Time Machine

My time machine's got that brilliant AI
Say what I want and then I watch it go by
Most of the time we go assassinate fascists
Don't read the files if the database matches
No I don't read the files if the database matches

My time machine gets bored of the death
Asked if I partied passed me a spliff
When so inclined indeed party adieu
And so we hit Cordoba in 772

My time machine's all like wait til you meet him
Abu I-Hasan Ali Ibn Nafi
Ziryab the blackbird of Andalusia
My time machine smokes a good sinsemilla

My time machine drops us in on a concert
Packed palace lawn they're drawn under a sunset
Dude on the oud is like Hendrix and Mozart
Lofty and lewd and in control where the notes are

My time machine's got them all-access passes
Back in the green room sippin' vino from glasses
Crystal and salads at the dawn of refinement
Ziryab's table sets to elevate dining

My time machine is a master at chess
In old Cordoba they say that Ziryab's best
I know the moves but I don't got the passion
I watch Ziryab lose in an elegant fashion

My time machine is great at translation
Me and my host shared a deep conversation
Generous humorous and incredibly smart
He was a polymath scholar of science and art

My time machine wants to call it a night
Abu I-Hasan says it's probably right
Star and a crescent on the petals of dawn
Let's go kill Isabella fourteen ninety and one
Let's go

My time machine got brilliant AI
I say what I want and then watch it go by
Most of the time we go assassinate fascists
Don't read the files if the database matches
I don't read the files



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Writer(s): William Randall Stafford
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