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Anthrax

Time

Release date: 21st August 1990

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About This Track

"Time" is a track by Anthrax, from the album Persistence of Time, released 21st August 1990. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Anthrax

Anthrax

Lyrics

Time

[Clock Ticking]

[Verse 1]

I got so much trouble on my mind

Paranoia time, I'm running out of life

Clockwise and the seconds tick away

Each line that cuts my face

Cut as each hand moves into place

[Refrain]

Paranoia, amped and wired

[Verse 2]

Bile black

The thoughts that run my head

There's so much to be said

They're so much living dead

Walking corpses shambling through life

With nothing in their sight

Dance on their bones

Step in and fight

[Refrain]

Paranoia, amped and wired

[Verse 3]

Life and death are fighting for my time

I can't seem to find the time

I want what's mine

Time through the clock

Just keeps talking

It just walks any damn place

Ohh, it feels like walking

[Pre-Chorus]

My mind keeps thinking

Clockwise as the seconds tick away

I make my move today

[Chorus]

Time and life, life and time

To have and hold

And sometimes find

It isn't mine, it isn't yours

Man to man, I'll fight you for

Time and life, life and time

One day I'll get what's mine

Through the persistence of time

Huh!

[Verse 4]

Life and death as words

They don't mean shit

It's what you do with them

And how you live with it

Raging like a bull inside a cage

Just give me a stage

Where this bull can rage

[Refrain]

Paranoia, amped and wired

[Verse 5]

Life and death are fighting for my time

I can't seem to find the time

I want what's mine

Time through the clock

Just keeps talking

It just walks any damn place

Oh, it feels like walking

[Pre-Chorus]

My mind keeps thinking

Clockwise as the seconds tick away

I make my move today

[Chorus]

Time and life, life and time

To have and hold

And sometimes find

It isn't mine, it isn't yours

Man to man I'll fight you for

Time and life, life and time

One day I'll get what's mine

Through the persistence of time

[Interlude]

Go!

[Guitar solo]

[Bridge]

Paranoia's lost its hold on

Paranoia's lost its hold on

Paranoia's lost its hold on

Paranoia's got no hold on me

Time don't have nothing

To do with how high you can

Time don't got nothing

To do with how high you can count

[Chorus]

Time and life, life and time

To have and hold

And sometimes find

It isn't mine, it isn't yours

Man to man I'll fight you for

Time and life, life and time

One day I'll get what's mine

Through the persistence of time

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From Persistence of Time

1990
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Persistence of Time
Persistence of Time
Anthrax
Release year
1990
  1. —Keep It in the Family
  2. —Time
  3. —Discharge
  4. —H8 Red
  5. —Blood
  6. —Protest and Survive
  7. —"Backwards Message Quiz"
  8. —Belly of the Beast
  9. —Gridlock
  10. —Intro to Reality
  11. —One Man Stands

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Writer
Charlie Benante, Dan Spitz, Frank Bello, Joey Belladonna, Scott Ian
Producer
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Bass
Frank Bello
Drums
Charlie Benante
Vocals
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