On My Time

[Intro]
[steel guitar slide riff
Sidechained pads swell in]
[Verse 1]
He said
"You’re late again"
Boots on the welcome mat
Coffee’s gone cold on the counter
You just laughed at that
[Pre-Chorus]
You said
"Clock keeps trying to own me
But it never wears my name"
I’ve been running through these barroom ghosts
Teaching every ghost my flame (oh)
[Chorus]
I’m on my time
Not your timeline
Tick-tock talking
But it’s not mine
Watch me redraw every deadline
I’m on my time
I’m on my time
You can stare at your little watch face
I’ll be dancing in a strange place
Every second I reclaim my life
I’m on my time
I’m on my time
[Verse 2]
She said
"You’re scared to lose"
Hands on the steering wheel
Radio static between us
But I know what you feel
[Pre-Chorus]
I said
"Fear keeps trying to hold me
But it never knows my hands"
I’ve been carving out a crooked road
Through the rust and dragging sand (hey)
[Chorus]
I’m on my time
Not your timeline
Tick-tock talking
But it’s not mine
Watch me redraw every deadline
I’m on my time
I’m on my time
You can stare at your little watch face
I’ll be dancing in a strange place
Every second I reclaim my life
I’m on my time
I’m on my time
[Bridge 1]
[beat filters down
Steel guitar echoes wide]
(F) You move like the hour hand
Slow circles
Scared to bend
(M) I burn like a second’s spark
Start
Stop
Start again
(F) Meet me where the numbers blur
(M) Where late and early twist
(F) We miss the train together
(Both) And call that freedom’s kiss
[Verse 3]
We hit that late-night diner
Neon buzzing out of key
You signed your name on the napkin
Wrote
"No more owning me"
[Pre-Chorus]
(Both) We said
"Rules keep trying to name us
But they spell us wrong each time"
Trading calendars for contact
And a crooked
Shining line
[Chorus]
(Both) I’m on my time
Not your timeline
Tick-tock talking
But it’s not mine
Watch me redraw every deadline
I’m on my time
I’m on my time
Write it big across the dark sky
Our late bloom is still the right time
Every heartbeat syncing out of rhyme
We’re on our time
We’re on our time
[Bridge 2]
[industrial hits and vocoder
Half-time feel]
(M) I was born in a factory town
(F) I grew up on a gravel road
(M) You heard sirens in the city
(F) I heard crickets in the snow
(M) Thought we’d never find a middle
(F) Thought we’d always be too strange
(Both) Turns out every wasted minute
Was just interest on the change
[Verse 4]
Now your boots stomp on the dance floor
My belt buckle catching light
We are out-of-place and perfect
Glitching gold across the night
[Pre-Chorus]
(F echoing) "Clock keeps trying to own me"
(M lead) But my pulse outruns its hands
(F echoing) "Fear keeps trying to hold me"
(Both) But we’re breaking all its plans
[Chorus]
(Both) I’m on my time
Not your timeline
Tick-tock talking
But it’s not mine
Watch me redraw every deadline
I’m on my time
I’m on my time
Spinning wild inside this odd place
Sweat and starlight on your brave face
Every second that we disobey
Is our own time
Is our own way
[Bridge 3]
[beat drops; steel slide and muted synth plucks]
(M) When the morning tries to measure us
(F) With its meetings and its screens
(M) We’ll be cooking late

dance, Glassy Europop-EDM fusion with twangy steel-guitar slide hooks and gritty industrial percussion. Male and female vocals trade lead in a tight duet; female harmonies echo and answer key phrases. Verses stay pulsing but restrained with sidechain pads and dusty country guitar textures; pre-choruses lift into bright arpeggios. Choruses slam into disco-driven four-on-the-floor with wide synth stabs and stacked gang vocals. Bridges strip back to vocoder textures, filtered drums, and eerie steel swells before huge final chorus., disco, country, edm, art pop, europop, industrial, harmony