(inspiration: The 2^nd to last episode of the original Star Trek series – Mr. Atoz and the Atavachron)

TEMPORAL PUNISHMENT

Opening the gate to the past and future

Shackled and bound you sit

Banished to another time

For a crime you didn’t commit

The gate’s one way so there’s no going back

Time to escape’s running out

They inject you with dilation buffers

Tag you to track you like a rainbow trout

CHORUS

Cataloged like library books

The era to fit the crime

Temporal Punishment

Brings new meaning to doing time

As the gate spools up, starts the rift

It waxes into your veins

Suddenly the power flickers and dies

And the distortion’s effect wanes

Slipping off the shackles

You escape on borrowed time

The GPS you’ve stolen

Has suddenly gone offline

LEAD

The city streets seem unfamiliar

Where have all the people gone

You realize the portal did its job

You’ve been displaced after all

As you grasp your irreversible fate

You wonder where in time you dropped

With nothing, no one, isolated

You’d rather be in hell and rot

CHORUS

LEAD