2008Released
3:34

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Interesting facts and trivia about 5 Years Time. By Songfacts®.

This glorious summer song about having fun being in the sun and enduring love was originally going to be part of a four-track EP. However according to songwriter Charlie Fink, when they took it to their record label, they said: "You should probably do more with this."

Laura Marling provides backing vocals on this track. The teenage singer-songwriter used to play with Noah and the Whale before striking out on her own. She also went out with Charlie Fink for a time and Noah and the Whale's second album, First Days Of Spring is a concept record based on Fink's relationship with Marling and his emotional meltdown after she broke it off.

This single was Noah and the Whale's commercial breakthrough. Fink told the Sunday Times July 6, 2008: "If someone had told me the potential was there for such things to happen with the song, I would have laughed. It seems completely absurd and terrifying. But I still love it, it still means what it meant to me when I wrote it." He then acknowledged that this song has, "the ability to produce joy in people who hear it."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of 5 Years Time.
CKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
122BPM

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EMI
© 2008 Mercury Records Limited
℗ 2008 Mercury Records Limited

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