BORN OUT OF TIME
(Words and Music by Rick Springfield)


I've seen all your movies, at least 3 or 4 times 
And have on my wall, a large picture of you 
And you were that pretty young star, so long ago 
I'm born out of time with you 
What can I do?
Maybe I'm silly to think we'd have made it 
But what I'd have given to at least had a try 
Oh take me back with you 1939, 
cause black and white movies 
are making me cry 
And born out of time, we slipped hopelessly by

Sophia Loren, Bridgett Bardot, Jean Harlowe, Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Deitrich. 
But Greta, you're better than any I've seen 
Yes, you were a real beauty queen

Oh listen people, has it happened to you yet 
The feeling that someone was born out of time 
You love someone, physically much too young for you 
Either way, it's a shame, time was so cruel 
But it's nice that that, generally, isn't the rule

Sophia Loren, Bridgett Bardot, Jean Harlowe, Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Deitrich. 
But Greta, you're better than any I've seen 
Yes, you were a real beauty queen

And Clark Gable's who I should have been

(total playing time: 3:45)

This song appears on  Comic Book Heroes.

According to US

Oh, if there were ever a song that *I* could have written about Rick, it would be this one. "I've seen all your movies, at least 3 or 4 times" or 10 or 20...smirk. "And have on my wall a large picture of you" or 2 or 30, or at one time too many to count...

I'm taking you back to my teenage bedroom, once again. That place that I discovered that I was honestly and truly smitten with Rick Springfield for life. The first time I heard this song, I'm sitting on the floor in my room with headphones on. Looking at the pictures in the CBH album. I'm a little perplexed by the movie snippet at the beginning (and honestly I still don't know why it's there) but the sound is intriguing. That breathless voice comes into my head, and I've fallen in love all over again. By the time the chorus has passed and Rick is singing, "Oh listen people, has it happened to you yet...the feeling that someone was born out of time...YOU LOVE SOMEONE PHYSICALLY MUCH TOO YOUNG FOR YOU" I'm jumping up and down and singing halleigh-lou-yahs all over the place over the music in my head, because my God, he understands!! I have a chance! I'm going to Hollywood! Tomorrow! I'm gonna find me that Rick Springfield and marry him, because he has just told me here in this song that it could be possible. Hey, he's only 20 years older than me, and heck I can live with that....

It took me many listens thru to come down off that high. Every time I listen to this song, even today - I think back and chuckle on those thoughts. This song is so classic in that it explains exactly how "The Fan" feels. This song has true feelings and emotions in it that you can reach out and pluck while you listen. I love how he pleads for just one try into 1939, as if wishing hard enough it would come true. He's even willing to trade off his life for Clark Gable's. I know I've done my share of wishing I could trade places with a certain blonde. Every time I see or hear or read an interview with Rick and he mentions about the crush he had on Hayley Mills and how he sent her a letter, it makes me think of this song - even though she's not mentioned in it. This song so humanizes Rick, it amazes me. I love the fact that he's said it's one of his favorites, and I had already deemed it one of mine before I had heard him express that thought. Before I heard this song, I knew I could relate to things Rick was singing about, but never has one touched me so much from all that he has written until this one. With Rick's other songs, I was always getting the message that I could get though anything that I found difficult to experience. It was almost as if Rick was telling me he was going to be there for me. He always was, through his music. With this song it's as if Rick let me peek into his soul a bit, and see something he was longing for. I don't know why I feel the need to gush about this song so, but there is just something about it that does "It" for me. Back in those days I was a teen and spending a lot of time in my room, I'd play this song over and over and over again...

I would beg, borrow, steal or kill someone to hear Rick do this song live. Ok maybe not kill, but certainly maim...Michelle P.