Time Machine - very important meaning

[really long nick name]

It's about someone who is living in a type of dream world. The "time machine" is a rambling consciousness. Someone, who refuses to live in the present and constantly spends his time reliving the past and imagining the future, an extreme example is the character named Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Willy Loman can't fix how bad his life has become because he's too busy thinking about an idealistic past. He does this because his life has become so bad; it's a vicious cycle. We can all become stuck living in false realities because they don't think they can handle the real reality and we'll see later that the real problem may only appear overwhelming, and it's solution easily obtainable.


Oh what are you gonna do
When there's a part of you
That needs to run with the wind
"Running with the wind" is living in the present. However, the present is becoming more messed and a cycle is created by living in past & future.


And the fire of burning yesterdays
Can only light the way
To lead you from
The garden of the dark
Fire of burning yesterday means somehow, the persom believes by reliving, thinking/imagining the past, that it will create a solution to lead you out of your problems.


Now looks like the change is on
Tomorrow's never gone
Today just never comes
Is about the time machine shifting from the past to the future. The future is now imaged.


Go on and jump,yeah
Into the hurricane
You will forget the pain
It's only there
To exorcise your mind
"jumping into the hurricane" the author (RJD) is saying to face life's problems and that the pain makes us who we are. In other words, we develop & learn from the pain. Or the "hurricane" could mean the turmoil of what the person here is creating by being absent from the present.

ooking at the world
When you've open up your eyes
You've got to see the promises they've made
They're bloody lies and broken dreams
Your silence screams
When the person comes into the present, the author (RJD) wishes the person will hopefully see & understand the impact this has on their life and that any thing pleasant the person experiences by living in the past, is all an illusion and lies. It offers nothing to change the present and is actually causing harm not immediatly seen. Further more, in a similar repeated verse, where it says;


Looking at the world when you've opened your eyes You'll see you've got invisible chains
They're only lies Not what it seems
Whats being said here is that the problems that are in the present, may actually not be as overwhelming as they seem. "Invisible chains" is that the problem may actually not have the power that you think it does.


TIME MACHINE

Oh what are you gonna do
When there's a part of you
That needs to run with the wind

And the fire of burning yesterdays
Can only light the way
To lead you from
The garden of the dark
Stay out of shadows

Now, looks like the change is on
Tomorrow's never gone
Today just never comes

Go on and jump, yeah
Into the hurricane
You will forget the pain
It's only there
To exorcise your mind

Looking at the world
When you've open up your eyes
You've got to see the promises they've made
They're bloody lies and broken dreams
Your silence screams

[Chorus:]
You're living in a time machine
And you can choose just who you are
Someone that you've never seen
Somewhere you've never been
You're living in a time machine

Oh what are you gonna do
When every part of you
Just needs to catch the wind

And the fire of burning yesterdays
Can only light the way
To lead you from
The garden of the dark

Looking for the world
When you've opened up your eyes
You'll see you've got invisible chains
They're only lies
Not what it seems
I hear your silent screams

[Chorus:]
You're living in a time machine
Nobody cares just where you go
Taken where you've never been
Taken to somewhere you don't know

You're living in a time machine
Why do you stay who you are
Be what you've never been
Someone you've never seen
You're living in a time machine
Yeah