Borrowed Time (Styx song)

For the John Lennon song, see Borrowed Time (John Lennon song).
"Borrowed Time"
Single by Styx
from the album Cornerstone
B-side "Eddie"
Released 1980
Format 7"
Genre Rock
Label A&M
Writer(s) Dennis DeYoung
Tommy Shaw
Styx singles chronology
"Why Me"
(1979)
"Borrowed Time"
(1980)
"The Best of Times"
(1981)

"Borrowed Time" is a single release from Styx's 1979 triple-platinum album Cornerstone. The song was a collaboration, with lyrics by Dennis DeYoung and music by Tommy Shaw. It features a fast, hard-driving rhythm, and the memorable ending refrain, "Faith be with me now / I'm just a dreamer in a dreamland".

The band opened their concerts with this song, on their 1979-1980 "Grand Decathlon Tour" in support of Cornerstone. Next, it would serve as the first encore on the band's 1981-1982 Paradise Theatre tour.

"Borrowed Time" was the third single released of Cornerstone and was a chart disappointment, peaking at No. 64 on the U.S. pop chart in the April 1980. It also peaked at No. 76 on the Canada RPM Top 100 Singles chart the week of May 3, 1980.

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