This is the Time (Ballast) by Nothing More
This is the Time (Ballast) by Nothing More

This is the Time (Ballast)

Nothing More * Track #2 On Nothing More

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This is the Time (Ballast) by Nothing More

Release Date
Tue Mar 11 2014
Performed by
Nothing More
Produced by
Jonny Hawkins
Writed by
Mark Vollelunga & Scott Stevens & Daniel Oliver & Will Hoffman & Jonny Hawkins
About

The 2nd track, and first full song of Nothing More’s 2014 self-titled album. It was also the lead single and the band’s breakout song, reaching #2 on the US Rock Chart in the summer of 2014.

It was written about how people hold on to things (like grudges, for example) that drag them down. ‘Ballast’...

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This is the Time (Ballast) Lyrics

[Verse 1]
When did we become these sinking stones?
When did we build this broken home?
Holding each other like ransom notes
Dropping our hearts to grip our brothers' throats

[Pre-Chorus]
You can't see because you don't know
You're caught below beneath your own shadow
Stuck inside, half alive
Do you ever stop to ask yourself why?
Close your mind, identify
Do you feel, do you feel, do you call this a life?
All you waited for
Drowning just to keep score
We always start with good intentions
But lose ourselves along the way

[Chorus]
This is the time that we let it go
These are the words that'll take us home
Singing the song that's inside us all
If we don't open our eyes, we're walking blind

[Verse 2]
Anchored in anger, we exile ourselves
Bitter blood builds our prison cells
Darker water now fills our lungs
The depths of our heart have blacked the sun

[Pre-Chorus]
You can't see because you don't know
You're caught below beneath your own shadow
Stuck inside, half alive
Do you ever stop to ask yourself why?
Close your mind, identify
Do you feel, do you feel, do you call this a life?
All you waited for
Drowning just to keep score
We always start with good intentions
But lose ourselves along the way

[Chorus]
This is the time that we let it go
These are the words that'll take us home
Singing the song that's inside us all
If we don't open our eyes, we're walking blind

[Bridge]
Naked we come, naked we leave
Fools we are, to hold tightly
We are free, we are free
(We are, we are the key, we are the jail, we are the key, yeah)

[Chorus]
This is the time that we let it go
Yeah, these are the words that'll take us home
Singing the song that's inside us all
If we just open our eyes (If we just open our eyes)
This is the time that we let it go
And this is the pain we are forced to know
Singing the song that's inside, inside us all, inside us all

[Outro]
Walking blind

This is the Time (Ballast) Q&A

Who wrote This is the Time (Ballast)'s ?

This is the Time (Ballast) was written by Mark Vollelunga & Scott Stevens & Daniel Oliver & Will Hoffman & Jonny Hawkins.

Who produced This is the Time (Ballast)'s ?

This is the Time (Ballast) was produced by Jonny Hawkins.

When did Nothing More release This is the Time (Ballast)?

Nothing More released This is the Time (Ballast) on Tue Mar 11 2014.

What did Nothing More say about "This is the Time (Ballast)"?

Taylor Hawkins told Artist Direct:

Ballast is stuff they use in submarines to make you sink to the bottom. It plays along with our metaphor for a lot of the songs at the album’s beginning – which deal with struggles of learning how to let go. The more we were holding on to some of those things, the...

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