The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
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
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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