Do you know the Muse song, "Time is Running Out"? It popped into my head today as, I think, a result of severe hypochondria (is it hypochondria if it turns out you really DO have something wrong with you?). Anyway I realized this both pretty much epitomizes the way I frequently feel about 1) relationships; 2) life; and 3) well, exams, kinda :-P.

I'm too lazy to look up the dates, but I'm thinking definitely pre-2005 at least. It's hard to take this song super seriously when I feel like it kind of reeks of teenagerhood, but you know, I think it took me about five extra years to become a teenager, which means I'm like, 21 now or something. Anyway so below are 1) the lyrics; and 2) the video. You'll prob remember the song.

What confuses me: HOW does this video have ANYTHING to do with the song? I should show this to my students as proof that a music video (e.g., Shakira) does *not* actually explain a song.

Secondly, the comments on youtube link it to TWILIGHT. And it's true the lyrics are super vampiric and Bella-like, but it's kind of hilarious that people grab a song from however many years ago and appropriately miss-apply it (in that it has nothing to do with Twilight literally, but it does thematically). Or maybe it's in the new movie or something, what do I know?

Actually, as I reread the lyrics and think "Twilight," it's kind of impossible *not* to see the connection. . . but seriously when it popped into my head I wasn't even thinking about vampires! Not literal ones anyway. . . (but love is vampiric read my undergrad honors thesis e.g. jane eyre + dracula symbolism blah).

"Time is Running Out"

I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
That you've created

You're something beautiful
A contradiction
I wanna play the game
I want the friction

You will be the death of me
You will be the death of me

Bury it
I won't let you bury it
I won't let you smother it
I won't let you murder it

Our time is running out
Our time is running out
You can't push it underground
You can't stop it screaming out

I wanted freedom
Bound and restricted
I tried to give you up
But I'm addicted

Now that you know I'm trapped sense of elation
You'd never dream of
Breaking this fixation

You will squeeze the life out of me

Bury it
I won't let you bury it
I won't let you smother it
I won't let you murder it

Our time is running out
Our time is running out
You can't push it underground
You can't stop it screaming out
How did it come to this?
Oh

You will suck the life out of me

Bury it
I won't let you bury it
I won't let you smother it
I won't let you murder it

Our time is running out
Our time is running out
You can't push it underground
You can't stop it screaming out
How did it come to this?