Time Passing

Written by Anakin McFly

1985

Teenager kicks off from the road, skimming down
On his skateboard towards school late
As usual, but he doesn't care much for it
Brown hair, blue eyes, short build
Name's McFly, Marty McFly
Born and bred in Hill Valley, California

Dance auditions, band plays too loud
Kicked off the stage
Shattered dreams, broken hearts, dashed ambitions

Night fallen, car wrecked
Father being picked on by supervisor
As usual, same old, same old
Nothing's changed much in thirty years.

Uncle didn't make parole.
Sitting at the table, eating dinner
Mother recounts days passed
No one's really listening

Past midnight, Marty sleeps
Music playing on the radio
Phone rings.

Back on the road, back on the skateboard
Time machine, 1982 DeLorean DMC sports car
Greatest scientific achievement ever, but then
The terrorists arrive after their stolen plutonium, skidding
Towards them in a van, bullets
Raking through the air through Doc's chest and
Marty knows it's over, knows there's no chance

Gun jams, he sprints
Into the car, time circuits knocked on
(An accident)
Speeding down the road, 60 70 80
88 miles per hour and he's gone.

1955

Remember a time when this was all farmland
DeLorean ripping through the field, through the
Barn of Peabody's farm. Shot at as he escapes,
Barely. Pine knocked down.

Back on the road again, back on the road.
Plutonium chamber empty, no way home.
Two miles to Hill Valley. He walks on.

Couples strolling by the pond, kids playing
Bright storefronts with their displays
Movies showing. Newspaper, dropped into the trash
November 5, 1955.

Lou's Cafe, coffee cheap. Phone at the back
Doc listed in the directory, Riverside Drive. He sees
His father there, aged 17, picked on by Biff
As usual, same old, same new
Nothing's changed much in thirty years

Bicycle bell ringing, clear in the air
Trees swaying, breeze blowing, George climbing
George falling, car comes, car hits
And it's Marty this time.

Waking. Headache. Light comes on
Safe and sound in good ol' 1955
Lorraine, 17, gazing at future son

(She likes him)

Running, feet pounding
Down the street to Riverside Drive

Can you read my mind

Time traveller, Future Boy, lost in history
Erased from the plane of existence
No more

Get them back together, fix history
Satuurday's dance, Enchantment Under the Sea
Science Fiction Theatre showing
George won't go
Darth Vader from Vulcan stops by on Earth

You are my density.

Chased. Dead end. U-turn, then leap jump
Car head head car board down away
Crash. Manure.

Teenager kicks off from the road, skimming down
On a skateboard, away, away.

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