Song Name: Time Out For Fun
Artist: DEVO
Appears On:
- oh, no! it's DEVO, this is the DEVO box (album version)
- "DEVO Muzak" - E-Z Listening Cassette Volume 2, E-Z Listening Disc (EZ version)
Run Time: 2:48 (album version)
Year Released: 1982
Years Performed: 1982 [1]
Writing Credits: Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald V. Casale
Sung By: Gerald V. Casale (lead)
- Mark lip syncs Gerry's lead vocals in the music video and sings TOFF with Gerry in concert.
Alternate Versions:
- Time Out For Fun (EZ) Run Time: 3:21
- Live version (Mark & Gerry vox)
Demo Versions: Time Out For Fun (demo)
- Officially unreleased.
- Appears on Booji Boy's Basement release D003.
Song Connections:
Trivia / Info:[]
- The backing vocals are electronically altered, as are the first two verses, sung by the lead vocalist.
- This was the opening song on the Oh, No! tour.
- In concert Mark sings the most of the lead verses with Gerry as backing vocalist. (see link below at "Live Video")
- "Time Out For Fun" appears on several Booji Boy's Basement releases, including D003, A019, and A090.
Onstage Behavior:
- Mark uses both hands to holds a stage microphone close to his mouth, something he does not do on other songs in the performance. Gerry also sings.
Lyrics:
- hello this is DEVO
- we would like to say things go both ways
- new ideas stupid moves
- nightmares or dreams come true
- mucho work minus play
- tension mounts in a twisted face
- dark clouds in the crystal ball
- tension mounts in a foreign place
- the screw turns someone calls
- time out for fun!
- time out for fun!
- time out for fun!
- time out for fun!
- so you're living under the gun
- circumstances have you on the run
- a doctor frowns you feel bad
- take this you've just been had
- don't you lose it now listen to us
- everything's going to be all right
- take a break take some time
- everything's going to be all right
- don't you lose it remember to take
- time out for fun!
- time out for fun!
- don't you lose it now listen to us
- everything's going to be all right
- take a break take some time
- everything's going to be all right
- don't you lose it remember to take
- time out for fun!
- time out for fun!
- time out for fun!
- time out for fun!
- so your life has just begun
- somebody else is saying that it's done
- nurses whisper others grin
- something's funny at your expense again
- don't you lose it now listen to us
- everything's going to be all right
- take a break take some time
- everything's going to be all right
- don't you lose it remember to take
- time out for fun!
- time out for fun!
Video:[]
- Appears on The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
- Mark lip syncs Gerry's lead vocals in the music video.
Live Video:
- A large-scale tour film was projected while DEVO performed this song onstage. It was a re-edited version of the "Time Out For Fun" music video with additional footage. YouTube
References:
External Links
- Time Out for Fun (work) -- MusicBrainz
- Time Out for Fun (overview) -- AllMusic
- Going Under, Time Out For Fun / Peek - A - Boo, That's Good (1984 WB Brasil EP) -- 45 cat