I listened to this song when I was young, but now I finally “hear” it.
Why is it that the lessons of life are there for our learning, but we refuse to heed them?
Especially when we are young.
In our youth, we believe we know it all and will live forever. It’s a bit of youthful arrogance along with a does of immaturity.
In our youth we focus on the present. We are planning and preparing for the future but caught up in the now.
Life moves faster as we age
The older we get the faster life passes by.
It’s not that the days are longer or shorter. We know that is not the case. But our perception changes. Each day is a smaller part of your overall life as you age. It makes it feel like life is moving faster with each day.
Whether it is or isn’t is not the issue. The fact that it feels like it does should be enough!
Regardless, what you do with each is up to you.
Like an hourglass where our days are like sand, we get only so many days. We need to make each one the best it can be.
Before the hourglass empties.
Time. From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon Album (1973)
I remember listening to this song in high school. Headphones on. Volume up to ridiculous levels. I could even sing along with the lyrics.
But I never really “heard” the song until now. Now it makes sense.
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.
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.
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.
Listen to the official audio here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr0-7Ds79zo
Songwriters: David Jon Gilmour / Richard William Wright / Nicholas Berkeley Mason / George Roger Waters
Time lyrics © Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd, Pink Floyd Music Publishers LtdDevon Brough