Time Changes Everything

Such a low down dirty trick you played me
You work your witchcraft so well
Straight through my bleeding heart
Another martyr to your hypodermic kiss
Your needle don’t ever seem to miss

Time changes everything
Why did we have to say goodbye ?
And I know why the caged bird sings
Time changes everything

Was that a face I saw'r at the window ?
Did I hear footsteps out in the hall ?
All the people that we used to know
Faces stranded in my mind
Faces drawn without lines

Time changes everything
Why did we have to say goodbye ?
I know why the caged bird sings
Time changes everything

How can the world ?
Keep on turning ?
What else is it gonna do ?
I’m still growing, I’m still growing
I am now, I'm not the only child
Hanging in the frame with you

Time changes everything
Why did we have to say goodbye ?
I know why the caged bird sings
Time changes everything

Lyrics by:
Squire

Format:
Released: February 2003
Time Changes Everything (5 Force PR, 1 Track Promo CD)
Time Changes Everything (Red Alert PR, 1 Track Promo CD)

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Time Changes Everything (4.45)

Details:
The album Time Changes Everything is made up of various Roses references (e.g. "wound on through the hills for 15 Days" a Fool’s Gold reference from 15 Days, etc). Lines 3 - 5 in the opening verse allude to Ten Storey Love Song. The Ten Storey Love Song video was based around one Francis Bacon painting, 'Version Two of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe'. "Hanging in the frame with you" confirms, for me, that he is referring to that painting. John singing that he is "not the only child hanging in the frame with you" alludes to the ‘child-like’ experiences of Ian in the video (see the essay linked to, above). He and Mani (see the scene where he takes a football to Ian during the video) are adopting the role of children in order to accompany the ‘child-like’ Ian (in the video) going through cold turkey. “Faces drawn without lines" may relate to the way in which the faces of some figures in Bacon's paintings (such as Head VI) are drawn "without lines". Many of Bacon's figures, such as the one in 'Version Two of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe' (1953), appear to be trapped in cages, just like the bird in Maya Angelou's 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings'. And musically, Time Changes Everything has the same choral melody as Ten Storey Love Song.

The interaction between the piano and other instruments at the end of the song is close to David Bowie's 'Time' (from 'Aladdin Sane').

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