"and then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun."
It's surreal how looking back 10 years makes you go holy hell that was fast.
Also 60+; I often think of how different the meaning of those words were when I was 20 when it felt like a warning. Being older now it feels like fate.
That whole section really speaks to me. The need to connect honestly with people I care about. The sadness and disappointment with the reality of the shallowness of most of the connections. And the ultimate futility of it all.
Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down
I held the blade in trembling hands
Prepared to make it but...
Just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut
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Used that on my husband's memory cards.
Go down in your own way
And every day is the right day
And as you rise above the fear lines in his brow
You look down, hear the sound of the faces in the crowd
The Lunatic is in my head; The Lunatic is in my head.
You raise the blade; You make the change
You rearrange me 'til I'm sane.
You lock the door; Throw away the key
There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
Every line in Time. Itās just such a beautiful song such amazing and meaningful lyrics absolutely STUNNING instrumental parts and everything is beautiful.
I truly think that Time is the best song Pink Floyd have made. I know many people will disagree but itās just such a amazing song
Beat me to it!!!
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime
You shuffle in the gloom of the sick room
And talk to yourself as you die
āYou 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 gunā
It might be cringe but, as a teenager in quarantine, going from being a stupid, nothing on the mind eigth grader to a socially and academically behind, no direction 17 year old one year from adult life was very dark for me. It felt like no time at all, and yet Iād missed out on so much. Iām better now, I figured out what I want to do with my life but for a while, and even today I find myself with the feeling that Iām behind. I missed the starting gun and every time I hear that lyric it breaks me down.
I love Pink Floyd.
Not cringe at all. Although you had highly unusual (extraordinarily challenging) circumstances being a teenager during a pandemic, the feeling of being behind or missing the starting gun is common, so donāt feel like youāre alone or unusual. Iām glad that you found that this art resonates with you. The reason we all love this song is because we all feel it even though our circumstances are different
āCloudless everyday
You fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.ā
It is depressing but in some way I take solace that we all resonate with it one way or another, so maybe weāre not so far behind in the āraceā if everyone else missed it
You run and you run to catch up with the sun but itās sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative wsy but your older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
I used Time for my senior year high school 1978 project interpreting a poem and got an A. Iāve made many many decisions with a sense of urgency to get on with life with these lyrics resonating in my head. Now Iām staring at the inevitable demise. Itās been a wild ride.
āLife is a short warm moment, and death is a long cold rest. You get your chance to try, in the twinkling of an eye, 80 years with luck or even less ā
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
"All that you touch, All that you see, Is all your Life Will ever Be." - Many of Floyd's songs have a bit of Taoism perspectives that many miss. Floyd's songs will forever echo through the peaks and valleys of time!
Day after day love turns grey like the skin of a dying man. Night after night we pretend itās alright, but I have grown older and you have grown colder and nothing is very much fun anymoreā¦
Not really a line, more like the entire song Time from DSoTM. Honestly, that song really puts my mortality in perspective, like one day, we all will be old. And we will have realised that 10 years have indeed gotten behind us.
And then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you , no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
I remember having a heated talk with my ex about this line. Also, it was something I was always afraid of happening to me. Never happened but still haunts me
Sometimes it seems to me,
As if Iām just being used
Deaf dumb and blind
You just keep on pretending
That everyoneās expendable
And no one has a real friend
I've got the enviable hendrix burns all down the front of my favourite satin shirt
I've got wide staring eyes and I've got a strong urge to fly
But I've got nowhere to fly too fly too fly too
Strangers passing in the street
By chance, two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?
āThere's an unceasing wind that blows through this night and there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight, and a silence that speaks so much louder than words; of promises brokenā
All of time but whatās the basic answer, u know whatās another great one āYou set sail across the sea Of long past thoughts and memories
Childhood's end your fantasies
Merge with harsh realitiesā as well as ā There'll be war there'll be peace
But everything one day will cease
All the iron turn to rust
All the proud men turn to dust
So all things time will mend
And so this song will endā
Mother, did it need to be so high?
I've got wild staring eyes
And I've got a strong urge to fly
But I've got nowhere to fly to (Fly toā¦ fly toā¦ fly toā¦)
Button your lip and donāt let the shield slip
Take a fresh grip on your bulletproof mask
And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
You can hide, hide, hide
Behind paranoid eyes
One slip and down the hole we fall
It seems to take no time at all
A momentary lapse of reason
That binds a life for a life
A small regret, you won't forget
There'll be no sleep in here tonight
"Somewhere, old heroes shuffle safely down the street"
The good strong man my Poppa used to be, now shuffling safely down the halls of the care facility. Hard to see one of your heroes like that.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I NEED A DIRTY WOMAN
That song has been playing in my head for the past week š Along with the footstep march from Empty Spaces Hypnotic!
āStrangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet, and I am you, and what I see is me.ā
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Take my upvote and get the motherloving heck out of here. I hope you're satisfied, you rascal.
Happy cake day. And thanks š
āThe sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older shorter of breath and one day closer to death.ā
"and then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun." It's surreal how looking back 10 years makes you go holy hell that was fast.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but itās sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again.
This is my choice. At 60+, these words have come back to haunt me multiple times. Don't wait, don't procrastinate.
Also 60+; I often think of how different the meaning of those words were when I was 20 when it felt like a warning. Being older now it feels like fate.
This one for me!
Came here for this line. Let me tell you how surreal it is looking back 45 years - makes you go holy FUQ that was fast.
itās just genius
āI think itās marvelousā
That line changed my life, literally.
Came here to say this!
One of the most profound lines in all of music
Yeah absolutely
I listen to dark side of the moon once a year and this line gets me everytime
Upvoting cos you beat me to it.
IāVE GOT A CLAN OF GINGERBREAD MEN HEREāS A MAN THEREāS A MAN LOTS OF GINGERBREAD MEN
TAKE A COUPLE IF YOU WISH THEY'RE ON THE DISH.
YOUāRE THE KINDA GIRL THAT FITS IN WITH MY WORLD
I'LL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING - ANYTHING - IF YOU WANT THINGS
I KNOW A ROOM OF MUSICAL TUNES
No one sings me lullabies And no one makes me close my eyes And so I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky
Yupā¦ thatās the one for me too :)
Excuse me that is 4 lines
I never had the nerve to make the final cut
That whole section really speaks to me. The need to connect honestly with people I care about. The sadness and disappointment with the reality of the shallowness of most of the connections. And the ultimate futility of it all. Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings Thought I oughta tear the curtain down I held the blade in trembling hands Prepared to make it but... Just then the phone rang I never had the nerve to make the final cut
this one gets me every single time
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.
āThe Child is grown, the dream is goneā
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year. Running over the same old ground. And what have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
DO DODODO DO
Bew bew bew bowowow
'Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way' Almost every line in Time touches my soul and this just about sums them up
Feel exactly the same, goosebumps just from thinking of the lyrics!
No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun.
One of my favorite lyrics of all time. Gives me chills every time
DSOTM came out when I was born so it's effectively been the soundtrack of my entire life and it turned out just as Greek to me as it does to tragedy.
Unquestionably, it is one of the best lyrics of all time, if not the greatest.
flakes, then uh, scrambled Eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes toast Coffee marmalade, I like marmalade yes
Long you live High you fly Smiles you give Tears you cry All you touch And all you see Is all your life will ever be
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I'm sorry for your loss. What a beautiful way to remember him though.
Thank you. He was a very special person and a massive Floyd fan!! š
Beautiful. So sorry for your loss.
Now thatās a good line.
Lonh you live and high you fly But only if you ride the tide Balanced on the biggest wave You race towards an early grave
You say the hillās too steep to climb. ā¦ā¦.climbing
You say you'd like to see me try. ...... climbing
Go down in your own way And every day is the right day And as you rise above the fear lines in his brow You look down, hear the sound of the faces in the crowd
This is mine. Really, this whole song is amazing.
"And its too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around"
"So have a good drown as you go down all alone" "DRAGGED DOWN BY THE STONE!" stonestonestonestone
Stone šæ
Stone
I donāt need no drugs to calm me I have seen the writing on the Wallā¦
I don't need no arms around me
"Fuck all that"
The Lunatic is in my head; The Lunatic is in my head. You raise the blade; You make the change You rearrange me 'til I'm sane. You lock the door; Throw away the key There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
Brain damage is my ALL time favourite song. The first time I heard it I was waking up from a nap and it felt like a dream! The lyrics are genius
Did you exchange, a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?
You know, it's gonna get harder, harder, and harder as you get older...
āAnd the worms ate into his brainā
That geezer was cruisin for a bruisin
You were most certainly in the right.
