Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
BREATHE REPRISE
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
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Review about Time Time | Reviewer: light my chemicals | 10/21/09
" And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking,Racing around to come up behind you again,The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older,Shorter of breath and one day closer to death "
what a great lyrics...this is all true...grab the opportunity it only comes once...you might regret in the end...carpe diem...thanks Pink Floyd for the lyrics.
"The sun is the same in a relative way but you are older" | Reviewer: Luky | 9/19/09
I agree with all of you, it is a great song. There are many moments in my life were i fill like i am just watching everything go by, and I keep waiting for an inspiration or a motive to start working on my goals, desires and dreams. "Time", really helps me understand how, in a way, we are racing against time but in a way, we know its an endless race were we must gain the most we can out of it.
Rehearsal | Reviewer: loononthegrass | 6/29/09
Again, great comments. Who said Floyd fans were a bunch of fry-heads? I recall a peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown said something to the effect that life wouldn't be so hard if he hadn't missed the rehearsal. This is the sentiment I feel from this song. So often I feel I don't know what I should be doing next, but life is music in motion; start writing before the song is over. (Hmmm...thought I'd something more to say...)
waiting for someone or something to show you the way | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/22/09
In the dark side of the moon documentary Roger Waters says something along the lines of,
we spend 18 years preparing for a life that has already begun
i think this song perfectly conveys that, life has already started, yeah it tends to be long but you are only getting older. do things now!
time | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/3/09
nowadays, everyone is going around saying "save up for retirement. prepare for the future." im not saying that's not a BAD thing, but this song says it all. sometimes you have to do things NOW!. because the only time you'll ever have is now. i dont view this song as scary or depressing. i view it as a a warning. it tells me to enjoy life, to do what i want, to stand out, to do as much as i can with the time given to me. because someday i will grow old, and i will die. but when my time comes, weather it be tomarrow or in seventy years, i know that i'm always going to run out of time to do the things i want. but at least i'll live free.
no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun | Reviewer: I never sleep | 1/27/09
This describes looking back on your life and realising that you were waiting for someone to signal you or 'show you the way'. In reality, no-one is going to direct you in life, it's up to us all to act out our hopes and ambitions.
Great comments here from people on this thread...
"spend your whole life preparing for the futur like its timeless then you will find out that your living your life right now"
i am quite pleased to see that my favorite song on the particular lyrics site i use actually has smart sensible comment. This song belongs to us because it was written about human beings b/c we are the one's concerned with time. I thank pink floyd so much for writing this song. there is no way to repay a band for something like this sort of song
"no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun | Reviewer: adam | 9/19/08
i dont know the writers specific meaning of this line, but it sticks to me as if you spend your whole life preparing for the futur like its timeless then you will find out that your living your life right now
time waits for nobody | Reviewer: lazutlivera | 9/18/08
this song starts as a hard, powerfull sound as youth and is getting slower when coming to the end.not only it's lyrics but also it's sound shows how life passes and how we come to end.so i think last part of the song depresses listeners.as freddie said "time waits for nobody"
Deep | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/10/08
What I love about this song is how relevant it is to everyone. I can relate to every single word in this song. It's about more than just wasting time. It's about the fact that time is indifferent to us. No matter what we do, it will never bend to our will, and we will never have enough of it. Consider the last line (before the reprise). Even the most meaningful things we do will be left unfinished in some way. And then we have the reprise. One man finds meaning in the little comforts life gives him. Others spend their precious time hoping for a world in which time does not exist. Very poetic, and timeless.
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