Your Time Will Come



She walks right through my head
Leaves me reeling behind
I've never been in such a stirring scene
Think I'm finding my mind
Sure as his brand new dream
Wakes from his wizened dream
To come a day, shake his shroud away
Wonder where have I been

While I wait
She will play
The signs and the seasons, rhymes and the reasons
I can be sure she'll say:

Your time will come, your river it will run
Summer skies will light your eyes
She says what she says because she knows
Because she is on your side

She walks right through my head
Leaves me reeling behind
I've never been in such a stirring scene
Think I'm finding my mind

Sure as his brand new dream
Wakes from his wizened dream
To come a day, shake his shroud away
Wonder where have I been

Your time will come, your river it will run
Summer skies will light your eyes
She says what she says because she knows
Because she is on your side

Your time will come, your river it will run
Summer skies will light your eyes
She says what she says because she knows
Because she is on your side


Lyrics by:
Squire / Brown

Music by:
Squire / Brown

Written:
1987

Personnel (live):
John Squire (guitar)
Ian Brown (vocals)
Pete Garner (bass)
Alan Wren (drums, backing vocals)

Produced by:
N / A

Available on:
Never released on any official album. Live performance available on Manchester International I (26th June 1987) bootleg.

First live performance:
In 1987

Details:
Your Time Will Come is an excellent track that should have been worked on to its full potential. After the performance of this at the Manchester International I in 1987 (the only available recording of this track), Ian says to the crowd, "Didn't like that one much, did you ?".

The chorus draws upon the first miracle by Jesus, at a wedding in Cana, Galilee, where He turned water into wine. See (John 2: 1 - 11), 'Jesus Changes Water to Wine'. Mary informed her son that the wine had run out at the wedding:

Jesus knew that if He performed the miracle, this would have meant that His time had come. Mary knew what she was asking of Jesus ("She says what she says because she knows") in pointing this out. And Mary, the mother of Jesus, was obviously on his side ("Because she is on your side"). John informs us that the wine Jesus made came from six stone water jars, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. These jars were used by Jews to fulfil the rules on ceremonial washing. In the transformation of water by Jesus in this, His first miracle, the river of His ministry began to run ("Your time will come, your river it will run"), its source symbolically taking over from the 'old' way and customs of the Pharisees (see One Love for the connotations which "river" has within the context of Your Time Will Come). The song appears to be linking the first miracle by Jesus to His eventual Resurrection, where He:

In this TOTP interview from 2005, Ian cites the Bible as a significant influence:


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