Debbie Christ’s “I’ve Got Time” spins a tale of how in life you don’t get a lot of good guidance and you kind of have to figure out your own way with few solid role models. And the more you go through life you find out that you’re expected to conform to some diminished version of those notions you get, at least as a North American, that you can grow up to be whatever you want and to dream big, reach for that American dream. But Clara Harwood aka Debbie Christ is a Canadian so that narrative is a little different but when she sings “How can anybody run without knowing how to walk?” while contemplating how to achieve her dreams and concluding, in the choruses, “I’ve got time/But how much?” The song and Harwood’s vocals hearken back to that 1980 debut X album Los Angeles and its portraits of a city where people go to seek out their dreams only to find out the reality is much more complex and disheartening and bleak than you may have been lead to believe. “I’ve Got Time” in particular in moments is reminiscent of “Your Phone’s Off the Hook, But You’re Not” and how it’s propulsive and if it’s punk it’s as steeped in poetry and guitar sounds well beyond stereotypes of the genre. And that touch of croon and cyclical song structure that is as exciting as it is entrancing is there as well. Clearly Debbie Christ is aware that it’s important to have dreams and aspirations to guide you but that too often you’re not going to have them handed to you, you’re better off creating them from a place genuine to you and your best interests because it’s too easy to be off on a fool’s errand sold to you as your own heart’s desire. Listen to “I’ve Got Time” on Spotify and follow Debbie Christ on Instagram.
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