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Song by David Bowie

"Time Will Crawl" is a song recorded by the English singer David Bowie, serving as the second single for his seventeenth album, Never Let Me Down (1987). It was written by Bowie and produced by him and David Richards. Released in 1987 by EMI, the recording addresses the destruction of the planet by pollution and industry; the Chernobyl disaster was a direct influence on the lyrics. The accompanying video served as a teaser to Bowie's Glass Spider Tour (1987). Music critics reviewed "Time Will Crawl" positively, commending its lyrics and production, and describing it one of Bowie's best efforts of the mid– to late–1980s. Additionally, Bowie later called the song one of his favorites from his entire career. Commercially, the single peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart and at number seven on Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

"Time Will Crawl" was written and recorded by Bowie in mid– to late–1986 at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. He produced the recording alongside David Richards. Initially the track was titled "How We War", but Bowie changed the name prior to the album's release. Lyrically, the song addresses the pollution and destruction of the planet by industry. Bowie has cited hearing of the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 as the genesis of the lyrics, and was in Switzerland at the time of the accident. He said, "I was taking a break from recording [ ] it was a beautiful day and we were outside on a small piece of lawn facing the Alps and the lake. Our engineer, who had been listening to the radio, shot out of the studio and shouted: 'There's a whole lot of shit going down in Russia.' The Swiss news had picked up a Norwegian radio station that was screaming – to anyone who would listen – that huge billowing clouds were moving over from the Motherland and they weren't rain clouds." At the time, he also stated that it was his favorite song from the album. a project that came to fruition after Bowie's death with the release of Never Let Me Down 2018 in the Loving The Alien (1983 1988) (2018) box set. According to McNulty, Bowie had specific ideas of what he wanted to do to the song for the remix, calling his willingness to make such drastic changes to the song "fearless." McNulty said when they met to discuss the remix, Bowie was "sitting on his living room floor with a laptop, taking notes, just hanging out, [and said] 'I wanna do this to this, get rid of this, I wanna put drums on this, I wanna put string on this, all right when can we do it?'" "Time Will Crawl" was added to the Les Amants du Pont Neuf soundtrack (1991), Bowie – The Video Collection (1993), Best of Bowie (2002), The Platinum Collection (2006), and The Best of David Bowie 1980–1987 (2007), while the 2008 remixed version appeared on iSelect (2008) and Nothing Has Changed (2014). An updated version of the 2008 "MM Remix", as well as remixes of the original single and its b side "Girls" appear in the box set Loving the Alien (1983 1988). That same year, Bowie also made an appearance during BBC's "Top of the Pops", but his performance was ultimately not aired on television due to the song leaving the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart at that time. However, his performance was later uploaded onto YouTube. Bowie biographer Nicholas Pegg praised both the track's production and lyrical content, saying, "the lyric, too, is among the album's best, a pleasing return to a non linear approach that paints a desolate landscape of poisoned rivers, nuclear devastation and genetic mutation reminiscent of Diamond Dogs." In a 2016 list ranking every Bowie single from worst to best, Ultimate Classic Rock placed "Time Will Crawl" at number 74, calling it one of the better tracks on Never Let Me Down, but "there's not a whole lot there to salvage the project".