Prescient (alternate version)

Here, let me show you, even though
A mere three days have passed
This protein, it typically takes six years to amass
(Here I'm trying, I build the egg)
Now all the lab guys don't believe, they think that it's a joke
So I put my watch inside and counted back the stroke
(There's no such thing)
Yes I know, but take a look here at the notes!

Now I believe you, I really do, but let's not overreach
This thing is not just pure mechanics and ordeals
(Mechanics and order, it's not a leap)
Right, so we build a box that's big enough to fit into
Something private and secure, you know what we could use
(It's only in our heads)
Hey, who is that? What the who is this now to you?

Who cares if every moment isn't perfect, it hasn't disappeared, we
Can reverse engineer things, making every choice immaculate and ideal
So what if every perfect moment isn't, that moment reappears, and
The chance is infinite, we can just keep on going back
Relive the past until we time it tight, get it right
Who cares if every moment isn't perfect, it hasn't disappeared, we
(We should show you, friend, the broken tapestry)
(Can't be together everywhere)
Can reverse engineer things, making every choice immaculate and ideal
(We want you to stop, you are just a myth)
(You know who's always hurt)
So what if every perfect moment isn't, that moment reappears, and
(Pain won't relieve it, free the dumb and deaf in me)
(Tell me where it's been worth)
The chance is infinite, we can just keep on going back
(Leave your paranoia alone, you should leave)
Relive the past until we time it tight, get it right

Hero photon, hero gluon
Hero photon, hero gluon
(My only tattoo is the atom, never gone)
Hero photon, hero gluon
(My father comforts in my aggressions)
One journey after another, all over and under, here I was denied
(And just to think)
One falls back into the other, divided asunder, yet somehow alive
(Inside of me)
One journey after another, all over and under, here I was denied
(And just to think)
One falls back into the other, divided asunder, yet somehow alive
(Inside of me)
One journey after another, all over and under, here I was denied
(And just to think)
One falls back into the other, divided asunder, yet somehow alive
(Inside of me)

A and B and, and A and B, on we go again

I think I'm getting used to all these thirty-hour days
When I can't get my hands to work, I just scrawl across the page
(And how can you have no peace?)
And I can drag and hide my doubles as I reappear
If only I could somehow stop this bleeding from my ears
(I can't stop you from here)
I'll build a bridge, I'll walk a path, entire years

Who cares if every moment isn't perfect, it hasn't disappeared, we
Can reverse engineer things, making every choice immaculate and ideal
So what if every perfect moment isn't, that moment reappears, and
(Pain won't relieve it, free the dumb and deaf in me)
(Tell me where it's been worth)
The chance is infinite, we can just keep on going back
(Leave your paranoia alone, you should leave)
Relive the past until we time it tight, get it right

One journey after another, all over and under, here I was denied
One falls back into the other, divided asunder, yet somehow alive
One journey after another, all over and under, here I was denied
One falls back into the other, divided asunder, yet somehow alive
A and B and, and A to A and B and
We contend!