Time

Songs that have to do with time.

Central theme

• 120 Minutes Song
• 2082
• 25 O'Clock
• 4 Years Of Norm Breaking - A Question In Song
• 8 AM
• Alarm Clock Catastrophe
• Auld Lang Syne
• By The Time You Get This
• Damn Good Times
• Four Of Two
• The Future Of Sound
• I Haven't Seen You In Forever
• I Never Go To Work
• I Lost Thursday
• It's Getting Late
• Love Takes Time
• Lost My Mind - "But I don't want to waste my time"
• Moonbeam Rays - "By the time you hear this..."
• Older
• Once A Year
• Prepare
• Push Back The Hands
• Right Before Showtime
• Seven In The Morning
• There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
• There's A New Song Every Hour
• This Is Only Going To Go One Way
• Tick Tick Tick Tick
• Toddler Hiway - "In the morning sun, 'round seven o'clock"
  • Toddler Hiway (Live) - "In some predawn hour, wheels crackin' the road"
• We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime
• When Will You Die

Briefly mentioned

• All The Lazy Boyfriends - "After you've run through your personal time"
• Am I Awake? - many references to time
• Answer - "Year after year", "It may take an ocean of whiskey and time"
• Arrest The Cigarettes - "The TV's ignoring us / And has been for days"
• Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) - "Messing around with the fabric of time"
• Best Regrets - "But I rue this day", "But I knew you in your time", "It's just excuses for today"
• Birdhouse In Your Soul (Demo) - "It's a time when even you get up and leave your nothing to dwell"
• Black Ops - "It's been a long year"
• Bread Hair - "Yeast and flour, bake an hour"
• Cabbagetown - "Time and tide are one thing"
• Camp Campingston URGR8 - "We'll make friends this summertime", "And we'll keep our friends till the wintertime"
• Canajoharie - "A fossil tooth which I must have dropped very long ago", etc.
• Careful What You Pack - "It's a new year"
• Certain People I Could Name - "Halfway through the 30 minutes"
• Chicken And Ice Cream - "One of these days"
• Christmas In The Big House - "Hoping I'll be alone (Happy New Year) next year"
• Confusing The Mind - "Let's start one step at a time"
• Darling, The Dose - "Time has the power / to bind us too close", "For three long years we've walked alone", "Time's in reverse / till you fall out of step"
• Dimension Six Rock - The verse about dimension four
• Dollar For Dollar - "Invest in the past"
• Don't I Have The Right? - "Though it's past three AM"
• Employee Of The Month - "I'm set all day for making crumbs"
• Everybody Knows It - "April! Now I recall the month! April!"
• Feel Good Sublet - "This place will hold us for one whole summer"
• First Kiss - "Build a time machine and go"
• Flo Wheeler - "You can't do the time / Therefore you didn't do the crime"
• Fun Assassin - "Where did we bury the time?", "Dawn begins"
• Haunted Floating Eye - "A hundred years ago"
• Hello Hello - "Did you kiss me all night long", "To think about me every day", "Did you miss me every single day"
• Hovering Sombrero - "Time is flying like an arrow"; clock, calendar, 100 years passing
• How Now Dark Cloud? - "Until the dawn"
• Hypnotist Of Ladies - "Never had a pocket watch"
• I Am A Ring - "All the time, all the days / I'm awake"
• I Beat The Wiz - "I tracked that guy for days"
• I Broke My Own Rule - "The end of the hallway, the hallway at the end / Way at the end of time"
• I Like Fun - "Count the tock / Of the drugstore clock"
• I Palindrome I - "See the spring of the grandfather clock unwinding"
• I'm A Coward - "I need a confidant who can see past my faults / And take the time to save me from myself"
• I've Learned The Value Of Human Sacrifice - "I've been tested time and time again"
• Impossibly New - "Walking through a world so dated / Made of bones and wood so ancient"
• Judy Is Your Viet Nam - "Ten years on and something's shifted"
• The Kids Are Alright - "Those times"
• Kids Go! - "And if you're hearing this song then it's time to jump along"
• Kids Took Over - "That's when the future began"
• The King Of Wingo - "Long ago in a bucket of mud"
• Lazy - "While I'm killing time being lazy"
• Let Me Tell You About My Operation - "Front lawn, break of dawn"
• Let Your Hair Hang Down - "It is now the time to untie your hair"
