Only Time Will Tell (song)

"Only Time Will Tell"
Single by Asia
from the album Asia
B-side	"Ride Easy" (UK) "Time Again" (outside UK)
Released	1982
Format	7" single
Recorded	1981
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	4:48 (album version)
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Geoff Downes John Wetton
Producer(s)	Mike Stone
Asia singles chronology
"Here Comes the Feeling" (1982) "Only Time Will Tell" (1982) "Sole Survivor" (1982)

"Only Time Will Tell" is the third single (second in US) released by the progressive rock band Asia from their successful first album, Asia (1982).

The song was the band's second top 10 success on the US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, also reaching number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It peaked at #54 in the UK.

The song was used in the television series Cold Case third season episode "The River", the series Family Guy eighth season episode, "The Splendid Source" and in the 2015 videogame Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Track listing

US 7" Single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Only Time Will Tell"	4:05
2.	"Time Again"	4:45

UK 7" single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Only Time Will Tell"
2.	"Ride Easy"

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts Chart (1982) Peak position Canadian RPM Top Singles[1] 7 German Media Control Charts[2] 50 UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[3] 54 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 17 U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks[4] 8

Year-end charts Chart (1982) Rank Canadian RPM Top Singles[5] 69 U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[6] 109

References

1. "RPM". 25 September 1982. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
2. "Asia - Only Time Will Tell". Offizielle Deutsche Charts (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2012.
3. "Asia: Artist Chart History" Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
4. allmusic.com Retrieved 14 December 2009
5. "Top 100 singles of 82", RPM, Volume 37, No. 19, 25 December 1982. Retrieved 6 March 2016
6. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics