"Wasting My Time" is a song recorded by Canadian rock band Default for their 2001 debut studio album, The Fallout. It was released as their debut single in September 2001. The song was written by the members of the band and produced by Chad Kroeger and Rick Parashar. "Wasting My Time" is Default's most commercially-successful song, having reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 8, 2002 and numbers 3 and 2, respectively, on the US Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock airplay charts, just behind Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". It was also their first of three singles to top the Canadian rock airplay chart.

"Wasting My Time" was written by Default (Dallas Smith, Jeremy Hora, Dave Benedict, and Danny Craig) and was produced by Chad Kroeger and Rick Parashar. The song is a power ballad that draws on influences of various rock genres and lasts for four minutes and twenty-nine seconds. According to the sheet music published by EMI Music Publishing, it is set in common time to a "moderate rock" tempo of 120 BPM. "Wasting My Time" was originally composed in the key of D major and follows a chord progression of D_sus9–G_sus9 in the verses and G₅–B₅–G₅–A₅ in the chorus. Smith's vocal range on the track spans one full octave, from A₄–A₅.

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