Time Traveler

Imagine if you could travel through time
Choosing any era to explore
What time in history would interest you?
Mine would be nineteen thirty-four

Why, you ask, would I choose that year
From all the great epochs in time
Just wondering how my parents survived
The crash of nineteen twenty-nine

Another era that's really interested me
The late fifties when I was wed
I remember it was quite scary back then
Nuclear war was hanging over our heads

But here we are in the twenty-first century
With these gadgets and amazing inventions
The world hasn't become any friendlier now
We still have the same old tensions

Perhaps if I live a hundred more years
Nations will have stopped waging war
I know, I know, you can call me a dreamer
Can't be any worse than before

Do you know my answer to all of this
Keep on giggling the whole way through
Sing happy tunes and tell funny jokes
A little loving wouldn't hurt too!