Time
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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"
- 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 - "Caring is carving bad ideas to the dawn"
- 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
