Ticking away the moments

that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours

in an off-hand 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 the 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

The sun is the same

in the relative way, but you're older
And 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 desparation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

W and M - Richard Wright(RIP) - Pink Floyd