All These Wasted Nuts - Cats, Pedagogy and Time Machines Lyrics

I have learned some lessons in a lifetime of mistakes
I'll probably learn them time and time again
Is that learning?
I don't know
Maybe the problem is in applying
Or maybe that's just how it goes

But the only way back is forwards
My friends
The only way back is forwards
The only way back is forwards
My friends
If you don't have time to build a time machine

And I've been thinking if we were cats we'd get to lay around all day and play
Whenever we felt like it
But then you wouldn't get to learn all those things that you adore
And I would not get to play my shitty songs
I would not get to play my shitty songs