As the opening track on this concept album, it sets the stage for the rest of the songs by letting the listener know they will be going back in time, visiting his family’s past.
If everything went back to sea
Back to the start of things
I would wish the future well
And I wouldn't change a thing
All the things I fear the most
They'll be bound to set me back
Any wrong I ever do
Will always come back to me
Time was a film run backward through my hands
I could feel the pyramids move in the sand
I was up and I was high
When I hit the air-pocket
And I thought it was the end
Till you became a butterfly
You'd been closing in on me
Day after day
Mirrored in your eye
I was a castaway
Turn the clocks back
We're running out of time
Turn back the tide
And the river changes your mind
I'm going back to the start
If everything went back to sea
Back to the start of things
All the things we never said
Never hold them back again
Time was a film run backward through my hands
I could feel the pyramids move in the sand
Turn the clocks back
We're running out of time
Turn back the tide
And the river changes your mind
We're going back to the start
Turn the clocks back
We're running out of time
We're going back to the start, to the start
We're going back to the start, to the start
To the start
To the start
If everything went back to sea
Back to the start of things
Back to the start of things
Back to the start of things