What is going on inside his head
No one really knows for certain
Maybe a door to another dimension
Wish we could pull back the curtain
He sits all day staring into space
And plays with his toy snow globe
Rocks back forth like a drinking bird
All wrapped up in a torn bathrobe
The world goes forward but he's in reverse
It's Tommy Westphall's Universe
The scene around him is pretty chaotic
But he appears calm and cool
He moans and grunts to make his point
A lesson they don't teach at school
Well, people laugh and people die
And people vanish and then return
If he's the God behind it all
He doesn't show much concern
The world goes forward but he's in reverse
It's Tommy Westphall's Universe
It's Doctor Craig and Doctor Samuels
They are having a very strange day
Is it David Birney and William Daniels
And it's not a role that they both play
There's Helen Rosenthal and Victor Ehrlich
Wayne Fiscus and Bobby Caldwell
Luther Hawkins and Cathy Martin
All of them did not end up too well
The world goes forward but he's in reverse
It's Tommy Westphall's Universe
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