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The Girls Who Went Back in Time

from Back in Time / Demi Moore Single by The Marble Tea

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Rachel and my sister were something of a dynamic duo back in high school. Drew and I were just a couple of stoners with guitars. One magic day - the day that Rachel made the birds stop singing - the four of us spent an afternoon hanging out on Hillwood Drive, immersed in our own little worlds: Drew and I jamming and playing the instrumental part to 'Sweet Melissa' over and over and trading leads, while Vic & Rachel were transported quite unexpectedly into the past. I've never been, so I can't tell you what it was like for them. I can only tell you what I saw....

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It started out like any Saturday
Our mother had some place to be
So she had gone away
Rachel came by for my sister
She's her friend
Bright blue eyes and dark hair
And a tan

My guy Drew was over
He's real cool
He's got an older brother
And a swimming pool
His parents caught us one night
Pulling on the pipe
Made us sit at home
On Friday night
(but I digress)

The four of us sat on the trampoline
Passed a smoke and changed our names
To Orson Welles and Bean
The birds were fluttering
And cluttering it up
It got so loud that Rachel
Told them to shut up
And they did
(and they did)

It's a fine day
A fine day for time travel
It's a fine day
A fine day for time travel

Drew and I went into my bedroom
Played guitars and tried our hands
At 'Do You Feel Like We Do'
He says I sing better than Peter Frampton
He may be tone deaf
But he's not too dumb

Meanwhile Rachel and my sister Vic
Had a drama going like
An H. G. Wellian flick
Drew and I heard screaming
Coming from the bath
The look we gave each other
Man, you would have laughed
(we dropped our guitars)

It's a fine day
A fine day for time travel
It's a fine day
A fine day for time travel

We found the girls upon the bathroom floor
Pointing at the mirror
And huddled by the shower door
So hysterical we couldn't comprehend
Until the words came out to tell us
Where they'd been, and what they'd seen
Because they were:

The girls who went back in time
back in time, back in time
The girls who went back in time
back in time, back in time
The girls who went back in time
back in time, back in time
The girls who went back in time
are back in time, just in time
Today

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from Back in Time / Demi Moore Single, released April 15, 2008

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The Marble Tea Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey

Drawing mandalas and watching Captain Kangaroo...that's pretty much what it's like in here. I enjoy writing songs about my cats and cartoon insects, but I'm also fond of feeling up the tentacles that lead to the oneness of existence. That's the Marble Tea experience.

Recommended for fans of Jonathan Richman, Robyn Hitchcock, Jazz Butcher, Magnetic Fields, etc.
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