Inside Time Is Wasting Away: How Rise Up Revival Built Their Longest Song Around One Question
Tanner Orton and Nick Gehrke Wrote a Hard Rock Single About Running Out Of Time
Two lines into Time Is Wasting Away, a January single by modern hard rock band Rise Up Revival, the words stop. I’ve been walking on faulted lines, the song begins, then The cracks beneath my feet divide. After that, the lyric sheet marks a stretch with no words at all. At 4:12, it is the longest song the band has released on Spotify.
Rise Up Revival’s Time Is Wasting Away is in the playlist below, and the Rise Up Revival profile gathers the rest of their coverage. The single reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts. The programme verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Listen through to the final chorus, then read on.
That opening sets the pace for everything after it. The single came out on Friday 16 January 2026, the band’s first release of the year. Even so, it does not hurry to its point. Rise Up Revival describe themselves as a modern rock band formed in 2025. That year brought a five-track release and a further single. A week after Time Is Wasting Away arrived, the band played Redemption Bar & Grill in Herriman, Utah, on 23 January.
The name goes back further than the current line-up, though. The band’s Spotify catalogue starts with Brighter Days, a ten-track album from May 2020. One of its songs already carried the title Running Out Of Time. Six years later, the same worry returns, this time with more room to say it.
Rise Up Revival Build Time Is Wasting Away From a Pre-Chorus Confession and a Chorus That Asks for Help
The song works in plain blocks, and each one has a job. After the two opening lines and the pause, a pre-chorus does the confessing. First it talks about the weight of the world and about echoes of the past that the narrator cannot escape. Then it admits the thing the rest of the song turns on. The narrator is tired of pretending I’m okay while the truth is screaming out my name.
The chorus answers with the title. It opens on time is wasting away. Then it places the narrator stuck in the shadows of yesterday, fighting the fall but I’m slipping again. Next it asks a direct question, Can someone pull me in?, and closes on the title once more. As a result, the chorus begins and ends on the same four words.
In the middle, the song changes its approach. Four new lines arrive, and the song runs through them twice in a row. They start with I’m losing myself with every mistake. Then come the pressure that remains, a choice between breaking free and drowning, and an admission about old mistakes. Repeating the whole block gives it the weight of a decision rather than a passing thought.
From there the pre-chorus and chorus return. The lyric sheet then marks a second stretch without words. After it, the last chorus comes in straight on the title, without the ‘Cause that introduced it before.
Spotify credits the words and the music to Tanner Orton, who also sings. Nick Gehrke shares the composing credit and also mastered the track. Around Orton, the band’s current line-up adds Brandon Lester, Stevie Ragsdale and Cris Stiles.
The Question at the Heart of Time Is Wasting Away, and the Answer Rise Up Revival Give It
Nobody in the song replies to Can someone pull me in? No second voice arrives, and the lyric describes no rescue. Instead, the song answers itself with ownership. Its middle section repeats the key line: the narrator can’t keep running from the mess I made.
That makes the single part of a long tradition in American rock of songs that look time in the face. Linkin Park‘s In the End is a song about effort running down to nothing as the clock moves. The track sits eighth on their 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory. It was the album’s fourth and last single, and it climbed slowly, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2002. Time Is Wasting Away shares its fear of the hours slipping past. However, it stays with one narrator rather than trading verses.
Three Days Grace are the closer relative for the confession. Adam Gontier wrote many of the songs on One-X (2006) on his own. He worked from a journal he kept about how he felt. Later, Never Too Late, the album’s third single, spent seven weeks at number one on the US Mainstream Rock chart. That record put first-person admission at the centre of a hard rock chorus. Rise Up Revival’s single works in the same register.
Give Time Is Wasting Away its full 4:12 rather than skipping to the chorus. Its restless mood depends on the parts in between. Then go on to Dreamer, the single Rise Up Revival released in May 2026.
From the NewMusic.News Curator Team: “Releasing a song about wasted time in mid-January was a well-judged call. Everyone is still counting the first days of the year, and the single gains meaning from its date.”
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