Time Lyrics

[Part I: Time]

[Intro]
The voice had been there all along
Hidden in the stones in the rivers
Hidden in the books
Hidden in plain sight
It was the voice of reason

[Verse 1]
Ticking away at 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 hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

[Chorus 1]
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 havе got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missеd the starting gun

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus 2]
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

[Part II: Breathe (In The Air) [Reprise]]

[Verse]
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

[Outro]
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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Genius Annotation

“Time” is fourth track on Roger Waters “Redux” of 1973’s progressive rock album Dark Side of the Moon. The song’s lyrics (sung by Waters) remain largely the same to the original 1973 version. Originally, the track began with a chorus of ringing clocks. On the redux version this is replaced with a short spoken word section. Gilmour’s original guitar solo is replaced with an electric organ and modulated slide guitar.

Speaking to the meaning of the song, Waters says “I had been under the misapprehension that, yes my life had started you know I’d heard mother’s heartbeat, I’d been born, I’d breathed in the air and whatever but I thought that I was preparing for something that was going to start later. Oh you must study hardy at school so you have to go to university, you have to get your A Levels, you got to do this and that cuz you’re preparing for something and suddenly there I was and I thought [ f__ ] me it’s this is it I’m not preparing for anything I’m living it.”

The song ends with a reprise of “Breathe”. Describing a cynical reading of organized religions promising things in the afterlife.