Artist: The Cranberries
Released on: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee (Track #3)
Duration: 3:02
LYRICS
We better think about the things we say
We better think about the games we play-ay-ay-ay
The world went round, yea-ea-eah, around and ‘ro-ound
We better think about the consequences
We better think about the global senses
The dime went down, yea-ea-eah, the dime went do-own
What about Chernobyl
What about radiation
We don’t know, we don’t know
What about deprivation, gluttony, the human nation
We don’t know, we don’t know
For me love is all
For me love is a-a-all
For me love is all
For me love is a-a-a-a-a-all
Time is ticking out…
Looks like we screwed up the ozone layer
I wonder if the politicians care
The dime went down, yeah, the dime went down
What about our children then
Is there nothing left for them
We don’t know, we don’t know
For me love is all
For me love is a-a-a-all
For me love is all
For me love is a-a-a-a-a-a…
a-a they need oxygen, lalalalala they need oxygen
For me love is all
For me love is a-a-a-a-a-a-a…
to do do do
Time is ticking out, yea-eah, time is ticking out
CREDIT INFORMATION
- Music by Noel Hogan & Dolores O’ Riordan
- Lyrics by Dolores O’ Riordan
- Produced by Stephen Street
- Engineered by Cenzo Townsend assisted by Emma Jane Lennon and Shay Dooher at Windmill Lane, Dublin
- Mixed at Town House Studios, Shepherds Bush (London) by Stephen Street and Cenzo Townsend assisted by Tom Stanley
- Mastered at Sterling Sound by George Marino
- Publishing administered by Universal Music Publishing, Ltd, London
MEANING
- Dolores, “Time Is Ticking Out came as a result of what we were talking about earlier. Your changing awareness as a parent. I’d never have written a song like this before my children came along. But this is talking about how we screwed up our planet, in terms of, say, pollution. And how we sit by and let our governments do that.” (Hot Press · November 2001)
NOTES
- “Time Is Ticking Out” is the 2nd single from “Wake Up And Smell Up The Coffee” and was released in February 2002.
- The song was played live for the first time at Vicar Street in Dublin on 11 November 2000.
