Never give up, folks. Took me 39 years, countless wrong men, being a single parent & living a very isolated life to learn how to receive love as well as give. Now here we are, nearly 5 years strong but neither of us doubt that we both have found our person. Really does come when you're not even expecting.
Absolutely does. I had left my love life in God's hands and He rewarded me with the only man who would put up with me, grow spiritually with me, and love me for real - as best as a man can do. 💜☮️✝️✡️
The songwriting, production, vocals and melody on this song are at a different level. No wonder Bonnie won a Grammy for it. She even wrote the song alone, which is rare these days.
I’m sorry, but this is just ridiculously, brilliantly, breathtakingly, life changingly, lovingly, meaningfully, beautifully, purposefully PERFECT!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Bonnie sings this with genuine feelings. She was in her 40’s when she married, and sadly it didn’t last. I would say she didn’t find love in the nic of time… no kids and no husband, alone her whole life. The price for fame is much higher for women.
I got married at 43 and found my true soulmate. We have now been together almost 30 years.This song was my song back in the day when I met my husband.Great song----I consider it an anthem to those of us wait and wish and win.
As a kid I enjoyed this song but now it hits harder. I'll be 40 this April and I realize that I have just about as many yesterdays as tomorrows. Powerful song about time and love. 👌🏾❤
Get out there and enjoy as much as you can every day as precious as they seem for you today, they will be priceless to you in 25 more years as they are to me today Live every minute with peace on your heart and love like there’s no tomorrow
A song about our common fate. You can find love or not, but you WILL run out of time. Past 50, you can really feel the river sweep you along to your destiny, especially as your body starts breaking down.
One of the most perfect songs ever written. And nobody can do it quite like Bonnie Raitt herself. I had the great pleasure of witnessing exactly that when she came through London with her touring band about ten years ago. It was largely the same band that had recorded ‘Road Tested’ twenty five years prior to that (been with her ever since), which to my mind is one of the best live albums out there. The whole show was a masterpiece from beginning to end, plus her wonderful slide guitar and all the rest of it. But the biggest surprise of the evening, for me, was the sheer power of her voice. Maybe the people on the desk were messing with us but it seemed the sound engineers had to bring down her mic level urgently and substantially after the first few breaths. It just wasn’t normal. That’s a whole load of very tuneful SPLs you get at a Bonnie Raitt show!
"Nick of Time", is probably one of my top 3 favorite songs of all time. And lyrically, it's probably my #1 favorite song of all time. No other song has ever swelled emotion in me more consistently than this one. It rips my heart out and then heals it in less than 4 minutes. Outstanding song! I honestly wish many more people knew this song.
"Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste,". Thank you Bonnie Raitt, for the best relationship advice Ive ever had.My fave song of hers by far. Takes me back to wonderful time in my life.
Nick of Time is in my top ten albums for sure. It exploded into my life when I was 32 and head over heels with a young lady. It didn't last but was the best year of my life. It took me a while to realize she was Nobody's Girl, a song from this album that breaks my heart to this day, just hoping she found whatever it was she was looking for.
A real gem of a tune that you will not hear the likes of at all today sadly. Evocative and profoundly composed. An absolutely beautiful tune from yesteryear of 1989. Better times.
Top 10 favorite songs EVER! One of the BEST artists ever to have slung a song. Even more relevant these days knowing that time is running short for myself and seeing my parents and knowing I'm running out of time. Makes me more grateful and appreciative of EVERY. SINGLE. MOMENT. Thanks Bonnie
Apart from the wonderful sound and Bonnie Raitt's unmistakable voice, the background singers Arnold McCuller and Fred White also contributed to the fact that this song became a masterpiece and is still one of the best rock/pop pieces ever. Together with their amazing singing colleague Bridgette Bryant, they were already an acoustic and visual highlight at Phil Collins' legendary "Seriously" concert in 1990 at the Waldbühne Berlin
This song came on the radio when I was 22 and during the time I fell in love with my now-ex. I always thought he’d be the one to bring me a family and marriage and I always wondered why I was so scared to marry him or have kids with him..really it was his energy that didn’t want to be with a woman in a straight relationship. Feminine Women repulsed him. Just when I thought this song was for him at 22 and I was saved from being childless and single at 22 - with hopes of a bright future with him, he ended up taking those 7 years and I let him waste them on me. Now at 29 this song rings true more than ever regarding time and changing, and age, family, memories and parents. I’m glad I didn’t start a family with him even though I thought he had saved me from starting a family later in life, meeting him when I did. This song hit so deep and so emotional when I found it but really my soul knew my future was doomed with him still, and that the right one would come in the “nick of time” even if it was later. God’s timing is always perfect. Never late, never early.
