Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You 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.
So, this is the fourth track off of The Dark Side of the Moon. The song is the second longest on the album after "Us And Them." The clocks in the beginning were all recorded separately in a watchmaker's shop and were fused together to form the opening to the song, full of ticking and chiming. The song clearly comments on the passing of time. The first verse suggests that we're all wasting our time waiting for someone else to point us in the right direction. According to Vincent Amendolare, the second verse comments on the "futility of trying to outrun time." According to Roger Waters, "This idea in Time is a similar exhortation to Breathe. To be here now, this is it. Make the most of it." Therefore, although the song may sound depressing and negative, it is clear that Waters is implying that we must make the most of our lives.
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