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Willow

Time Machine

Release date: 1st March 2007

From Willow
Track 3
2:24
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About This Track

Willow imagines herself travelling backwards through decades on 'Time Machine', a slow R&B and synth-pop track that finds her conjuring encounters with cultural figures from different eras. She'd return to 1983 to spend time with Basquiat, or to 1993 to meet Kurt Cobain, trading the present for a kind of nostalgic make-believe where life felt less mediated and more immediate. The song's real concern, though, is contemporary disconnection. Willow observes how everyone is tethered to their phones, seeking connection through screens and finding only isolation. Against this backdrop, her time-travel fantasy reads less as escapism and more as a rebuke: a refusal to wait around for meaning in an age of perpetual distraction. The repeated plea "please don't wait on me" becomes an assertion of autonomy, a choice to move forward on her own terms rather than surrender to the inertia of the present moment.

"Time Machine" is a track by Willow, from the album Willow, released 1st March 2007. The track is 2:24 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Willow.

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Willow

Willow

Lyrics

Time Machine

Yeah

Baby, if I had a time machine
I'd go back to 1983
Maybe I would chill with Basquiat
I'd be out there playing make-believe
I'd be in the streets of NYC
Sippin' lemonade likely
21st Century me, 20th Century dreams

And tell me does it feel like that?
Does it really feel like that?
'Cause baby, if it's real like that...

Then please don't wait on me, on me
Please don't wait on me, on me
Please don't wait on me, on me (Take 'em back to 1983)
(Shining down, look like a Christmas tree)
(I don't give a fuck, I'm doing me)
(Time machine, time machine)
Please don't wait on me, on me (Take 'em back to 1983)
(Shining down, look like a Christmas tree)
(I don't give a fuck, I'm doing me)
(Time machine, time machine)

Baby if I had a time machine
I'd go back to 1993
Maybe I would play with Kurt Cobain
Maybe I would get on MTV
Maybe I would cruise all day
Ride a longboard, foosball fates
I don't care what anyone says
Everyone is disconnected these days
'Cause everyone is looking at their phone
Tryna feel like they are less alone (So wrong)
And I'm here to tell them that they're wrong (So wrong)

'Cause baby, if it feels like that
Tell me if it feels like that
Tell me if it's real like that

Then please don't wait on me, on me
Please don't wait on me, on me
Please don't wait on me, on me (Take 'em back to 1983)
(Shining down, look like a Christmas tree)
(I don't give a fuck, I'm doing me)
(Time machine, time machine)
Please don't wait on me, on me (Take 'em back to 1983)
(Shining down, look like a Christmas tree)
(I don't give a fuck, I'm doing me)
(Time machine, time machine)

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From Willow

2:242007
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Willow
Willow
Willow
1st March 2007
Track number
3
Release year
2007
  1. 1Like a Bird
    2:49
  2. 2Female Energy, Pt. 2
    2:54
  3. 3Time Machine
    2:24
  4. 4PrettyGirlz
    2:49

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