I'm Outta Time

"**I'm Outta Time**" is a single by the rock band Oasis.  The song is featured on their seventh studio album _Dig Out Your Soul_.  The second single from the album, "I'm Outta Time" was written by lead vocalist Liam Gallagher and released on 1 December 2008.

## Composition

The song has similarity, in style, to John Lennon's work in the early 1970s.  The piano which features on the track partly sounds like Lennon's "Jealous Guy".  The song also has a backing piano similar to The Beatles' "A Day in the Life".  Liam jokingly claims that it took him nine years to write the song.

The song features a short speech from John Lennon taken from one of his last interviews in 1980.  The speech sample says: "As Churchill said, it's every Englishman's inalienable right to live where the hell he likes. What's it going to do, vanish? Is it not going to be there when I get back?".

## Reception

The song has been noted as one of the highlights of the album, with guitarist Noel Gallagher labeling it "deceptively brilliant".  It has also been praised by music critics, with _NME_ calling it a return to form, and comparing it to the music of Oasis-admired rock band The Beatles.

It charted at #12 in the UK Singles Chart - the first Oasis single to miss the top ten since 1994, ending the band's streak of 22 consecutive top tens.  It has so far spent a total of 24 weeks in the French Singles Chart, the most ever by any Oasis single.  However, the single spent only two weeks in the UK top 75, the least ever by any Oasis single.

## Music video

The music video for "I'm Outta Time" was released in November 2008. It was filmed in black and white, and shows Liam Gallagher, the only band member to appear in the clip, on a "surreal journey through a moon-lit English landscape".  At the end of the video, Liam is filmed in a close-up profile shot lying down. This bears resemblance to the back cover artwork for John Lennon's album "Imagine".

## Other versions

The song was covered by Lily Allen on BBC's Live Lounge on December 2, 2009.

## Charts

|align="left"|Chart (2008)|align="left"|Peak position|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|European Airplay Top 100|style="text-align:center;"|32|
|align="left"|European Hot 100 Singles|style="text-align:center;"|25|
|align="left"|French Singles Chart|style="text-align:center;"|48|
|align="left"|Germany Singles Chart|style="text-align:center;"|62|
|align="left"|Italian Singles Chart|style="text-align:center;"|41|
|align="left"|U.S. _Billboard_ Hot 100 Singles Sales|style="text-align:center;"|9|
|align="left"|UK Indie Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|
|align="left"|UK Singles Chart|style="text-align:center;"|12|

## Infobox (song)

- **name**: I'm Outta Time
- **artist**: Oasis (band), Oasis
- **album**: Dig Out Your Soul
- **released**: 1 December 2008
- **recorded**: Abbey Road Studios, London
- **genre**: Rock music, Rock, Britpop
- **length**: 4:10 <small>(album version)</small>
 3:55 <small>(video edit)</small>
- **label**: Big Brother Recordings, Big Brother
- **writer**: Liam Gallagher
- **producer**: Dave Sardy
- **prev title**: The Shock of the Lightning
- **prev year**: 2008
- **next title**: Falling Down (Oasis song), Falling Down
- **next year**: 2009