Recording Artist: "Pink Floyd"
Written By: Roger Waters
Album: "Dark Side Of The Moon" - 1973
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Lyrics: Scroll down to read |
Our explanation: This song is very reminiscent of the lives of some people I (and probably you) know. The singer repeatedly finds himself upset that he is wasting his days just sitting around at home, doing nothing. Time is passing him by, he is not achieving anything in life, and he just wants something big in life. He laments some more about it, then in the last verse we see something different. He seems to appreciate the home that he has perhaps taken for granted. The last 4 lines refer to a church. Whether it is a positive or negative connotation is a mystery.
"Time" lyrics:
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand 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
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
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the 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
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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