Aeroplanes and time machines
The race for quicker ways and newer things
Twenty-four hours against the earth's rotation
The roar of these engines is empty
Automobiles and sound machines
The strange allure of steel bodies
Both traveling faster than our own bodies do
This engine is larger than the one room in which I lived
The subway and the brain machine
Tunneling deeper into the past
No one owns the ideas they have
And I'm going to stake my claim
Twenty-four hours against the earth's rotation
Chasing some yesterday