I've loved this artist for a very long time. I thought I knew the meaning behind this song for decades. Just tonight I have heard the message. Thank you, Ms. Lady. Thank you for your contribution! You are a tower among others. I thank you so much for your contribution!
Gorgeous tune. The lyrcis still resonate as much in my mid-50s as they did in my early 20s, when this was released -- the fear of time running out when you're pusuing something. Hearing Bonnie's soothing, soulful vocal and that gentle groove, I feel like everything will be OK. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
An absolute classic! It knocked me out when I first heard it, and affects me in exactly the same way today. the combination of Bonnie's voice, that fantastic lyric and perfect music make this one of the finest songs ever recorded, IMO.
One of the great singer, songwriter, instrumentalists. Listening to this song is like wrapping yourself in a warm blanket on a cold winter night. Beautiful!
I was almost 50 when I married for the only time in 2006. 3 years later one of the girls I went to high school with decided she also would marry for her only time. I had been a blues singer for decades, so at her reception I have them this song. 😊✌💙
I first discovered Bonnie as a name in a book, my favourite author's central character is a P.I. with a love for blues music, Bonnie was named and as curious natured I found one of her CD's cheap, bought it
I heard this song playing tonight on satellite radio in a Sears store. Took me back to a wonderful time in m life in the 80s. Such great memories and a really perfect song.,
I love Sears. It would be effortless to find elegant clothes there that you couldn’t find anywhere else! It always will be the ‘most retro’ store to me too and so sad they went out of business in 2018.
Still remember that night watching the Grammys. It was definitely Bonnee’s night. For once the Academy got it right, and gave the awards to the right person who deserved it
This is a song that shows the complexity of life and some of its inevitable issues that come as you get older. Life gets more precious when it's less of it to waste.
"Life gets mighty precious, when there's less of it to waste." Most favorite line
wtf? there should be millions of people listening to this! it's one of greatest classics ever!
9 years on, this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Coooooool♥️
it's interesting to me. I dont hear her pop hits from the early 90s talked about. But she is so good. I can never find this album on vinyl.
I had this song stuck in my head 🗣️ this morning.
Feel good knowing you're not just one of the herd
Still listening in 2024
Till I die!
And it’s just a drop in the bucket. She is a fantastic talent
Yeah..... 😎
Found love in the nick of time…in 1983….
Classic song. I never get tired of listening to this.
Never give up, folks. Took me 39 years, countless wrong men, being a single parent & living a very isolated life to learn how to receive love as well as give. Now here we are, nearly 5 years strong but neither of us doubt that we both have found our person. Really does come when you're not even expecting.
Absolutely does. I had left my love life in God's hands and He rewarded me with the only man who would put up with me, grow spiritually with me, and love me for real - as best as a man can do. 💜☮️✝️✡️
❤❤❤
So glad for you all!! 💗💗💗
"Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste" - So powerful
Indeed!
Truth!
Always love that line
They don't write them like this anymore
Yup
Life in 4 minutes or less. That's how I describe this song.
"I see my folks getting on and watch their bodies chance, i know they see the same in me and it makes us both feel strange"...gets me everytime.
This song is a masterpiece. Bonnie is a great singer, songwriter, and player. Sings effortlessly with great feel, and tone.
The songwriting, production, vocals and melody on this song are at a different level. No wonder Bonnie won a Grammy for it. She even wrote the song alone, which is rare these days.
Rare these days? Did you sleep under a rock?
@@StillTheVoidAre you dumb or something? Look at most songs nowadays, most of them have several songwriters in collaboration.
Gotta sleep somewhere.
Rare even for Bonnie
@@thejimbruce Fair enough, compadre.
I have lived this song in many ways. I am an old lady now, Bonnie's age. Still loving life, listening to blues, jazz and bluegrass. Rock on.
ture words... I am an ol guy, thats the only difference...
I adore Bonnie. She never disappoints-- an irreplaceable musical treasure! Happy that I found her music four decades ago!
I’m sorry, but this is just ridiculously, brilliantly, breathtakingly, life changingly, lovingly, meaningfully, beautifully, purposefully PERFECT!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Been listening since late 1990's.
You all listening to musical gravy ❤
@@user-kn4cq1xx1s me too.i have always loved her. Nothing better.
Bonnie sings this with genuine feelings. She was in her 40’s when she married, and sadly it didn’t last. I would say she didn’t find love in the nic of time… no kids and no husband, alone her whole life. The price for fame is much higher for women.
You talk about rich deep lyrics..man I wish more people would listen to music like this and create more.
Bonnie Raitt is one of the most under rated singers. I love all her music and voice.💓
I got married at 43 and found my true soulmate.
We have now been together almost 30 years.This song was my song back in the day when I met my husband.Great song----I consider it an anthem to those of us wait and wish and win.
So beautiful....Thank you
Same for me at 40. I played this song and over over back then. It was worth the wait !!!
I was 32. And I wasn't looking. But, now I'm 47 & he's still beside me. Life surprises.
@@denise-d9v I am still waiting! You give me hope!
Yes.😅
One of the reasons why she won four Grammys in 1989.
Bonnie has been a superstar long before this album which, in 1989, finally gave her commercial recognition. The entire album is magic.
Amen! She's a true blues guitar player who can stand tall at her achievements. This is one powerful album for sure!❤
life gets mighty precious, when there's less of it to waste...hits home while turning 60! what a song! what an artist!
1. don't stop
2. keep going.
Who doesn't love Bonnie? Such a great heart felt story teller.
As a kid I enjoyed this song but now it hits harder. I'll be 40 this April and I realize that I have just about as many yesterdays as tomorrows. Powerful song about time and love. 👌🏾❤
Get out there and enjoy as much as you can every day as precious as they seem for you today, they will be priceless to you in 25 more years as they are to me today
Live every minute with peace on your heart and love like there’s no tomorrow
@@big-un9425 🙏🏾
Nicely stated.
I used to play this on the jukebox in a Michigan bar in 1991. Everybody would just sit down, listen, and drink their beer.
❤
Bonnie Raitt is one of the most underrated artists. So talented
Oh stfu! She's been around since the early 70's and has put out over 21 albums.
I'm here listening to this song in 2022! Hard to get used to the crap you hear on the radio these days. Still into the real music 🎶🎵❤
How sad you've allowed your mind to become narrow and calcified. There is great music today and it isn't difficult to find.
This song hits different in your mid 40s
And at 62!! ❤️
And when people asked why she won song of the year in 2023? It was her 15th Grammy and that is the only answer you need. 🎉
"Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste." -- I'm 83 years old, and that there ain't no bulls**t, brothers & sisters !!
A song about our common fate. You can find love or not, but you WILL run out of time. Past 50, you can really feel the river sweep you along to your destiny, especially as your body starts breaking down.
Very true
I’m 71 years old and single, no children. I don’t think there is a nick of time for me 😐
I’m 56, single my entire life. No children. I know how you feel.
One of the greatest songs of all time
Amen
ABSOLUTELY ✨
One of the most perfect songs ever written. And nobody can do it quite like Bonnie Raitt herself. I had the great pleasure of witnessing exactly that when she came through London with her touring band about ten years ago. It was largely the same band that had recorded ‘Road Tested’ twenty five years prior to that (been with her ever since), which to my mind is one of the best live albums out there. The whole show was a masterpiece from beginning to end, plus her wonderful slide guitar and all the rest of it. But the biggest surprise of the evening, for me, was the sheer power of her voice. Maybe the people on the desk were messing with us but it seemed the sound engineers had to bring down her mic level urgently and substantially after the first few breaths. It just wasn’t normal. That’s a whole load of very tuneful SPLs you get at a Bonnie Raitt show!
This is one of those classics, the lyrics are so true
Definitely. I love this song
Lyrics are so meaningful. I love the line "Life gets mighty precious, when there's less of it to waste".
Lived this song. Bonnie Raitt didn't get the recognition she deserved.
