From time to time the tables turn

You cross a line, get your fingers burned

Suddenly is a new situation

From day to day, dot to dot

To case to case 'til the cord is cut

Suddenly is a new situation



Everybody wants to believe

They hold the ticket to the train to the Promised Land

Everybody wants to believe it ain't no lie

One day I woke from a dream

On a rocket coming back from another planet

Don't think I'm ever gonna understand why



Nothing is what it used to be

These white walls are all new to me

Time is the doctor and I'm his patient

I don't know what he's done to me

A gentle push or brain surgery

It's gonna take some imagination

This new situation



From A to Z, through and through

The destiny I thought I knew

Suddenly is an open ending

I learnt the tricks, I did the time

My eyes a-fixed on the finishing line

All it is is a new beginning



Everybody dreams of a happy ever after

And gold at the rainbows end

Everybody wants to believe it ain't no lie

Everybody wants the machine

To run faster and faster, out of hand

I don't think I'm ever gonna understand why



Nothing is what it used to be

These white walls are all new to me

Time is the doctor and I'm his patient

I don't know what he's done to me

A gentle push or brain surgery

It's gonna take some imagination

This new situation

Oh yeah

Oh



Nothing is what it used to be

These four walls are all new to me

Time is the doctor and I'm his patient

I don't know what he's done to me

A gentle push or brain surgery

It's gonna take some imagination



Nothing is what it used to be

These white walls are all new to me

Time is the doctor and we're his patients

I don't know what he'll do to us

But things will change, yeah, I know that much

It's gonna take some imagination

This new situation