Time and Time Again

"A weird song, a wasteland song. It's about the spaciousness of loneliness, equating solitariness with the hugeness of the country. It's about large geographic locations and the protagonist's wish to be displaced in them." - Adam Duritz

I wanted so badly
Somebody other than me
Staring back at me
But you were gone

I wanted to see you walking backwards
And get the sensation of you coming home
I wanted to see you walking away from me
Without the sensation of you leaving me alone

Time and time again
Time and time again
Time and time again
I can’t please myself

I wanted the ocean to cover over me
I wanna sink slowly without getting wet
Maybe someday, I won’t be so lonely
And I’ll walk on water every chance I get

Time and time again
Time and time again
Time and time again
I can’t please myself

So when are you coming home,
Sweet angel?
You leaving me alone?
All alone?
Well, if I’m drowning darling,
you’ll come down this way on your own

I wish I was traveling on a freeway
Beneath this graveyard western sky
I’m gonna set fire to this city
And out into the desert we’re gonna ride

Time and time again
Time and time again
Time and time again
I can’t please myself

I can’t please myself And I can’t please nobody else and

Time and time again
Time and time again
Time and time again
I can’t please myself

(words by Adam Duritz)
(music by David Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, Steve Bowman, Don Dixon & Adam Duritz)
(c) 1993 EMI Blackwood Music Inc./Jones Falls Music/ Lava Head Music BMI Administered by Bug Music