Fates Warning’s Traveller In Time
Iron Maiden’s Caught Somewhere In Time, and a couple of others (presumably)
The Gathering’s Strange Machines
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Some more:
John Denver’s Take Me To Tomorrow
Whitney Houston’s One Moment in Time
The West Side Story’s Somewhere
Green Day’s Time of Your Life
Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time
Enya’s I Want Tomorrow, and Ebudæ sort of fits.
Jane Siberry’s It Can’t Rain All the Time also sort of fits.
The Cure’s To Wish Impossible Things sort of fits.
"Innocent Child" by **Big Audio Dynamite ** (B.A.D.):
*I know a way
Of sipping the truth
Go back to the days
Before your youth
I wish I could’ve seen you
When you could run wild
I would’ve liked to know you
As an innocent child
Innocent child*
"Sad to Belong" by England Dan and John Ford Coley:
Wish I had a time machine, I could
make myself come back until the day
I was born
and I will live my life again
and rearrange it so that I’ll be yours from now on
Also **“Dream Weaver” ** by Gary Wright (sort of) (time travel through better chemistry, if you will):
I’ve just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the dream weaver train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind
You’re probably thinking of Time for the Stars, but Heinlein mangled the physics to the point where I couldn’t really suspend my disbelief any further.
I can’t believe I’d never heard of that song, though… Queen singing about time dilation, what’s not to love? I’m going to have to get myself a copy, now.
mr_jp., I imagine that there’s a big difference between knowing intellectually about time dilation, and seeing it in action returning to a land your grandchildren knew. Even if you’re prepared for it, that has to be an emotional shock.
There was Me & Bobby & Bobby’s Brother
Please take me back to those days
Where I got all my memories, those were the happiest days"
Very early ABBA
It’s one thing to understand intellectually, but another to feel it emotionally. The song gets you in the heart.
The entire album, “Time,” by ELO. It’s a concept album about a man from 1981 being accidentally transported through time by some idiot scientists from 2095, who then don’t know how to send him back. The whole thing is brilliant.
I’m surprised that so many people know this song - I thought I’d pop into the thread to mention it but oh boy, was I beaten to it. Guess that’s coz it’s on A Night at the Opera.
I think RealityChuck’s right - although it’s not clear in the lyrics, I always felt that the “volunteers” knew what was going to happen, but didn’t appreciate it fully till their return.
Even just reading the lyrics is making me all tingly - listening to it really blows you away.
This is a common theme of Ayreon’s; the entire albums Universal Migrator and The Dream Sequencer have time travel as a part of the concept. Its also mentioned in Into the Electric Castle.
You should be. Croce was a 70’s singer/songwriter who was killed in a plane crash, while Chapin was a 70’s singer/songwriter who was killed in a car crash. I don’t see how you could confuse the two. 
“She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)”
*You have always heard her speaking,
she’s always been in your ear.
Her voice sounds a tone within you,
listen to the words you hear.
Her time has no past or future,
she lives everything she sees.
Her time doesn’t spin outside her,
it’s in every breath she breathes.
She lives in a time of her own…*
–13th Floor Elevators (on “Easter Everywhere”)
There;s also more famous “Me & Bobby” song:
But I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Holding Bobby’s body next to mine.