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Release date: 25th June 2024

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Olivia Dean's 'Time' navigates the friction between presence and absence, between the pull of a relationship and the need to reclaim one's own space. The song moves through a familiar tension: the guilt of not being fully there, the exhaustion of trying to be in two places at once. Dean's voice carries the weight of that contradiction without melodrama, grounded in the simple arithmetic of the chorus: "It's up to me to spend my time / I gave you yours, so give me mine." What anchors the track is its refusal to resolve the conflict. There is no grand gesture, no sudden clarity. Instead, Dean sits with the discomfort of wanting both things at once, the gift of connection and the freedom to exist on her own terms. The repetition of "in and out of time" in the final section becomes almost meditative, a phrase worn smooth by turning it over. It's a song about the small, unglamorous work of setting a boundary and living with the guilt that comes anyway.

"Time" is a single by Olivia Dean, from the album Time - Single, released 25th June 2024. The track is 3:44 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Olivia Dean.

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Lyrics

Time

Coming back to your place
But I'm still half the world away
Coming back to your face
There's a guilt that I'm tryna place
Let me try explain
It's a gift to exist
It's a wonder to taste
And it's hard to resist
When it's all on my plate
Alright
And I'm tired
I don't know what you want me to do
If I could, then I would, but I can't split in two
Alright
It's up to me to spend my time
I gave you yours, so give me mine
And in between is hard to find
When I'm in and out of time
Am I unfamiliar
Like checking in to some foreign hotel?
Wishing I could steal ya, oh
To a place where there's no one else
Is it greedy though?
Can I ask for both?
For the gift to exist
And the wonder to taste
And it's hard to resist
When it's all on my plate
Alright
And I'm tired
I don't know what you want me to do
If I could, then I would, but I can't split in two
Alright
It's up to me to spend my time
I gave you yours, so give me mine
And in between is hard to find
When I'm in and out of time
It's up to me to spend my time
I gave you yours, so give me mine
And in between is hard to find
When I'm in and out of time
Time
Ooh
In and out of time
In and out of time
In and out of time
In and out of time
In and out of time
In and out of time
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In and out of time
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