In the time of the Edison girls I was listening to every word There was something happening Dressed in clothes that my family wore Left the world by which they all swore But stop before you say you will Cause we know that you never will It's just a lie And there's a tightrope running through the living room And there's a sidewalk made of gas And there's a light bulb broken at the bottom of the swimming pool And there's a reason why I'm gone You can leave my name out of your book With the doctors, forefathers and crooks who invented history Who'll invent the time machine? But for now I'm just hanging around Dream my dreams in cylindrical sound But stop before you say you will Cause we know that you never will It's just a line And there's a tightrope running through the living room And there's a restaurant on fire You're like a cyclone blowing through everyone you knew And there's a reason for it now.