"I have to admit it's getting better / a little better all the time / (it can't get no worse)"

[larryhammer]

So where are the songs in which time is a friend of the singer?

Bonus points for country songs.

---L.

Comments

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Beautiful South--"A Little Time" is what pops to mind right off. I may think of more once my brain wakes up.

[larryhammer]

Hee. Hadn't met that one before, and it's a hilarious video. I'm not sure it counts, as the male speaker's claim is clearly undercut and denied by the woman.

---L.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Pixie Lott, 'Turn it Up': "Have you heard this this thing that heals, and it's called time?"

[larryhammer]

Excellent.

---L.

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

"Time is On My Side" - The Rolling Stones

[larryhammer]

That was one of the few I could think of.

---L.

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

"Patience" - Guns 'N Roses

[larryhammer]

"I can take time if I need to" isn't quite the same thing, tho'.

---L.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Billy Joel, "Keepin' the Faith"

[larryhammer]

Hmm. That's closer to "I've made peace with the past," in my mind. But I guess it can be read as "time's on my side" ...

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

"This is Love," Mary Chapin Carpenter.

[larryhammer]

That I think counts. Score.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's kind of tangential, but how about the Byrds, "My Back Pages" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niaYHzGwPu0&feature=fvst)? Thinking of "But I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now."

[larryhammer]

Slightly tangential, yeah -- it's closer to "with time, I get better."

Though trying to oversimplify Dylan into a phrase that small is always fraught.

---L.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

"Color My World" ("As time goes on I realize just what you mean to me...")

"These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" ("One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you")

"Someday We'll Be Together"

"Turn, Turn, Turn"

"Tomorrow"

[larryhammer]

Ah -- yes, a couple good ones there. Thanks!

---L.

[genarti]

I don't know if this counts as a friend or not, but there's "Time" by Tom Waits, which I know only in the Tori Amos cover. (A very different version, I know just from knowing Tom Waits's voice, but the lyrics are all the same AFAIK.)

Half of the songs on Dar Williams' The Beauty of the Rain at least somewhat fit. "The Mercy of the Fallen," "I Saw A Bird Fly Away," "Farewell To The Old Me," "The One Who Knows," and "Closer To Me" all spring to mind. Same with The Green World: "After All" and "Spring Street" and possibly "We Learned The Sea," at least.

Edit: these are mostly somewhat figurative. If you want actual references to the word "time," I'll have to double-check lyrics.

[larryhammer]

"Closer to Me" definitely fits -- I'm not sure about the others from BotR, but that does. Well, "The One Who Knows" is close. It's been a couple weeks since I listened to GW, tho', so I'll have to think about those.

Oh, and "Time" looks like it definitely fits, despite the ambiguities.

---L.