In A Nick of Time

No one addresses the topic of time better than Pink Floyd, and more directly, Roger Waters who wrote the lyrics to Time.

As I said in the beginning, my song list was based on a song's unique quality or a profound point-of-view concerning time. Pink Floyd's Time nails it like no other. Youth and aging. Hope and the hopelessnes of time. From a point-of-view of a single day to the vanishing of decades, and the search for meaning in it all. Time comments on each of these points but provides no answers. Ultimately it is up to the listener's interpretation to decide for him or her self.

(Drum roll please!) Here is #1 in my Time in Song countdown  - Time by Pink Floyd.

Time - Pink Floyd - Circa 1973


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.
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.


So 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.


Home
Home again
I like to be here
When I can


When I come home
Cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones
Beside the fire


Far away
Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell