I know that I try to usually be a pretty upbeat guy and look at life positively and make things happen for the best in spite of ANY obstacles. But today is one of those days where I heard one of my favorite old Pink Floyd songs but this time the lyrics hit home a little too hard. So, I'm just putting this out there to get off it, dry my eyes and move on. If you haven't heard the music that goes with these lyrics you are really missing out! It's called Time. Here are the majority of the lyrics.


Time: (with one minor edit by me)

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 a quiet desperation is the ADD way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I had something more to say

(I hope this doesn't break any posting rules.)

Wow...one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs and I just now realized the enormity of the lyrics to one with ADHD...

Thanks Fighting Boredom...

Eric

I've always felt that song "spoke" to me, too....expresses how i feel so often.

Thanks for posting it.

I can not listen to pink floyd anymore,it kills me.I feel music way too deeply.It will affect my whole view for the day.I made the tape for my little brothers funeral when I was 18 and Pink Floyd was the first song I put on it."Wish you were here",to this day I have to change channels because its just too much to handle.My biological father turned me on to them when I was 14.He couldnt stand what I was listening to and decided to turn me on to it.Comfortably numb,I love,the turning away,i live,learning to fly?I will.My dad said that when he was really young him and his friends dropped acid and listened to the whole album and he swears they had everything they ever wondered figured out but couldnt remember the next day!LOL!!!!!Typical.I also love Kate bush.The cure and concrete blonde.I think this has inspired me to go buy some music today.

I can not listen to pink floyd anymore,it kills me.I feel music way too deeply.It will affect my whole view for the day.I made the tape for my little brothers funeral when I was 18 and Pink Floyd was the first song I put on it."Wish you were here",to this day I have to change channels because its just too much to handle.My biological father turned me on to them when I was 14.He couldnt stand what I was listening to and decided to turn me on to it.Comfortably numb,I love,the turning away,i live,learning to fly?I will.My dad said that when he was really young him and his friends dropped acid and listened to the whole album and he swears they had everything they ever wondered figured out but couldnt remember the next day!LOL!!!!!Typical.I also love Kate bush.The cure and concrete blonde.I think this has inspired me to go buy some music today.

Isn't it weird how we connect music to things?
My little bro died when he was 18 (this was in '83) and the song that is connected with him is Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry". Depending on the day, hearing that song on the radio can either make me feel like I have an angel on my shoulder or it takes me back to the day that I heard he died and I just kept thinking "I wish it was me instead of him. He had things so much more together."

Geez, Am I having a boo hoo day or what! Somebody kick me in the butt, will ya?

Go figure, I just realized that today is my oldest(also dead) sisters birthday......

Hey,your feelings are completely appreciated and agreed with.losing a sibling is very hard and it never leaves you.It took a long time to come to peace and its still hard.I still feel like hes with me though,ya know what I mean?Like you said a angel on your shoulder.Even though he was younger than me he taught me so many wonderful things that I didnt realize till he was gone.He was a beautiful soul.I feel everything happens for a reason and maybe he was here to teach me love and to never not express my love to my family because they can be gone in the blink of a eye.

That was very well stated. Thanks.

btw, I got to see Pink Floyd outdoors at the old Atlanta Fulton County Stadium the Summer of 1975.They did all of Meddle (my personal favorite), Dark Side of the Moon and their new release at that time, Wish You Were Here.

I'm so glad I got to see them while Roger Waters was still there.It ranks as the best concert (and light show) I've ever seen.

Fightingbordom, thank you for sharing the words to this song. They really give words to how I have been feeling lately.



And i am very sorry about your losses. This must be a sad time for you.

Rita

I think the boys from Pink Floyd were tapping deeply into people's psyche. I have to limit my PF listening or I'll overdose! The music touches deep. My personal favorite is "Comfortably Numb" even though I tell everybody it's "Learning To Fly". (Being a pilot and all!)

Eric

I wonder how they are able to channel such raw emotion into words.What a dream it would be to be able to meet them.

From what I've heard good ole Roger is quite the uh-er eccentric....for lack of a better PC expression.

In regards to meeting PF: the older brother of my high school best friend lived in the UK for a couple of years during the 70's and was a roadie for Pink Floyd and he had some stories to tell. (that would be 3 degrees of separation, right?:D) He would talk about how the band would try to play Beatles tunes but couldn't pull it together enough to make the song sound even close to right....but when they put together their own music it was something mystical. Not just the words or the music...he was talking about how it was like they were all suddenly connected to the same outlet and just played or put together a track.

Wow! This whole thread is bringing back a lot of memories. Some of them are pretty good ones.

lostdog65, "Comfortably Numb" is one of my favorites as well. The part "when I was a child, I had a fever, my hands felt like two balloons" always takes me back to when I was a kid and life was really whacked at my house.

