| Time to Waste | |
| Cover: | Alkaline Trio - Time to Waste cover.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Alkaline Trio |
| Album: | Crimson |
| Released: | May 24, 2005 |
| Recorded: | 2004–2005 at Conway Studios, Los Angeles |
| Genre: | Punk rock, pop-punk[1] |
| Label: | Vagrant |
| Producer: | Jerry Finn |
| Prev Title: | All on Black |
| Prev Year: | 2003 |
| Next Title: | Mercy Me |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
"Time to Waste" is a song by Chicago punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released as the first single from their 2005 album Crimson. "Time to Waste" was released to radio on May 24, 2005.[2] It peaked at #40 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, #32 on the UK Singles Chart, and #97 on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles.[3] [4] [5] It was backed with the B-side songs "We Can Never Break Up" and "Don't Say You Won't" from the album's recording sessions.
The song's music video, directed by Linkin Park's Joseph Hahn, depicts the band performing "Time to Waste" in a hangar to the accompaniment of lighting effects and background projection screens.[6]
The album's cover art, by Heather Hannoura, features a black-and-white picture version of an image from Book Three of Max Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonté.