"It's Not My Time" is the first official single from the self-titled fourth

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by rock band 3 Doors Down. The song was serviced to US

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radio on February 18, 2008. Lyrically, the song focuses on "being resilient, going against the grain and going against the world when the world's trying to push you down, or take you out," lead singer

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said. The song topped the US ''

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chart for three weeks. An acoustic version was also available on

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as a pre-order.

Background

"It's Not My Time" was originally written for the remake of the film '' The Poseidon Adventure''. Brad Arnold explained: "It was gonna be a track on that movie. In the movie, they're just trying to escape their death. And there's a ship sinking. They showed me like a 30-second clip of the movie, and I went and wrote that song from it. And they wound up not wanting it, so I was like, Cool, we'll keep it. And that's actually the second song off a film like that. I wrote "

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" off of ''

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'' for ''Spiderman,'' and they didn't want it, so we kept it. I'm glad. I had no problem with it."

Release and chart performance

The song was officially added to US

radio on February 18, 2008. By its first official day of release, it was the most-added track at both active- and modern-rock radio stations. The song debuted at number 37 on the ''

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chart for the week of March 1, 2008. It went on to top the chart, becoming the band's eighth top-10 single and fifth number-one single on the chart. It debuted at number 38 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, eventually peaking at number five. The song peaked at number 17 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, making it the band's fifth top-20 hit on that chart. The song became their second number one on the Adult Top 40, following "

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". In Canada, Finland, and New Zealand, "It's Not My Time" reached the top 20, peaking at number 20 on the

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, number 12 in Finland, and number 18 in New Zealand. It was their third top-40 hit in Australia, peaking at 26. It has also reached the top 40 in Germany.

Music video

The video was shot in

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, on April 1, 2008. The shoot was done in Over-the-Rhine,

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and other locations around the city. The

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was officially premiered by Universal Republic on April 23, 2008. The beginning sequences were shot on top of the shelter structures, at Bellevue Park, edited to appear as a tall building. The video begins with a man (Gabriel Nunez of the free-running outfit Team Tempest) standing on the roof of a pavilion in a local park. A scene then shows a mother and her daughter driving in a car. As the clock in the car turns to 10:13 they are hit from the side by a truck. The video then goes back to the man on the rooftop, who looks at his iPhone, displaying the time 10:08. When the time turns to 10:09, he immediately begins to run, and jumps off the building, landing safely on the ground. The video then proceeds to follow the man, as he rapidly traverses on foot through the city, avoiding numerous city obstacles by performing acrobatic maneuvers of

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. The man is shown jumping high fences, leaping across city rooftops, hopping over vehicles, somersaulting through an empty pool, among various other stunts. The video also shows the woman and her daughter in the car at several points, where the clock shows the times 10:11, and 10:12. At the end of the video, the man leaps in front of the woman's car right at 10:13, causing the woman to stop, thereby avoiding the fatal accident seen in the beginning. The band is shown throughout the video performing on the rooftop where the man started from. At the end they are seen performing on a skywalk, overlooking where the accident would have happened.

Track listing

EP version # "It's Not My Time" – 4:03 # "Who Are You" – 3:10 # "It's Not My Time" (acoustic) – 3:57

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2008 singles 2008 songs 3 Doors Down songs Music videos directed by Shaun Silva Song recordings produced by Johnny K Songs written by Brad Arnold Songs written by Chris Henderson (American musician) Songs written by Matt Roberts (musician) Songs written by Todd Harrell Universal Republic Records singles