a bone through his nose
And a drum 'neath his hands
A future Yanomamo
Or maybe last year's new burning man
Does everything sort of repeat
Does the old sort of get new?
And it's time like a river
Whose coils confound and confuse

I bought my ticket
For the fifteenth century
We started moving
Through a hole in history
Across the desert
Across Euripides
Tossed in a tangle of time like an old vagabond
I bought my ticket
For the fifteenth century
A broken circuit
Made a whole new history
Across the desert
Across Euripides
Tossed in a tangle of time like an old vagabond
Tossed in a tangle of time like an old vagabond
Lost in a tangle of time like an old vagabond
Tossed in a tangle of time like an old vagabond
Lost in a tangle of time like an old vagabond