Songfacts®:

• "Time Will Heal" is a song for everyone that's woken up feeling like they've fallen into a black hole. Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen wrote it while mourning his father's passing. The song is about holding on through hard times and remembering that better days will come. Loss is part of life, and Poulsen wants people to know that the emotional hardships are part of everyone's existence. Sometimes we need perspective and to remember where our personal tragedies fall in the big scheme of our lives.
• There's a silver lining in the song:
  
  Live for a reason
  The young ones will fly
  Joining their moment in time
  The wounds are still healing
  But that feels alright
  Even the night has a light
  
  With those lines, Poulsen was thinking about his children and children in general, how adults fight through hardship for them, and how they offer a hope and responsibility that can break us out of depression. All cheesiness aside, the children really are the future, and we can look to guiding them as a source of light in those times when our own lives don't make sense.
• With "Time Will Heal," Volbeat broke the record for most #1 songs from a band outside of North America on the Mainstream Rock songs chart, with 12. They extended the record with their next single, "Demonic Depression," which also topped that chart.
• The music video includes a lot of red imagery and shots of goats, which also appear on the cover of God of Angels Trust. Poulsen has frequently appeared wearing clothes with Satanic or occult meaning, so connections have been drawn between the goats and the infamous spiritual figure Baphomet. But Poulsen has directly addressed these questions and explained that he doesn't support any particular religious path, and the goat is meant to symbolize scapegoating – people putting blame and punishment for their own actions on others.
  
  That idea was very much on his mind as he contemplated the state of the world and how seemingly virtuous rules and regulations are put in place but then warped to benefit the rule-makers. Poulsen was aware of what people were likely to think and knows that its placement in the track list, coming just after "In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan's Spawn in a Dying World of Doom" (a title also meant to be humorous), is likely to spur further suspicion. It was all a gag to him.
• This was the third single released off Volbeat's ninth studio album, God Of Angels Trust. The band went into the studio looking to capture raw, visceral energy, so they attacked it like a live performance. The songs were written ahead of time, but the way they came together was improvisational and spontaneous. The energy is captured in the music.