Time Lyrics - In The Flesh - Roger Waters

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 

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 

And racing around to come up behind you again 

And 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 nought 

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 

And when I come home cold and tired 

It's good to warm my bones beside the fire 

Far away, across the field 

The tolling of the iron bell 

Calls the faithful to their knees 

To hear the softly spoken magic spell