All This Time, Time Is Running Out (Muse), Will It Ever Come?
This Trio almost wound up being titled “Primer” because of the following three quotes:
On being primed:
If you’ve ever read an interview with a songwriter … you’ll hear a repeated theme: that you have to constantly be writing, and constantly be revising and playing. It seems sortof counter-intuitive, because at some point you’ve written a certain amount of material, and you feel like you should be playing or rehearsing that material. But … when you have a new idea it’s much more easy to capture that idea.It’s funny that you can apply any kind of science to songwriting. You spend a lot of years as a songwriter thinking it’s just lightning that strikes you, but there are things you can do to make yourself more of a lightning rod.
All This Time
When the chorus came in my head I literally walked to the piano and played the entire song in one go and wrote the lyrics. It all happened in 30 minutes. … Effectively the whole song came at once. It was because I was primed. That’s the challenge, you know? You have to be working on songs to have other songs that work.
Will It Ever Come?
Much like “All This Time,” it came at this point that I was very primed, in the summer of 2000. I wrote a lot of what are still my favorite songs at that time … songs that I really still play very frequently. And this one was kindof in the middle, and it just got ignored. It was at the very beginning of Crushing Krisis and I blogged the lyrics. [Ed note: Literally; I wrote them out in nine minutes in the Blogger window. They were my 81st post.]The next year when I went into the recording studio … I can honestly say I don’t know that ever played it before. And we did it in one take.
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Lyrics and chords for “Time Is Running Out” are behind the cut.
Chords for Time Is Running Out, by Muse
Though they are written in shorthand, these chords represent an extremely faithful single-guitar adaptation of this song.The main riff is contained in these pairs of notes:
(e:5/e:8) (e:5/e:7) (07xxxx) (13xxxx) (35xxxx)Verse 2 chords are: Am, Bm, E5, F5, G5
Pre-Chorus:
[F(6b) F] [Gs4 G Gs4 G] [As2 Am] [C Cadd9 C Cmaj7]Chorus: F G Am C / F G Am … F G
Falsetto: Am Dm, Am Dm E7
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Lyrics for Time Is Running Out, by Muse
I think I’m drowning, asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell that you’ve created
You’re something beautiful, a contradiction
I wanna play the game, I want the friction
You will be the death of me
You will be the death of meBury it, I won’t let you bury it
I won’t let you smother it, I won’t let you murder it
Our time is running out, Our time is running out
You can’t push it underground, You can’t stop it screaming outI wanted freedom, bound and restricted
I tried to give you up, but I’m addicted
Now that you know I’m trapped, sense of elation
You’d never dream of breaking this fixation
You will squeeze the life out of meBury it, I won’t let you bury it
I won’t let you smother it, I won’t let you murder it
Our time is running out, Our time is running out
You can’t push it underground, You can’t stop it screaming out
How did it come to this?
Trio – the original singer-songwriter web session – returns for its sixth season featuring my original music, recorded live and DIY in my bedroom. You can download this Trio, grab the single of “All This Time,” or listen to a previous Trio:
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