• Let's Get This Over With - "...you can watch your shadow / Creep across the ground until the day is done"
• London - "Will I get to shower / In the one remaining hour? / Will there even be the time?"
• Long White Beard - "The alarm clock rang and I gasped"
• Lord Snowdon - "Our time is over", "In the haze of these final days", "Oh, don't pine for another time"
• Lunch Is Over - "And time has taken my boat away"
• Meh (We Are Meh) - "There's only two seconds"
• Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2 - "Frankly, I was scared / About time, about time"
• Nanobots - "I turn my back for two minutes and they've grown again"
• Negative Ad - "They Might Be Giants have been on the road for too long", "And they still have time for other songs"
• Night Security - "Its massive size implies the scope of what I'm able to unlock any time"
• Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon - "Forever is a long time"
• No Cops - "In the time that we permit"
• Now I Know - "I know that I only wish I / Could reach my hand into the past"
• Now We Have To Go - "It's time for us to say, 'So long!'"
• O, Do Not Forsake Me - "I am one thousand years old"
• Oddball - "Because time between the oddballs is so very long"
• On The Drag - "With all this time to kill", "With all this time you waste"
• Or So I Have Read - "Someday in the distant future..."
• Particle Man - "He's got a watch with a minute hand, millennium hand, and an eon hand"
• Pet Name - "And you're looking up to the hour hand"
• Plain As The Lie On Your Lips - "The hour has come and gone and talk is cheap"
• Quit The Circus - "You hijack my thoughts / Every single night", "Scarecrows only work in the light"
• Road Movie To Berlin - "Time won’t find the lost"
• Robot Parade - "In a future time..."
• Rocket Ship - "Second day of the trip / Of the trip inside the rocket ship / Second week, second year..."
• Save Your Life - "Don't waste your time"
• The Second Longest Night - "You'll meet her at eleven at Hank's Saloon"
• Skullivan - "I'll just be a moment / I'll just be an instant"
• Snowball In Hell - "'How long you been here, Joe?' 'Oh, I don't know, I guess 30, 45 minutes maybe'", "'Back on that old Time is Money kick, right?'"
• The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - "Monday" and "Thursday"
• The Songs Of The 50 States - "The time has come for us to sing about a certain place", "The time is nigh for us to sigh about a certain place", "Keeping me awake / Late at night"
• Stalk Of Wheat - "And it took me till the end of time"
• Starry Eyes - "We had no time for cocktails"
• Synopsis For Latecomers - "If you came late and missed the commotion", "That's all the questions that time will permit"
• Tavern In Pinsk - "So pass another glass to pass the time till the savior comes"
• That Thing You Do - "Every minute of the day you're on my mind"
• This Microphone - "And taking my time, taking my time"
• Too Tall Girl - "As the months turn to days in this too tall time"
• Towson - "I have stood outside the entrance for 25 of your earth years"
• Trouble Awful Devil Evil - "Ten thousand years have passed and still I continue to descend"
• Trucker's Coffee - "Not a care in the world, just time on my hands", "They were dressed like hippies, from another time", "A few years back they had a big rock show"
• Turn Around - "I was working all night in my office"
• Unpronounceable - "Time stopped When you said hello"
• Up The Junction - "This morning at 4:50"
• The Velvet Ape - "The year is 1970ld"
• Wait Actually Yeah No - "Wait a second"
• Weep Day - "Simultaneous events don't happen / We are isolated temporally", "And it's samba time for Tambo"
• What Is A Shooting Star? - "The minute it comes down to Earth"
• White Sport Coat - "Once a long, long time ago"
• Who Put The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order? - "Back in ancient times..."
• Whole Lot Of Glean - "We're going to stay up all night"
• XTC Vs. Adam Ant - "Time is marching on"
• You Don't Like Me - "I can see the future / Like it's in the past"

Honorable mention

• Drive Time Volume Two
• Experimental Film - In the Homestar Runner video, the clock ticking above the Johns' heads
• Lincoln's cover shows two podiums fronted by a pair of clocks

See also

• Age
• Backwards