Pink Floyd - Time (with lyrics)

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This song is based on the ideas of Roger Waters of time, that life is not to prepare for what is coming, but taking control of your destiny.
The song ends with Breathe (reprise), a summary of Breathe, with different lyrics.

Band: Pink Floyd
Album: The Dark Side of the Moon
Year: 1973
Genre: Progressive Rock
Track: 4

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[bloodsurf]

When I was 16 years old I would crank this song to max. Now I'm 53 and it makes me cry when I hear it. Life is what happens to you while you're waiting for life to happen

[crszitamarshall]

Sober, high, tripping, drunk, happy, sad, alone, with friends, day, night. Any time. Pink Floyd is the greatest.

[er]

"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one."
Confucius

[mcarrizales]

"And then one day you find, ten years have gone behind you. No one told you when to run, you'd missed the starting gun!"

Beautiful poetry that speaks to generations of people. Thank God for music.

[OrtonMusic]

When I am elderly I will listen to this song and instead of feeling saddened - which I do now, I will smile because I will have caught the sun.

[AuntCheezieMakesStuff]

"(Eargasm)" is the best closed caption I have ever read!

[IAmNumber]

I love Pink Floyd because their songs are deeper than the tune. The words actually mean something important while other people sing about clichés like love and money.

[jeanstankievicznatal]

"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" that part hit me so hard..

[jotadickinson]

I can't understand... I've already seen "best songs" lists with "Bohemian Rapsody" or "Stairway to heaven" or other fairy tales songs topping the list. But what about this one? Fantastic melody, wonderful intro and bridge and solos... lyrics written to make you wonder about the future, the real life, time wasting, ... a warning for young people, a lament for old people if they wasted their precious time... ... the real best song of last decades.

[MrTimothy]

"I spent an awful lot of my life — until I was about twenty-eight — waiting for my life to start. I though that at some point I would turn from a chrysalis into a butterfly, that my real life would begin. So if I had that bit of my life to live again, I would rather live the years between eighteen and twenty-eight knowing that that was it, that nothing was suddenly going to happen — that it was happening all the time. Time passes, and you are what you are, you do what you do."
~Roger Waters
["Rolling Stone" 16 Sep 82]

[mikeward]

"Sun is the same in a relative way but you're older" poetry at it's finest.

[PVSector]

i'm 26 and i'm a freaking nobody who haven't "seen the sun" yet - no job, no friends, never had a girlfriend, and no useful skills - basically, all my life i've stayed home and played videogames/watched crazy cats on the internets. this song made be burst into tears.

[beazersbaby]

Loved this song when I was love it still at 64

[florencewidejko]

Who is still listening to this bad ass band 2020

[ChristianAndrew.]

That solo will kick a hole in your soul every time.... absolute perfection and feel.

[JoyceDivisions]

Aren't these the most perfect lyrics in the most perfect song ever? This is by far my Pink Floyd favourite.

[jamespetersen]

the part where it goes from playing time to playing breathe is just phenomenal

[sksephy]

This album is a masterpiece... From the instruments to the lyrics, this will forever be one of the greatest albums to ever exist. Everything nowadays is computerized and the lyrics are about sex and money, but Pink Floyd made dark side personal and real (if that makes any sense).

[peytongretkie]

if only my generation appreciated this music, i think i wouldn't hate everybody quite so much.

[paulguzman]

“Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time”

These words speak to me more than ever. I read the comments of others, talking about their past and present and can’t help but wonder if I’m headed down a similar path. Thank you, Pink Floyd for creating something so much more than music. I hope they know the impact and influence they have made on all of us.