Author Adam Roberts calls "Time" a "future-set rock opera". According to music journalist Mark Beaumont, it is a concept album about a man who is abducted forward in time to the year 2095, while the web publication Rockol and "Stereo Review" magazine both recognise "Time" as being about a man who becomes trapped in the future. "The News & Advance"s Ben Cates says it "tells the story of a man living in the year 2095 who glimpses enough of the future to know that he wants to get back to the 1980s".