My initial inspiration to write the song Times Run Out came as I stood looking out the window of my room at the Harbor Hotel in Boston. As the yellow-red sun rose out of the Atlantic Ocean, the choppy water in harbor caught and reflected the incandescent light and sent it reeling through the mist. Seagulls danced and dived just beyond the window where I stood; their loud, piercing calls filling my head.

Back home in Colorado there was a woman. I had blinded myself to how our relationship was going. I felt an aching desire to make it work along with a deepening anxiety over ending our relationship. These feelings took hold of my heart, while the thought of breaking up lurked at the back of my mind as I stood transfixed by that magnificent, primal sunrise.

I finally sat down at the desk beside my bed and starting writing lines of verse that combined what I had seen outside my window along with the raw feelings welling up inside me.

In that way, Times Runs Out began to be written.