Forgot about her in the late 1960's, found her again just in the nick of time
"Nick of Time", is probably one of my top 3 favorite songs of all time. And lyrically, it's probably my #1 favorite song of all time. No other song has ever swelled emotion in me more consistently than this one. It rips my heart out and then heals it in less than 4 minutes. Outstanding song! I honestly wish many more people knew this song.
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I'm listening to it for the first time. Wow! Absolutely brilliant!!!
"rips my heart out and then heals it in less than 4 minutes". Perfect way to describe this great song.
Criminally Unrrated Icon!
Ms. Bonnie's Voice Is As Smooth As Silk!
At least 95% of the UK won't have heard of her
"Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste,". Thank you Bonnie Raitt, for the best relationship advice Ive ever had.My fave song of hers by far. Takes me back to wonderful time in my life.
This is one of those "feel good" kind of music....so so nice.
Makes me cry my eyes out. I love it but it doesn't make me feel good about myself or my elderly parents.
@@yardmanharris It's soul music- it's suppose to get to your heart.
Bless yourself and go down the Bonnie Raitt rabbit hole...every inch is pure gold
i didn't realize just how beautiful the lyrics to this song were/are. Thank you Bonnie Raitt for making them sound right.
Listening in 2023!!! Phenomenal singer, talent and voice. One of a kind!!
Congrats on the Grammy!
Love you ladies of the Blues!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
I'm sure we all could relate to some of the lyrics like: Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste
great song
'Scared to run out of time'!!!!
Now there's a thought!!!
Nick of Time is in my top ten albums for sure.
It exploded into my life when I was 32 and head over heels with a young lady.
It didn't last but was the best year of my life. It took me a while to realize she was Nobody's Girl, a song from this album that breaks my heart to this day, just hoping she found whatever it was she was looking for.
Beautiful song much appreciated and thoughtful
A real gem of a tune that you will not hear the likes of at all today sadly. Evocative and profoundly composed.
An absolutely beautiful tune from yesteryear of 1989. Better times.
Top 10 favorite songs EVER! One of the BEST artists ever to have slung a song. Even more relevant these days knowing that time is running short for myself and seeing my parents and knowing I'm running out of time. Makes me more grateful and appreciative of EVERY. SINGLE. MOMENT. Thanks Bonnie
This song deserves way more love !
Apart from the wonderful sound and Bonnie Raitt's unmistakable voice, the background singers Arnold McCuller and Fred White also contributed to the fact that this song became a masterpiece and is still one of the best rock/pop pieces ever. Together with their amazing singing colleague Bridgette Bryant, they were already an acoustic and visual highlight at Phil Collins' legendary "Seriously" concert in 1990 at the Waldbühne Berlin
The groove on this song is sooooo tiggggght. So addictive. For some reason the production/arrangement reminds me of Womack & Womack's Teardrops remix
oh my gosh i soooo agree!!
Don Was...Detroit baby
Yup .. Womack and Womack
You're not the only one!
Love this picture of real life
I also love the Bob Blom version
Grate tempo & beat 🎉
My favorite song from Raitt. Her voice and tempo are just.. magic.
One of our best classic singers!!!!
This song came on the radio when I was 22 and during the time I fell in love with my now-ex. I always thought he’d be the one to bring me a family and marriage and I always wondered why I was so scared to marry him or have kids with him..really it was his energy that didn’t want to be with a woman in a straight relationship. Feminine Women repulsed him. Just when I thought this song was for him at 22 and I was saved from being childless and single at 22 - with hopes of a bright future with him, he ended up taking those 7 years and I let him waste them on me. Now at 29 this song rings true more than ever regarding time and changing, and age, family, memories and parents. I’m glad I didn’t start a family with him even though I thought he had saved me from starting a family later in life, meeting him when I did. This song hit so deep and so emotional when I found it but really my soul knew my future was doomed with him still, and that the right one would come in the “nick of time” even if it was later. God’s timing is always perfect. Never late, never early.
🎶🎶🎶🕊
Did the right one come yet?
My favorite Bonnie Raitt song.
Beautifully written and sung.
Love You Bonnie Raitt!! YOU are a Blessing!! 🥰💫💖💫
A beautiful song from a beautiful lady.
