I Am Time

Time does not have to be a creditor that only takes. I Am Time turns the familiar claim that life leaves no time into a decision to be present, create, and stop postponing one's own path.

I Am Time rejects the idea of time as a foreign master that owns, chases, and constantly reminds a person of everything left undone. In place of the claim that there is no time comes a simple declaration of presence. I have time, I shape time through my choices, and it is within time that I love, work, and live. The song does not deny obligations or the real limits of a day. It speaks to the moments when a lack of time also becomes a hiding place from decision, fear, or one's own creative voice. The repeated phrases work like an awakening from postponement. The narrator invites another person into light while recognizing in them an energy that also sets him free. Time is no longer an opponent, and the future is no longer the place where life will finally begin. I Am Time returns power to the only moment in which anything can change. This breath, this step, and this decision not to postpone oneself until later.