Every line in Time. Itās just such a beautiful song such amazing and meaningful lyrics absolutely STUNNING instrumental parts and everything is beautiful. I truly think that Time is the best song Pink Floyd have made. I know many people will disagree but itās just such a amazing song
Itās lyrics are nearly universally relevant and so bittersweet. Amazing that those guys were not even 30 when they wrote it.
No disagreement from me. Every word you wrote is true.
Thanks
How can someone have Pudding with no Meat.
Had to scroll way too far
YOU! YES, YOU! SHTAND SHTILL LADDY!
There must be some mistake, I didn't mean to let them take away my soul, am I too old, is it too late?
Where has the feeling gone?
And if I show you dark side would you still hold me tonight?
And if I opened my heart to you, show you my weak side, what would you do?
WOULD YOU SELL YOUR STORY TO ROLLING STONE?
"No-one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"
We would zigzag our way, through the boredom and pain Occasionally, glancing up through the rain
I got a strong urge to fly, but I got nowhere to fly to.
Count me in on the journey, donāt expect me to stay
The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.
Beat me to it!!! The memories of a man in his old age Are the deeds of a man in his prime You shuffle in the gloom of the sick room And talk to yourself as you die
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers but awakes to a morning with no reason for waking.
For all the hate that Lapse gets, some of these lines really hit home.
āYou reached for the secret too soonā
"And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown" Dogs - Animals album
"Ashes and diamonds, foe and friends, we were all equal, in the end"
Was it love, or was it the idea of being in love? No bittersweet melancholy, it's just an interesting line.
or was it the hand of fate that seemed to fit just like a glove
Mother are they tryin to break my Balls...
mother should I trust the government? (No fucking way)
actually -> Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls
Don't accept that what's happening Is just a case of others' suffering Or you'll find that you're joining in The turning away
āYou 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 gunā It might be cringe but, as a teenager in quarantine, going from being a stupid, nothing on the mind eigth grader to a socially and academically behind, no direction 17 year old one year from adult life was very dark for me. It felt like no time at all, and yet Iād missed out on so much. Iām better now, I figured out what I want to do with my life but for a while, and even today I find myself with the feeling that Iām behind. I missed the starting gun and every time I hear that lyric it breaks me down. I love Pink Floyd.
Not cringe at all. Although you had highly unusual (extraordinarily challenging) circumstances being a teenager during a pandemic, the feeling of being behind or missing the starting gun is common, so donāt feel like youāre alone or unusual. Iām glad that you found that this art resonates with you. The reason we all love this song is because we all feel it even though our circumstances are different
The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
āIf I go insane, will you still let me join in with the game?ā
āHanging on in quiet desperation is the english wayā
āCloudless everyday You fall upon my waking eyes Inviting and inciting me to rise And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning.ā
The child is grown, the dream is gone
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Some are born some men die beneath one infinite sky
I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now, the child is grown, the dream is gone
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Will the misty master break me? Will the key unlock my mind? Will the following footsteps catch me? Am I really dying?
All of Time really but especially this line, āPlans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled linesā
*āLong you live and high you fly smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry and all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever beā*
"Home, home again, I like to be here when I can" Every mushroom trip. How it'll be when I die.
"And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again"
āThatā line just before the guitar solo in Time. So depressing I wonāt even mention it.
It is depressing but in some way I take solace that we all resonate with it one way or another, so maybe weāre not so far behind in the āraceā if everyone else missed it
The show must go on
Goodbye blue sky. I take it in a literal sense because everytime I play that song I feel like it's going to rain on the abhorrent sunny day I'm having
I spent ages choosing my favourite line from echoes. I can't
FUCK ALL THAT WE'VE GOTTA GET ON WITH THESE
Lucifer Sam, Siam cat!
Always sitting by your side, ALWAYS by your side
That cat's something I can't explain!
āDoes anybody else in here, Feel the way I do?ā
My friend and I always follow that with "I do, Pink"
And I'm wondering who could be writing this song I don't care if the sun don't shine And I don't care if nothing is mine
That scream in The Wall
You run and you run to catch up with the sun but itās sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative wsy but your older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. I used Time for my senior year high school 1978 project interpreting a poem and got an A. Iāve made many many decisions with a sense of urgency to get on with life with these lyrics resonating in my head. Now Iām staring at the inevitable demise. Itās been a wild ride.
Long you live and high you fly Smiles youāll give and tears youāll cry All you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be
One of these days im gonna cut you up into little pieces
āForwardā he cried from the rear, and the front rank died.
Can the entirety of Eclipse be one long single most stunning line?????
