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 [bad word] 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
gentle push or brain surgery
It's gonna take some imagination
This new situation

From 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 [bad word] 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
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
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