[Verse 1]
Woke up with a clock in my palm
Red hands, ticking in my veins, felt wrong
Dialed back, 10 years, one breath
Found my past self hiding from the test
Pulled the F out his trembling fist
Signed his name right, fixed that risk
Watched his eyes light up in the dark
Thought, yeah, I just gave him a spark (ha)
Jump cut, blink, new street, new slang
My old school’s glass, chrome, gang tags
Best friend’s face on a cop car ad
Guess he never failed, never met my ass
[Chorus]
I keep turning back the time, but the future’s getting stranger
Every little fix I make just mutates into danger
Thought I’d clean my mess, change my fate, make it better
But I broke the line, now I’m stuck with timeline terror
Timeline terror, glitching every era
Step to the past, and the path gets narrower
Tried to make it right, now I’m running from my errors
I broke the line, now I’m stuck with timeline terror (hey!)
[Verse 2]
Jump again, basement, dust, old screen
Typed “don’t call her,” hit delete on a dream
Stopped that text that wrecked her night
Saved her heart, kept my pride in sight
Bounce forward, city feels off-key
Her face on a billboard, she’s a queen on TV
But her smile’s too sharp, eyes like stone
Guess a softer heartbreak made a harder throne
Every change like a stone in glass
Shards in the floor of my future path
Fam don’t know me, key don’t fit
My home’s a condo, my room don’t exist
[Chorus]
I keep turning back the time, but the future’s getting stranger
Every little fix I make just mutates into danger
Thought I’d clean my mess, change my fate, make it better
But I broke the line, now I’m stuck with timeline terror
Timeline terror, glitching every era
Step to the past, and the path gets narrower
Tried to make it right, now I’m running from my errors
I broke the line, now I’m stuck with timeline terror
[Bridge]
[Beat drops to half-time, distorted vocal chop echoes “rewind”]
Hit rewind, it hits back harder
See my shadow at the start of the starter
Every version of me in a circle of smoke
Pointing fingers like, “You’re the joke”
Can’t go forward, can’t go back
Every door I open folds into black
Guess the worst mistake I ever designed
Was thinking I could babysit time (time, time)
[Chorus]
I keep turning back the time, but the future’s getting stranger
Every little fix I make just mutates into danger
Thought I’d clean my mess, change my fate, make it better
But I broke the line, now I’m stuck with timeline terror
Timeline terror, glitching every era
Step to the past, and the path gets narrower
Tried to make it right, now I’m running from my errors
I broke the line, now I’m locked in timeline terror (woah)