This Time is a project about release: the desire for it, the pursuit of it, and its approach. Each song offers a meditation on the way of release and what it requires: awakening to possibility (“Something More”), receptivity (“Key of Gray”), faith in the form of patient waiting (“What If”), and radical action (“This Time”). “Something More” expresses an intense yearning to transcend limitations and a growing sense that it just might be possible. “Key of Gray” describes the experience of being called to inspired creativity and contemplation: a girl is summoned to her piano and transformed while playing it. “What If?” stages a hopeful call-and-positive response encounter as a witness to another’s dark night encourages perseverance and expectation of dawn. An anthem of emancipation, the title track “This Time” celebrates that moment when enough is enough, you know it, and you set yourself free.
- Something More
- Key of Gray
- What If?
- This Time
- Something More (Instrumental)
- Key of Gray (Instrumental)
- What If? (Instrumental)
- This Time (Instrumental)
“Something More, “Key of Gray,” and “What If?” were written and composed by Sarah Prodan.
“This Time” was co-written and co-composed by Heather Hill and Sarah Prodan.
All piano and vocals were performed by Sarah Prodan. All songs were orchestrated and mixed by Robert Sibony and co-produced by Sarah Prodan and Robert Sibony. Piano and vocals were recorded with Dajaun Martineau (engineer and vocal producer) and Garrett Duncan (assistant engineer) in Studio D at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. Guitar was performed by Bruce Dies. Cello was performed by Michael Peter Olsen. French horn was performed by Micajah Sturgess. Final mastering was done by Emerson Mancini at Demifugue Mastering in Los Angeles, California.
Release date: 3 November 2025. To listen, stream, or purchase, click here.
Thank you to Kalli Lang for capturing these and other magical moments near the canyons of Brentwood and while recording piano and vocals for This Time at Westlake’s Studio D in LA.
Lyrics
- Something More
Push, and pull, and prod
It’s just another day
Waking up with dread
And that voice I can’t escape
Why do I do the things I do?
Struggle is a virtue
It brings its own rewards
In time it’s sure to pay
In oh so many ways
Who’s to say that’s the truth today?
I want to be free
I want to feel whole
To know that what I do
Is for something more
I want to be free
I want to feel whole
To know that what I do
Is for something more
Want, and strive, and slave
Every day’s the same
Working to the bone
For far too little gain
Why do we do the things we do?
They prompt me every day
To listen and obey
They say they know it’s hard
But there’s just no other way
Who’s to say that’s the truth today
I want to be free
I want to feel whole
To know that what I do
Is for something more
I want to be free
I want to feel whole
To know that what I do
Is for something more
It’s time to be brave
To be bold
To be sure
Reach beyond the cage
Transcend habit’s ways
Be my something more
I want to be free
I want to feel whole
To know that what I do
Is for something more
I want to be free
I want to feel whole
To know that what I do
Is for something more
Who’s to say that things can’t change today?
Who’s to say that things can’t be great?
I want to be free
2. Key of Gray
It’s happening again
An image creeping in
And it seizes the depths of me
Sometimes, it shows up as beauty
Sometimes, it brings me to my knees
And I stand here
Try to get clear
As a storm swells within
I love you
I hate you
Thank you
You’re ever with me
Every feeling
Contradiction
Resolves in a key of gray
I’m just a girl at her piano
Trying to make sense of mystery
A silent witness
Trying to give shape to all that moves in me
She sits there in the sun
Beckons me to come
And I listen
I heed
It’s a call to recognition
Of a prompting
An inner need
And I stand here
Try to get clear
As a storm swells within
I love you
I hate you
Thank you
You’re ever with me
Every feeling
Contradiction
Resolves in a key of gray
I’m just a girl at her piano
Trying to make sense of mystery
A silent witness
Trying to give shape to all that moves in me
I love you
I hate you
Thank you
You’re ever with me
Every feeling
Contradiction
Resolves in a key of gray
A key of grace
3. What If?
Oooooh Oooh Oooooh
Oooooh Oooh Oooooh
Your gray eyes don’t lie
I see you this time
You can’t breathe to speak
Frozen in fire
Your guilt and your crime
Are there in your mime
Voiceless, your words
Lack heart and desire
So I shout down the well
To the cave where you dwell
But my echo gets lost
Amid your dark thoughts
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh)
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh)
What if the best is yet to come?
What if the best is yet to come?
Reject love, embrace hate
Blame the world, blame your fate
For a mistake you didn’t make
Your pain is oh so great
A martyr perhaps
But your countenance warns
Your halo grows heavy
Beneath all of those thorns
So I shout down the well
To the cave where you dwell
But my echo gets lost
Amid your dark thoughts
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh) (I won’t give up)
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh) (I won’t give up)
What if the best is yet to come?
What if the best is yet to come?
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh) (I won’t give up)
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh) (I won’t give up)
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh) (I won’t give up)
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh) (I won’t give up)
Don’t give up (Oooooh Oooh Oooooh) (I won’t give up)
What if the best is yet to come?
What if the best is yet to come?
4. This Time
Phone rings
The world stands still
A chill shoots through
Before I answer
My body knows it’s you
I pick up
You speak
My throat closes
My heart sinks
That familiar tale again
Again
This time I won’t be trapped
Get caught off guard or held back
Put my life on hold for you
Lose myself to get you through
This time I’ll walk away
My head held high
Let what’s broken die
Rise above, aim high
Aim high, aim high
Change my number
Pack my bags
Board the plane
With a smile on my face
A new life begins
Take my seat
Reclaim my space
Removing you
Rewriting me
True life begins
This time I won’t be trapped
Get caught off guard or held back
Put my life on hold for you
Lose myself to get you through
This time I’ll walk away
My head held high
Let what’s broken die
Rise above, aim high
Aim high, aim high
This time it will be different
This time it will be the last time
This time I won’t be trapped
Get caught off guard or held back
Put my life on hold for you
Lose myself to get you through
This time I’ll walk away
My head held high
Let what’s broken die
Rise above, aim high
Aim high, aim high
This time