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Earlier recordings of this tune appear on the zimmermans' album, Cut, and on Spottiswoode & His Enemies' eponymous debut album.

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When your heart is cold, when you're feeling old
When your whole life's a joke which you've already told
When you've done your tour, when there's nothing more
When you've seen, heard and swallowed it all before
When the world is dreary, when you're world-weary
When it's been so long since you've been teary-eyed
When you're just depressed, always unimpressed
When it's second nature now to be dissatisfied

It is time, It is time, It is time

When all your friends are so bourgeois
But you don't complain because that's who and what you are
When it's dinners and lunches, fundraising brunches
When you're so civilized you've learned how to pull your punches
And the avant-garde, you now speak of it rudely
So instead you have long conversations about inconsequential movies
When you take the train to work and everything's the same
When you push, shove, push, shove and kick till you're back on the train again

It is time, It is time, It is time

When you sense the night in broad daylight
When you still know what's wrong but you no longer know what's right
When you're just resigned, made up your mind
That it's not kind to be cruel but it's cruel to be kind
And the horrible news that you're not so clever
You're learning it now though you know you've known it forever
When you finally give up and you stop ignoring
That you've turned into your father who turned into his father before him

It is time, It is time, It is time, It is time, It is time

Time to have children
It’s time to have children
It’s time to have children
It is time

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from I Have So Many Friends, released August 1, 2023
Spottiswoode: Vocals and guitar
Jonny Gee: Double Bass and vocals
Matti Müller: Guitar and vocals
Angi Stricker: Vocals

© Jonathan Spottiswoode, J Spot Music ASCAP

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For over 2 decades, Spottiswoode & His Enemies have been a constantly self-reinventing New York institution. The IMA winners recently earned three more nominations for their 7th record, LOST IN THE CITY, “an immersive theater-of-the-mind love letter to New York”.

Spottiswoode's songs appear in numerous TV shows and films including Either Side Of Midnight for which he also wrote the screenplay. ... more

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