"[1] News Record writer Rex Rutkoski said that the song "examines an America living on "Borrowed Time," wearing blinders to the possibility of its own decline.

"[3] Billboard said that it "rocks out harder" than the previous singles from the album, "Babe" and "Why Me", and that the "fiery lead vocal and matching guitar riffs spark the track.

"[4] Record World said that "Slashing guitars and raucous vocals ride a breakneck pace to the top of AOR-pop.

"[5] Sacramento Bee contributor Andy Sechor contrasted the song's "strident notes" with the "acoustic tenderness" of "Babe".

'"[10] Similarly, Newsday critic Wayne Robins compares these lyrics to Supertramp's "The Logical Song" but says that rather than "following this worthwhile admission through to some sensible conclusion" the band cops-out by concluding this verse with the line "I got to make a show.