Key: C
Introduction: C
C
Draw the curtain, look, you're only sleeping
C
Or is this only what the other you is dreaming?
F
Either way
C
Hard to take
F#º7 Fm
Ashen features unmistakably your own
C D7
Familiar posture, recast in skin and bone
Dm7 Fm C
Person from today, here is you in 2082
C
Remove your helmet, first equalize the pressure
C
No, but first, take readings to be sure
F
The atmosphere is safe
C
Yes, it's safe
F#º7 Fm
As the ancient one cranes his neck to look
C D7
You see his hand's been replaced with a hook
Dm7 Fm C
But it's clear you're very much alive. It's 2105.
D#
No, it's 2240
G#
No, it's 3415
D7
How can you still be living?
D7 G7
What does this mean?
C
You must honor and respect the older fellow
C
Even as you suffocate him with his pillow
F
Though you're strong
C
He was wise
F#º7 Fm
There is much you can learn from the sage
C D7
And though you'll leave and travel back to your own age
Dm7 Fm C D7
You will meet again, you two in 2082
F#º7 Fm
What was the look he gave intended to convey?
C D7
Was there something else he was trying to say?
Dm7 Fm C
It will all be revealed to you in 2082