I think it was the early 70's: My 16 yo sister (whose b'day woulda been today) had just run away with her 19 yo hippie boyfriend, my hippie brother was beep up by the cops for protecting a person of another color during a school riot or calling one a pig, and I got sick with some weird virus that made me see things like looking through the wrong end of the binoculars. So, I'd look at my hands and they would shrink down to little toy sized hands...and then "blow up like two ballons". I'd ask my siblings (I'm one of 10)
if they could see it and a couple of the older ones thought I was on Acid.

...it's really freakin' weird......

Anyone ever heard or seen this one from the "hippie days"?
God is Love
Love is blind
Ray Charles is blind
Ray Charles is Love
Ray Charles is God

I think that's how I remember it written on my oldest brother's yellow bedroom wall next to a peace sign.

Ok, I think I'll go have an out of body experience now. :faint:

I figure my signature pic says it all! I understand, Jacaboon

....that my favorite album and maybe song is The Final Cut. I am in my 30's but Floyd seems to tap into anyone whose down. You can just relate to the lyrics and let go. I have the Dark Side tattoo. It's 15 years old and people always ask if I regret it. I always say "never" because there songs represent different times and emotions in my life. Even there newer songs. I often want to say to some people " I'm not perfect...'What Do You Want From Me?'"........Jacaboon

SIG = *Studies show that there are 4 types of personalities. That means 75% of the people out there just don't get you. Next time someone annoys or upsets you don't waste your energy. Simply smile and say to yourself ...
"ahh you're one of that 75%.....
...You just don't get me." "


Jacaboon, I love your signature. That statistic and the studies behind it are the cornerstone of many successful sales programs.
The funny thing that I thought of when I read it is that the average IQ in the US is 100. So, that means that any person you talk to may be exhibiting one of the 4 personality types and will either be above or below the 100 point IQ.

If I calculated it out correctly that means that it's more like 96% (could be 88%?)of the time you are likely to encounter someone who is on a different wavelength and may barely be able to communicate anyway.
That kind of puts a new spin on it, huh? Makes me think we should be cutting more people a break more often....

Then you think...well...everybody really has EACH of the 4 personality types but we don't use them all at the same time. And everyone has those really dumb days.
So, it's entirely possible that on any given day you (and I) have a 96% chance of not being able to relate to the person next to us. Heck, on those days...we can't even relate to ourselves......uh, er, uh, I think I'm having one of those moments RIGHT NOW! :D

God is Love
Love is blind
Ray Charles is blind
Ray Charles is Love
Ray Charles is God

I think that's how I remember it written on my oldest brother's yellow bedroom wall next to a peace sign.

Ok, I think I'll go have an out of body experience now. :faint: FightingBoredom...I used to use that quote in the High School Sunday School class I used to teach years ago. (I'm 40). I loved it!!

My favorite part of "Comfortably Numb" was...

"I turned to look but it was gone,
Cannot put my finger on it now,
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become, comfortably numb."

Eric

I loved the wall the movie.My dad showed it to me when I was 14.I understood.I just got it.My friends never did though.I loved the flower and what it represented.How a man must feel sometimes.Like being eaten alive by something that can appear so beautiful.

FightingBoredom...I used to use that quote in the High School Sunday School class I used to teach years ago. (I'm 40). I loved it!!

My favorite part of "Comfortably Numb" was...

"I turned to look but it was gone,
Cannot put my finger on it now,
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become, comfortably numb."

Eric
Eric, I just listened to Comfortably Numb in my car today. And that was the exact part of the song that I had to hear before I turned it off and got out.
40 huh? I'm 47....maybe it's not an ADD thing but an OLD GUY thing? :D

It's Floyd week at my house...Division Bell is playing right now while the kids are wrestling each other on the carpet in the other room. It's all Pink.
That's my new phrase. Instead of "It's all good"...It's all Pink! :p

Around the same era came the Moody Blues with "Nights in White Satin" and this little poetry recital at the end that has always intrigued me:

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight,
Red is grey and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion.

Now that I think of it many of their song titles or lyrics seem to be a litte ADDish..."Ride my seesaw"......of course, I'm pretty sure they were referring to something other than the ups and downs of life. :D

Wow!!!That was also on my brothers funeral tape.The last was dust in the wind.I did that because we had actually talked about stuff like that because of our raising.I never thought I would be doing his first.My family was so mad cuz it wasnt a religious tape but I didnt care,I promised him and the music moved so many to almost hysteria.You could hear deep sobs and it was so moving because it was real and about him.It was him talking to all of us.