STILL
IN TIME

A song about looking back at the dreams we left behind and asking whether we are still in time to do something big.

Still in Time came directly from returning to music after fourteen years.

It also came from an idea that has stayed with us since we started Resonance: we are still in time to do something big, ambitious, and meaningful, even if we are over thirty, followed other careers, and spent a long time doing something completely different.

The song starts from a more frustrated place. It feels like sitting outside the world and watching people walk to work, repeat the same routine, and leave their dreams behind along the way.

And the strangest part is that, from the outside, everybody seems alright.

When routine starts to look normal

The first verse watches a society full of "zombies" walking to work. We are not making fun of people or saying every office job is pointless. The question is different: when did we accept that being exhausted, stressed, and disconnected from what we want to do was simply normal?

Spending hours in traffic to get to a job you could probably do from home. Coming back tired every day. Neglecting your physical and mental health. Earning a salary that barely supports the life that leaves you with no energy.

Are you really okay with spending years like that?

When did your dreams become childish? When did being a musician, painter, astronaut, or professional NASCAR driver become an innocent idea you were supposed to leave behind?

And honestly, why could you not do it?

There is not always an easy answer. Real responsibilities exist. Bills have to be paid, and people depend on us. But it is also easy to use all of that to convince ourselves that trying is no longer worth it.

The light that slowly fades

When we are children, dreaming big feels completely normal. We do not spend as much time asking whether we have permission, experience, or guarantees. We imagine what we could become and assume the possibility is still there.

Then adulthood arrives. Responsibilities, work, exhaustion, and the idea that reality only works one way start to take over. Little by little, that ambitious, hopeful light begins to fade.

Dreams do not always disappear all at once. Sometimes they just get buried under years of practical decisions.

That is what we wanted to capture in Still in Time: the feeling of looking back and wondering when we stopped believing we could do something different.

Trading magic for a dime

One of the song's central images is trading magic for a dime.

To us, that magic is the creativity, imagination, and ambition that all of us have in some form. It is not limited to people who make music, art, or films. Creating can also mean solving problems, developing technology, making discoveries, building a company, or finding a solution that helps someone else.

There are many ways to use that ability.

The problem starts when we trade all of it for a life that looks responsible, safe, and predictable, but leaves no room to imagine. The week becomes work. The weekend is for recovering. Then Monday comes back around and the cycle starts again.

Another day disappears.

"Are we still in time?"

The chorus asks the question that gives the song and the album their name:

"Are we still in time?"

We did not want to answer it with comfortable certainty. It is not about repeating that everything will work out no matter what we do. The question demands a decision.

Are we still in time? Yes, but we also have to act as if the answer depends on us.

The second verse starts moving the song toward that answer. Something is not okay. We feel nostalgic, as if we have already reached the end of something we never wanted to finish. But it does not have to be this way.

We can still see. We can still be. We can still remember what we have inside us and bring it back to life.

The ending says it with more confidence:

"We will remember, we have it in us."

From there comes the answer we wanted to leave with whoever is listening:

"You are still in time."

The awakening, the leap, and the work

Still in Time, Take a Leap, and The Sculptor share the same concern: personal growth, ambition, and the possibility of reclaiming a more intentional life.

Still in Time is the awakening. It is looking at the routine, feeling that something is wrong, and asking the question.

Take a Leap is deciding that it is worth trying. It is stopping the postponement and taking the leap toward something you really want to do.

The Sculptor is the process that comes after. It is working on yourself, building skills, and putting in the effort to become someone who can sustain that leap.

These are three different perspectives on the same idea. We can still do something with what we have. We can still try again with the things we left behind.

The album title

The album title came from that question.

When we started working on Resonance, we had no guarantee that it would lead anywhere. Fourteen years had passed since we made music together. We had all taken different paths and had our own responsibilities.

Still, we decided to start again.

Building a complete first album, with songs that represent us and meet the quality standard we set for ourselves, is our own kind of answer to the question. It is our way of showing that you can still build something ambitious after thirty.

That does not guarantee success. It does show that age, on its own, was not a good enough reason not to try.

How the song came together

Felipe wrote Still in Time and already had much of the chorus melody worked out.

Pedro wrote the verses, and then we adjusted the chorus together with the rest of the band. We worked on the interlude as a group, while Felipe and Pablo develop the solos together, as they usually do with Resonance.

Our demos usually start with an initial drum part made by Pablo or Felipe. Then we send the drumless versions to Josi, who builds fast, creative, dynamic drum parts that often take the song to another level.

Josi mainly listens to All That Remains, Killswitch Engage, Bullet for My Valentine, and Avenged Sevenfold. He also plays in Owari with Felipe and Wino, so he brings a technique and complexity rooted in heavier metal to our alternative rock songs.

That contrast is part of what ends up shaping the Resonance sound.

A central song for Resonance

Still in Time is the sixth song on the album and gives the record its name. In the tracklist, it comes after The Sculptor and before Snapped.

It also sits near the center of the album because it sums up one of the ideas we care most about exploring. Pedro, our vocalist, is the one who reads the most about stoicism and personal development, but Felipe connects with these subjects a lot too.

We do not hear much music that speaks directly about ambition, personal growth, and the decision not to settle. Many songs are about love, heartbreak, or mental health, and those experiences matter. We also wanted to write about what happens when someone decides to recover their dreams and build something with them.

We do not know where Resonance will take us. But making this album was already a way to stop watching the possibility from a distance and start finding out for ourselves.

Two children in a puddle

The previous cover showed a child walking toward a shooting star, surrounded by corporate zombies dressed in black.

The image was about someone still moving toward their dreams while everyone else seemed to be following an automatic direction.

The current cover tells the same idea in a more intimate way. It shows two children's shoes in a puddle. In the reflection, those same shoes appear beside an adult's legs.

The child and the adult are there at the same time.

For us, the image connects with the line we will remember, we have it in us. The adult did not completely leave that dreaming child behind. Some part of them is still there. Maybe we just had to look for it again.

Listen to Still in Time

You can listen to Still in Time while reading the story behind the song.

Listen to *Still in Time* on Spotify

We also have a visualizer and a lyric video on YouTube. Both need to be renewed and uploaded again using the new cover.

Watch the lyric video on YouTube

The technical story behind the composition, production, drums, and the work of Felipe, Pablo, and Josi can be expanded later in a companion article by Felipe for Vendaval Estudios.