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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...with so many musicians/performers passing recently, this song by Pink Floyd keeps revolving in my head:
Time
David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason
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
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
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells
...seems like everyone's getting older 'cept me. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...well, I looked in the mirror last night. I guess I'm not exempt after all. ...sigh... |
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Location: East Tennessee | None of us are.
The only thing I mind it getting a senior citizen discount before I ask for it. |
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Location: New York | Cool post Tim. Great lyrics. Made me think about my life for a minute.
Hossman |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Hoss, Check this performance:
Breathe-Time
...the song Time starts at about 3:00 minutes in.... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Ironic post considering Richard Wright is no longer with us. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | very. |
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Location: CA | More Floyd
"High Hopes" from Division Bell
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
Enecumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many time
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever |
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OT: Thoughts on recent passings....
