Time

"Children killing in the street, dying for the color of red... hey there, Red and Blue..."

This could be about gang-war amongst youths. Red and blue are the colors for the Bloods and Crips, respectively; something of an anthem against senseless street violence, perhaps.

"Time" is a very deep and thoughtful song. You hear it on the radio all the time and it kind of cheapens it but here's a shocker.

Change most references to "time" to "God" and you will see what Darius Rucker really means to say in this song. It doesn't make a lot of sense to say you don't believe in time when making such a laundry list of things that are going wrong every day in the world and in one's personal life ... but a lot more sense to say you don't believe in God after all that.

time is burning away all the secondsof our lives and hes saying that hes just gonna live his life cuz time doesnt matter to him

This is about how time always keeps going on and on. It waits for know one, and always leaves you behind. It also mentions how everyone is killing and how there's so much 'pain and sorrow' in the world. Basically, itf you look deeper into it, all that's for nothing, because time's going to move on no matter who wins. I think he's given up on trying to figure it all out and worrying about it. He's just going to go with it, and let time drag him along like it would do anyways. He wants to learn about it, but if it's all over tomorrow, he wouldn't care.

as time goes on, things are getting worse

This song makes me a little teary eyed, because like most people i am afraid of how time passes, each second alother one closer to our deaths and a second we cant ever get back. THe song is saying to me, why bother fighting and killing when you only have so much time granted to you. Why not use that time to really enjoy life?

fully agree with chesire cat, amazing song

fully agree with chesire cat, amazing song

Sometimes, songs could really be pieces of dialogue...

I think the singer is having a conversation with time personified. Maybe that's too abstract a concept, but I agree with the other interpretations on here.

time is something that stays the same thoughout and it is somethng that cannot change under any circamstances therefore why think about it. basically time doesn't work out and people blame there shortcommings on time even through it never changes. so basically hes saying why worry about. its not changing, shifting or fixing anything by thinking about it,all it does is wastes time. therefore you need to live life and not pay attention to the deeper meaning. time can screw up manything including relationships. almost every relationship doesn't work out becaus of time in one way or another. and its not changing so its time to stop worrying about it. this i belive is what hes talking about in the song.