50 Best Rock Songs About Running Out of Time
Rock Tracks That Capture the Feeling of Running Out of Time
There’s a strange panic that sneaks in when you start feeling the hours slip through your fingers. Not panic in the big, cinematic sense—more like realizing the clock’s been ticking faster than you thought. Deadlines pile up, plans unravel, and every beat feels like it’s trying to keep pace with something already gone. The best rock tracks that hit this mood carry a jitter in their rhythm, a pulse that sounds rushed even when it’s calm on the surface. You can hear it in the way the drums stumble forward or how the vocals stretch to hold on. These songs echo that familiar heartbeat of being late for something you can’t name.
It’s not always literal. Some of these tracks might be talking about loss or love or any of the usual suspects, but the undercurrent stays the same—the sense of running out of something that used to feel endless. Even in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, that feeling sneaks in between the notes. Sometimes the guitars blur into chaos like a thought spiraling. Sometimes the lyrics come out rushed, like someone trying to finish a sentence before the world fades out. The theme isn’t clean or tidy. It lingers, half-formed, like an aftertaste you can’t shake.
There’s a weird kind of energy in realizing you’re out of time. It makes you want to move faster, turn the volume up, run headfirst into the noise. These tracks lean into that rush and stretch it out until you can almost breathe again. Some of them sound frantic, others quiet and resigned, but they all live in that same restless place. Here are the best rock songs that capture the feeling of running out of time.
Top 10 Running Out of Time Rock Songs
1. 'Time Is Running Out' by Muse
2. 'Running Out of Time' by Paramore
3. 'Time' by Pink Floyd
4. 'The Final Countdown' by Europe
5. 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas
6. 'Time Stand Still' by Rush
7. '2 Minutes to Midnight' by Iron Maiden
8. 'Time Waits for No One' by The Rolling Stones
9. 'Runnin' Down A Dream' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
10. 'No Time' by The Guess Who
Best Urgency and Doom Rock Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Time Has Come Today' by The Chambers Brothers
12. 'Urgent' by Foreigner
13. 'Time Bomb' by Rancid
14. 'The End' by The Doors
15. 'Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
16. 'Run Like Hell' by Pink Floyd
17. 'Time Won't Let Me' by The Outsiders
18. 'Too Much Time on My Hands' by Styx
19. 'Long Time' by Boston
20. 'Hammer to Fall' by Queen
Classic Rock Songs About Passage of Time #21 to 30
21. 'Closing Time' by Semisonic
22. 'Fight Fire With Fire' by Metallica
23. 'Hazy Shade of Winter' by The Bangles
24. 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)' by Green Day
25. 'Into the Void' by Black Sabbath
26. 'Run to the Hills' by Iron Maiden
27. 'Clock Strikes Ten' by Cheap Trick
28. 'When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around' by The Police
29. 'Doomsday' by Architects
30. 'Only Time Will Tell' by Asia
Essential Rock Tracks on Time and Destiny #31 to 40
31. 'Time of the Season' by The Zombies
32. 'Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?' by Chicago
33. 'Ain't Wastin' Time No More' by The Allman Brothers Band
34. 'Child in Time' by Deep Purple
35. 'Doctor My Eyes' by Jackson Browne
36. 'Electric Funeral' by Black Sabbath
37. 'The Last Time' by The Rolling Stones
38. 'Time to Pretend' by MGMT
39. 'Got The Time' by Joe Jackson
40. 'Skeletons of Society' by Slayer
More Rock Songs About Running Out of Time #41 to 50
41. 'Back In Time' by Huey Lewis and the News
42. 'Time Is Tight' by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
43. 'C'est Comme ça' by Paramore
44. 'I'd Love to Change the World' by Ten Years After
45. 'Time for Me to Fly' by REO Speedwagon
46. 'The Long Run' by Eagles
47. 'The Reckoning Song (One Day)' by Asaf Avidan & The Mojos
48. '4th of July' by Soundgarden
49. 'When the Sun Burns Red' by Kreator
50. 'Tick Tock' by Bob Callaway
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