Temporalia Lyrics - The Time Machine - Alan Parsons

When you look into a night sky 

You see the stars far away 

You're seeing them because of the light 

Which travels from them to you 

Now it takes time for light to travel here 

So what you're doing is seeing the stars as they were in the past 

The amount of time it has taken for the light to reach us 

And the further and further away those stars are 

The further back in time you are looking 

Now you are seeing a star that is say six thousand years ago 

Imagine somebody on that star looking at us 

They would be seeing us as we were six thousand years ago 

Which of those two is now? 

So space and time are linked together 

As we are looking across space, we are looking back in time