Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time

“Time After Time” – Single by Cyndi Lauper from the album She’s So Unusual, released January 27, 1984 with B-side “I’ll Kiss You”

Cyndi Lauper wrote this highly emotional song with Rob Hyman of The Hooters, who also sang backup on the track. She came up with the title when she saw it in the magazine TV Guide.

Time After Time is the name of a 1979 science fiction movie starring Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells, whose time machine is stolen by Jack The Ripper, who uses it to travel from 1893 to 1979. Wells follows him into the future and goes on a quest to stop him from killing. Rob Hyman told Songfacts: “When she saw Time After Time, something clicked. She said, ‘I think I have a title.'”

At the beginning of the video, Lauper is watching a movie, but it’s not Time After Time: it’s the 1936 film Garden of Allah.

According to Lauper, the tear she sheds at the end of the video is authentic. She rejected the director’s suggestion to manually induce a tear because she was confident in her ability to cry when she wanted to.

“Time After Time” has entered many lists of “Best Love Songs of All Time”, “Best Ballads from the 80s” and others. Bill Lamb, also from About.com, placed the song at number 21 on his “Top 100 Best Love Songs Of All Time” list. On Nerve’s list of “The 50 Greatest Love Songs of All Time”, “Time After Time” was placed at number 5, being called “Lauper’s most enduring masterpiece hits at the very essence of commitment,” with the article pointing out that “she captures real romance in the most simple and straightforward of lines: ‘If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me, time after time’.

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Lyrics:

Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of you
Caught up in circles, confusion is nothing new
Flashback, warm nights almost left behind
Suitcases of memories, time after…

Sometimes you picture me, I’m walking too far ahead
You’re calling to me, I can’t hear what you’ve said
Then you say, “Go slow”, I fall behind
The second hand unwinds

If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting
Time after time

If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting
Time after time

After my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray
Watching through windows, you’re wondering if I’m OK
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time

If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting
Time after time

You said, “Go slow”, I fall behind
The second hand unwinds

If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting
Time after time

If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting
Time after time

Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
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