Michael Stipe has teamed up with the band Big Red Machine on a new song called No Time For Love Like Now available on the 37d03d label. You may have heard snippets of this track as Stipe recorded an at home performance of it during COVID quarantine. This track was written last fall but the lyrics are especially relevant in this time of social distancing and self-isolation.
No Time For Live T-shirts are on sale now and all proceeds will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative and COVID-19 Protest Relief Fund.
Lyrics
no time for breezy
no time for arguments
no time for love like now
there’s no time in the bardo
no time in the in-between
no time for love like now
there’s no time for dancing
no time for undecideds
no time for love like now
where did this all begin to change
the lockdown memories can’t sustain
this glistening, hanging free fall
i turned away from the glorious light
i turned my head and cried
whatever waiting means in this new place
i am waiting for you
there’s no time for honey
no time for psalms and thresholds
whisper a sweet prayer sigh
where did this all begin to change
the lockdown memories can’t sustain
this glistening hanging free fall
i turned away from the glorious light
i turned my head and cried
whatever waiting means in this new place
i am waiting for you
your voice is echoing love love love love love
i hear it far far away
and i am here waiting for you
i am waiting for you
whatever waiting means in this new place
i am waiting for you
i am waiting for you
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