I've loved this artist for a very long time. I thought I knew the meaning behind this song for decades. Just tonight I have heard the message. Thank you, Ms. Lady. Thank you for your contribution! You are a tower among others. I thank you so much for your contribution!
Singers could sing with SOUL back in the day. LOVELY TUNE!
Oh yeah plus she played piano and guitar
One of her best ever...so smooth.
Gorgeous tune. The lyrcis still resonate as much in my mid-50s as they did in my early 20s, when this was released -- the fear of time running out when you're pusuing something. Hearing Bonnie's soothing, soulful vocal and that gentle groove, I feel like everything will be OK. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
An absolute classic! It knocked me out when I first heard it, and affects me in exactly the same way today. the combination of Bonnie's voice, that fantastic lyric and perfect music make this one of the finest songs ever recorded, IMO.
She had some good ones
One of the great singer, songwriter, instrumentalists. Listening to this song is like wrapping yourself in a warm blanket on a cold winter night. Beautiful!
Still my favorite singer songwriter musicians!!!! Love her songwriting, she phenomenal!! This song always hits home!❤❤❤
June of 2023 and I'm still enjoying this real music masterpiece!!!
July 2023 now and here I am again. I will never tire of hearing this masterpiece. I swear it’s just on another level! Very special song indeed!!
Real music ❤
I was almost 50 when I married for the only time in 2006. 3 years later one of the girls I went to high school with decided she also would marry for her only time. I had been a blues singer for decades, so at her reception I have them this song. 😊✌💙
I first discovered Bonnie as a name in a book, my favourite author's central character is a P.I. with a love for blues music, Bonnie was named and as curious natured I found one of her CD's cheap, bought it
Incredible Song
Great song! She is amazing!❤ Someone needs to re-record some of these great songs.
I heard this song playing tonight on satellite radio in a Sears store. Took me back to a wonderful time in m life in the 80s. Such great memories and a really perfect song.,
I love Sears. It would be effortless to find elegant clothes there that you couldn’t find anywhere else! It always will be the ‘most retro’ store to me too and so sad they went out of business in 2018.
awesome music. the grammy people have saved their credibility by giving her nine
thnks vevo and youtube
Still remember that night watching the Grammys. It was definitely Bonnee’s night. For once the Academy got it right, and gave the awards to the right person who deserved it
....you came along and showed me I could leave it all behind......Thank you Marsha.....
TOOK ME OVER 10YRS TO FIND THIS DAMN SONG AGAIN LOVE IT
Such an insightful, deeply vulnerable, profoundly human song.
Heard this while shopping in Tesco this afternoon! ❤️ I can’t believe I’ve never heard it before 😔
I relate wanted a child so much. Ended up losing him because of my lifestyle. He grew up to be a fine man.
Forgive yourself
This is a song that shows the complexity of life and some of its inevitable issues that come as you get older. Life gets more precious when it's less of it to waste.
August 2024.....Timeless Bonnie, just like you gal ...❤
This song makes me cry. Each verse, beautiful. ❤️
Agreed, agreed, but a huge amount of respect has to go to this woman for the incredible music.
It seems no matter where I find myself on life's rocky road, Bonny has a song for me that fits like a comfortable shoe.
She will always give us something to talk about. Icon.
The greats dont always have the most views.... ❤❤
A beautifully crafted song. Bonnie’s vocals are excellent!
My favorite blues lady. Gorgeous. Love her..
I first heard this song around 1990 when Ryan White died of AIDS when he was 18.
That beat is timeless...NICK OF TIME.
I never got into this album of hers. Now Luck of the Draw was the one!
I love every single one of Bonnie’s songs ! What a true artist. Songs bring me back to simpler days .
Thank you 🙏 for this reminder! ❤
Angelic voice.Timeless music.
2023 still a tune 👌
Stirs my spine listening to her music.
Bonnie is so fabulous
Reminds me of my childhood. Dad had, maybe he still has this CD.
So glad I found this slightly different iteration. More closeups of Bonnie in this one!
Appeared in the movie ‘Always,’ perhaps my favorite one by her, simply perfect.
How good is this song xxx💖
ObSESSED with this song. Absolutely obsessed. I have to listen to it at least 5 times a day if I'm going to have a good day haha
It's really melancholy when you think about the lyrics.