Time Is Ticking Out

{{Infobox song

| name = Time Is Ticking Out

| cover = TimeIsTickingOut.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| B-side = "Time Is Ticking Out" (Marius de Vries remix)

| released = {{start date|2002|2|4|df=y}}{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/ISSUE623.pdf|title=The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 04/02/2002|publisher=ARIA|page=26|date=4 February 2002|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20020220130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020221-0000/www.aria.com.au/ISSUE623.pdf|archive-date=20 February 2002|access-date=3 March 2025}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre =

| length = 2:59

| label = MCA

| writer = Dolores O'Riordan, Noel Hogan

| producer = Stephen Street

| prev_title = Analyse

| prev_year = 2001

| next_title = This Is the Day

| next_year = 2002

| misc =

}}

"Time Is Ticking Out" is a song by Irish band the Cranberries. It was the second single from their fifth studio album, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, on 4 February 2002. Dolores O'Riordan wrote the song after she had seen the children of Chernobyl born with many illnesses.{{cite web |url=https://www.chernobyl-international.com/memory-dolores-oriordan-love/ |title=In memory of Dolores O'Riordan |author= |date=16 January 2018 |website=Chernobyl Children International |access-date=10 May 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200510092841/https://www.chernobyl-international.com/memory-dolores-oriordan-love/ |archive-date=10 May 2020}} The Cranberries donated all the proceeds of the single to the Chernobyl Children’s Project charity. A promotional video, directed by Maurice Linnane, features the band members as modern-life The Wizard of Oz characters.

Remixes

As for the "Analyse" single, music producer Marius de Vries was commissioned to remix "Time Is Ticking Out". Four versions of the up-tempo remix were released, either physically or digitally. The long version was made available on the 4-track commercial single, while a 3:59-edit version was featured on some promotions CDs as well as on the Asian Tour Special Edition of Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. An instrumental mix was also released on vinyl. Finally, a slightly different 4:55 version of unknown origin was released digitally on Internet.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}