Time Will Tell Lyrics – Poppy | from “Empty Hands”

Poppy’s Empty Hands is shaping up as her most unflinching mirror yet, dropping January 23, 2026 via Sumerian Records, and “Time Will Tell” is that slow-burn gut-punch reminding you some truths only surface when the clock runs out of mercy.

This track, slotted as number seven on the 13-song set, distills Poppy’s razor-wire introspection into a haunting alt-rock pulse: glitchy synths weaving through grungy guitars and her ethereal wail, like a nu-metal lullaby gone rogue. It’s her sweet spot—pop hooks laced with industrial edges, self-produced in LA haze with co-writes that nod to her heavier pivot post-Stagger. Thematically, it’s all about the long game of betrayal and breakthrough: peeling back facades in fractured bonds, where “time will tell” isn’t a threat, it’s a promise of clarity amid the wreckage. No bombast here; it’s intimate, almost confessional, flipping regret into quiet defiance, the kind that lingers like a bruise you learn to wear.

The album? It’s Poppy’s seventh swing at reinvention, a raw excavation of letting go—think “Public Domain” kicking off the chaos, “Bruised Sky” and “Guardian” (out December 4) already teasing the emotional gut-spills, right through to the title closer “Empty Hands.” Clocking around 45 minutes, it’s stacked with genre bends: from the shoegaze drift of “Unravel” (October drop) to the anthemic “Eat The Hate,” all wrapped in a concept of hollow victories and hard-won voids. Recorded amid her therapy-tinted ’25, it ditches the gimmicks for guitar-driven heart, proving she’s not just surviving the spotlight—she’s shattering it.

She’s hitting this era unbreakable, fresh off Negative Spaces’ 2024 chart siege and that feral Knotfest set where she crowd-surfed through her own mosh. The YouTube kid turned metal-pop oracle is 30 now, trading viral stunts for sonic surgery, tour dates looming for spring ’26 with sold-out previews in NYC already buzzing. Empty Hands feels like her exhale: bolder, bloodier, begging you to stare down the empty.

Dive into the Time Will Tell lyrics below and unpack its raw narrative. Don’t miss other Empty Hands tracks for more of Poppy’s unflinching alt-rock revelations.