“Tragedy + Time” by Rise Against

Tim McIlrath took the title of "Tragedy + Time" from the maxim that tragedy plus time equals comedy, and Rise Against put it out in October 2014, the second single lifted off The Black Market, their seventh album, on Interscope. Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore produced and engineered it, Chris Lord-Alge mixed it, and McIlrath wrote the words to music credited to the whole band, with Joe Principe on bass and Brandon Barnes on drums.

Punknews.org pegged it as the poppiest song on the record but still heard it as sincere, and Alternative Press rated its chorus among the band's catchiest and most anthemic. Consequence of Sound found it overlong if catchy, and Sputnikmusic called it extraneous. It later became a playable track in Guitar Hero Live.

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