Song Description

Time personified in a girl who just keeps driving around the same block over and over again. The speaker wants to move SOMEwhere, but time is trying to teach her to be patient. Kind of a road trip with Mother Time.

Lyrics

Hitched a ride in a pretty girl's car
She said she's Mother Time
Wasn't there a father with a long white beard?
She says 'no, dear, but you'll be just fine'
Oh, alright

I want to get the now washed
Want to bring the past along
Want to leave this heartache behind
But she drives around the block once
Drives around the block twice
Drives around the block three times

Maybe I'm being taken for a ride
Or this is just how time bides
When synchronicity is all we want and she's hiding

Caught a glimpse in the sideview mirror
Green eyes glancing back at all my yesterdays in hot pursuit of what today still lacks
Mama Time says 'where you wanna go, girl?'
I want to go more wide than far
Well, she throws it into park
Rolls all the windows down
Looks up through the moon roof ajar

Maybe I'm being taken for a ride
Or this is just how time bides
When synchronicity is all we want and she's hiding

I'm waiting to kiss all this waiting goodbye
I'm waiting to kiss all this waiting goodbye
I'm waiting to kiss all this waiting goodbye
I'm waiting to kiss all this waiting goodbye

Closed my eyes on that aging monster
Took a hint and a breath
But wasn't there a reason I was so wide-eyed and huffing 'til there was nothing left?
Oh, wide eyes
A flux capacitor or some good advice
Either one would be fine
But she drives around the block once
Drives around the block twice
Drives around the block three times

Maybe I'm being taken for a ride
Or this is just how time bides
When synchronicity is all we want and she's hiding