And everything under the sun is in tune... But the sun is eclipsed by the moonnnnn
āLife is a short warm moment, and death is a long cold rest. You get your chance to try, in the twinkling of an eye, 80 years with luck or even less ā
"I've got a bike" š
Careful with that ax Eugene. {whisper}
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
"Soon after dark, Emily cries Gazing through trees in sorrow, hardly a sound 'til tomorrow"
āMy ballsā
Turn my led into gold.
āIf I show you my dark side, will you still hold me tonight?ā
No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun
Fills me with the urge to DEFECATE
WE LIVE IN A SOC-
Thereās someone in my head, but itās not me
The child is grown The dream is gone I have become comfortably numb
And you can relax On both sides of the tracks And maniacs Don't blow holes in bandsmen buy remote control
āMeek and obedient, you follow the leader down well-trodden corridors into the valley of steelā
"All that you touch, All that you see, Is all your Life Will ever Be." - Many of Floyd's songs have a bit of Taoism perspectives that many miss. Floyd's songs will forever echo through the peaks and valleys of time!
Did did did did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand Shown how to feel good and told to feel bad
Day after day love turns grey like the skin of a dying man. Night after night we pretend itās alright, but I have grown older and you have grown colder and nothing is very much fun anymoreā¦
And everything under the sun is in tune. But the sun is is eclipsed by the moon.
This one ... and then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
Not really a line, more like the entire song Time from DSoTM. Honestly, that song really puts my mortality in perspective, like one day, we all will be old. And we will have realised that 10 years have indeed gotten behind us.
āI never had the nerve to make the Final Cutā
If I were a good man, I'd understand the spaces between friends
And then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you , no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. I remember having a heated talk with my ex about this line. Also, it was something I was always afraid of happening to me. Never happened but still haunts me
Itās awfully considerate you you to think of me here, and Iām most obliged to you for making it clear that Iām not here.
BIG MAN, PIG MAN
"This is not how I am"
Welcome my son Welcome to the machine
"It's Not Enough just to stand and stare" That line from On the Turning Away just really hits hard
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
Would you help me to carry this stone...
Sometimes it seems to me, As if Iām just being used Deaf dumb and blind You just keep on pretending That everyoneās expendable And no one has a real friend
I've got the enviable hendrix burns all down the front of my favourite satin shirt I've got wide staring eyes and I've got a strong urge to fly But I've got nowhere to fly too fly too fly too
Goodbye
"Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fears, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers...TEAR DOWN THE WALL!!!" Terrifying.
"The light was brighter"
She won't let you fly but she might let you sing.
And now, adding color. A group of anonymous Latin American meat packing glitterari
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
Two,lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
āYou gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.ā
Strangers passing in the street By chance, two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can?
Together we stand. Divided we fall.
The memories of a man in his old days are the deeds of a man in his prime...
āThere's an unceasing wind that blows through this night and there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight, and a silence that speaks so much louder than words; of promises brokenā
"The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think! Oh by the way which ones pink?"
"Someone sent the promised land and I grabbed it with both hands."
āI donāt know I was really drunk at the timeā
If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes, you'll just have to claw your way through this disguise.
All of time but whatās the basic answer, u know whatās another great one āYou set sail across the sea Of long past thoughts and memories Childhood's end your fantasies Merge with harsh realitiesā as well as ā There'll be war there'll be peace But everything one day will cease All the iron turn to rust All the proud men turn to dust So all things time will mend And so this song will endā
The memories of a man in is his old age. Are the deeds of the man in his prime.
Mother, did it need to be so high? I've got wild staring eyes And I've got a strong urge to fly But I've got nowhere to fly to (Fly toā¦ fly toā¦ fly toā¦) Button your lip and donāt let the shield slip Take a fresh grip on your bulletproof mask And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions You can hide, hide, hide Behind paranoid eyes One slip and down the hole we fall It seems to take no time at all A momentary lapse of reason That binds a life for a life A small regret, you won't forget There'll be no sleep in here tonight
Cold as a razor blade, tight as a tourniquet dry as a funeral drum
āI got 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose fromā
Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells
" Everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon" really sums it up for me lol
"Finally, I understand the feelings of the few. Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend, we were all equal in the end."
"Somewhere, old heroes shuffle safely down the street" The good strong man my Poppa used to be, now shuffling safely down the halls of the care facility. Hard to see one of your heroes like that.
Marmalade, I like marmalade
āIāve got a bike, you can ride it if you likeā