[The Circuit of Time] [ Verse 1: Male Vocals ] Young Marty meets the Doc beside the mall's cold midnight air, Who shows the steel DeLorean with madness in his hair. He wears a red down puffer vest beneath the parking lamp, While Doc adjusts the hazmat suit within the winter damp. [ Pre-Chorus 1: Male and Female Duet ] The seconds tick away upon the courthouse tower wall, The shadow of the past begins its heavy, ancient fall. A single spark can shift the gears of ticking, frozen time, Until the mountain peak is finally yours to climb. [ Chorus 1: Male and Female Duet ] We are the masters of the path we choose to take, Within the choices and the promises we make. Your future isn't written yet, it's in your steady hand, So make it such a good one like the way that you have planned. [ Verse 2: Female Vocals ] The Libyans arrive in vans with weapons in their grip, Doc falls upon the pavement as the desert moments slip. The boy jumps in the driver's seat to flee the smoking gun, At eighty-eight the fire trails prove the race has just begun. [ Pre-Chorus 2: Male and Female Duet ] The seconds tick away upon the courthouse tower wall, The shadow of the past begins its heavy, ancient fall. A single spark can shift the gears of ticking, frozen time, Until the mountain peak is finally yours to climb. [ Chorus 2: Male and Female Duet ] We are the masters of the path we choose to take, Within the choices and the promises we make. Your future isn't written yet, it's in your steady hand, So make it such a good one like the way that you have planned. [Instrumental Break - Melodic Piano Interlude] [ Bridge 1: Male and Female Duet ] The DMC-12 with doors that open like a wing, Flux Capacitor hums just like a living thing. Huge gigawatts of power humming deep inside the wire, To send the traveler across a bridge of liquid fire. [ Verse 3: Male Vocals ] He finds the man in fifty-five to show the clock-tower page, They plot to harness lightning on a high-wire, metal stage. Lorraine begins to pine for him instead of George the shy, The photograph is fading fast beneath a vintage sky. [ Pre-Chorus 3: Male and Female Duet ] The seconds tick away upon the courthouse tower wall, The shadow of the past begins its heavy, ancient fall. A single spark can shift the gears of ticking, frozen time, Until the mountain peak is finally yours to climb. [ Chorus 3: Male and Female Duet ] We are the masters of the path we choose to take, Within the choices and the promises we make. Your future isn't written yet, it's in your steady hand, So make it such a good one like the way that you have planned. [ Bridge 2: Male and Female Duet ] The Gibson guitar rings as Marty feels his fingers fade, He watches as his parents dance within the evening shade. If George can find the courage just to steal a single kiss, The boy will stay alive within a world of newfound bliss. [ Verse 4: Female Vocals ] George stands up to Biff and throws a punch to save the girl, The timeline starts to settle in a dizzy, spinning swirl. The lightning hits the tower top at ten-oh-four tonight, The circuit closes tight within a flash of blinding light. [ Pre-Chorus 4: Male and Female Duet ] The seconds tick away upon the courthouse tower wall, The shadow of the past begins its heavy, ancient fall. A single spark can shift the gears of ticking, frozen time, Until the mountain peak is finally yours to climb. [ Final Chorus: Male and Female Duet ] We are the masters of the path we choose to take, Within the choices and the promises we make. Your future isn't written yet, it's in your steady hand, So make it such a good one like the way that you have planned. [ Outro: Male and Female Duet ] He wakes up in the morning to a world he hardly knows, Doc is wearing Kevlar where the desert water flows. The history is written and the slate is finally clean, The future is a story on a screen of living green.
