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"'Right in Time'" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 1998 as the first single from her fifth album, 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' (1998).

The song was featured on the season one soundtrack album to the Showtime series 'The L Word'. Sarah McLachlan selected the track for inclusion on her 'Artist's Choice' compilation album in 2004.

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A review of the song from AllMusic stated; "Few artists could conjure a sense of yearning for an absent lover the way Lucinda Williams does in 'Right in Time', making physical the painful nature of unsatisfied and overwhelming longing, [the song] moves to a feeling of immediacy as the chorus enters, shifting the tone from longing, twangy guitars propelling the chorus--'The way you move, it's right in time/It's right in time with me.' The song then segues into the more intimate setting of Lucinda's private world, where time slows down to a stagger, 'I take off my watch and my earrings/My bracelets and everything/Lie on my back and moan at the ceiling...Think about you and that long ride/I bite my nails, I get weak inside/Reach over and turn off the light/Oh my baby' drawn out in such a low, aching moan that the return of the guitars and closing chorus is a palpable release.

'LA Weekly' ranked "Right in Time" at No. 8 on their list of Williams' best 11 songs, while music website Return of Rock ranked it No. 3 on their list. 'Pitchfork' wrote that the song includes some of her "most irreducible, eloquent poetry'Not a day goes by I dont think about you/You left your mark on me, its permanent, a tattoo'before becoming a moaned narrative of a woman alone in bed, pleasuring herself. It is unbelievably sensual, a daydream." 'NME' observed that the song is "rich in meaning, pulsing with the thrill of love remembered, and hurting with the chill of absence." In a five-star-out-of-five review of 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' for 'Rolling Stone', Robert Christgau observed "from the album's very first lines-in which the flat 'Not a day goes by I don't think about you' sets up the ambush of 'You left your mark on me, it's permanent [pause, we need a rhyme fast] a tattoo [gotcha!]', which is instantly trumped by 'Pierce the skin, the blood runs through' and then swoons into a forlorn, unutterably simple 'Oh my baby'-Williams's every picked-over word and effect has something to say.

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;CD single - UK

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;CD single - Europe

* Album Version - 4:35

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