Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Not my time
Not my time
Looking back at the beginning of this
And how life was
Just you and me and love and all of our friends
Living life like an ocean
But now the current's only pulling me down
It's getting harder to breath, I can't breath
It won't be too long and I will be going under
Can you save me from this?
'Cause it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me, it's not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know, ooh but I won?t go, I won't go
I look ahead to all the plans that we made
And the dreams that we had, dreams we had
I'm in a world that tries to take them away
Oh, but I'm taking them back
'Cause all this time I've just been too blind to understand
What should matter to me, baby you matter to me
My friends this life we live, it's not what we have
This life is what we believe in
It?s not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me, it?s not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a will in me and now I know that
This could be the end of me
And everything I know, ooh but I won't go
There might be more than you believe
There might be more than you believe
There might be more than you can see
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me, it's not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a will in me and now it's gonna show
This could be the end of me
And everything I know, oh but I won't go
Oh no, I won't go down, yeah
Not my time
Looking back at the beginning of this
And how life was
Just you and me and love and all of our friends
Living life like an ocean
But now the current's only pulling me down
It's getting harder to breath, I can't breath
It won't be too long and I will be going under
Can you save me from this?
'Cause it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me, it's not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know, ooh but I won?t go, I won't go
I look ahead to all the plans that we made
And the dreams that we had, dreams we had
I'm in a world that tries to take them away
Oh, but I'm taking them back
'Cause all this time I've just been too blind to understand
What should matter to me, baby you matter to me
My friends this life we live, it's not what we have
This life is what we believe in
It?s not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me, it?s not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a will in me and now I know that
This could be the end of me
And everything I know, ooh but I won't go
There might be more than you believe
There might be more than you believe
There might be more than you can see
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me, it's not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a will in me and now it's gonna show
This could be the end of me
And everything I know, oh but I won't go
Oh no, I won't go down, yeah
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It's Not My Time Lyrics as written by Christopher Lee Henderson Bradley Kirk Arnold
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