"Again and Again" Lyrics Written By: Al Schnier Lyrics Transcribed By:  Alex Rosenfeld Debut: April 16, 1998 * Al solo debut before moe. debut. Official recording(s) (if any): Tin Cans and Car Tires

I don't want to know
I don't want to find out
I've begun to hold
And I'm gonna find out
How I'm gonna feel
When I look behind me
Shadows on a field
Suddenly reminds me

Chorus:
    Time gets around my head
    I don't want to feel ???
    Time gets around my head
    I don't want to feel it

(? - Silver - ?) time has come
Twenty was a memory
Thirty's on a run
Forty will be friendly
Time and time again*
When I look behind me
And I find the end
Standing right beside me

(Chorus)

I don't mind
I don't know
I'm gonna find out when I go
I don't mind
I don't know
I'm gonna find out when I go-oh home

I don't really mind
Doesn't really matter
Chasing down the time
Doesn't really matter
If I had the time
And the motivation
Maybe I would find
Some big revelation

(Chorus)

If I had a brain
If I was a scarecrow
If I was a train
If I could make my hair grow**
Every now and then
When I think about it
??? again
Livin' it without it

(Chorus)

I don't mind
I don't know
I'm gonna find out when I go
I don't mind
I don't know
I'm gonna find out when I go-oh home...go-oh home...go-oh home...go-oh home...

Time and time again
Time and time again

I don't mind
I don't know
I'm gonna find out when I go-oh
I don't mind
I don't know
I'm gonna find out when I go-oh
I don't mind
I don't know
I'm gonna find out when I go-oh
I don't mind
I don't know
I'm gonna find out when I go-oh home

*Al wrote "Again and Again" at the age of thirty as a response to "Time Again," which he had written at the age of twenty-five.

**Few people remember when Al went bald.  Some, in fact, deny that he ever had hair.

Al:

This song was a tune that I'd been playing over and over again at home.  Invariably, every time I picked up the guitar, I'd end up playing this song.  The lyrics came much later, after the band had worked up the song and tried it on, so to speak.  The one line, 'time gets around in my head - I don't want to feel it' was the only thing I had to work with for quite a while.  In fact, this was one of those songs where the lyrics were completed just minutes before the recording.  Since I recently turned the corner at 30, I decided to make this an updated version of "Time Again," a song I had written about growing old at the age of 25.  It's not an obsession with age, but more of a fascination with time and perspective - and getting bald and fatter.