
The single has met with mostly positive reviews. About.com praised the song for being an excellent first single, calling it "possibly the best first post-American Idol single yet by an American Idol champion," and Entertainment Weekly called the song "a future smash hit." Yahoo! News' Billboard singles review described it as "impressive" and felt that Allen's version of the song "improves on the unreleased version with a nuanced vocal and a nimble, rhythmic delivery." The Seattle Times described the song as "a marked improvement over what some Idol winners have put out as their first post-show single".
The music video was directed by Marco Puig and was shot all night at a junkyard in the LA desert. Throughout the video, Allen is shown playing both an acoustic guitar and a piano, as well as singing without any instruments. Arkansas native described the video that "The idea behind it is that I plug in the clock and I'm pulling the big cord through the junkyard and through all these other things and then I plug in the clock and it starts counting down to zero and there's performance stuff in there. In the end when it hits zero, it's kind of like the song, it's like we only have so much time so we gotta do what we want to do. It was my first video, so I was really trying to have a great time."
I love Kris Allen! He was so good on American Idol. And I really like this song too!