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Time is a song from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon, and the only song on the album credited to all four members of the band. It is noted for its long introductory passage of clocks chiming and alarms ringing, recorded as a quadrophonic test by Alan Parsons, not specifically for the album.

Each clock at the beginning of the song was recorded separately in an antiques store. This is followed by an eerie two-minute passage dominated by Nick Mason’s rototoms and backgrounded by a tocking sound created by Roger Waters picking two muted strings on his bass. With David Gilmour singing lead on the verses and with Richard Wright singing lead on the bridges and with female singers providing backup vocals, the lyrics of the song deal with Roger Waters’s realization that life was not about preparing yourself for what happens next, but about grabbing control of your own destiny.
A guitar solo from Gilmour provides the refrain over the same chord progressions as the verse and chorus, and it is often praised among the fans as one of his best. A reprise of the album’s earlier “Breathe” brings the song to a closing, before it segues into “The Great Gig in the Sky”.

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From the out-of-print VHS version of Pulse, with the airplane intro. A little dark though....

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Lyrics

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
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hiho59 wrote:
yesterday afternoon

just sparking one up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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pp_rocker wrote:
Wednesday morning

la mejor cancon y el mejor solo de guitarra k hay

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blossum wrote:
Monday evening

great head music

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doughgal wrote:
Saturday afternoon

ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way...

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EdgeLike wrote:
last week

My favorite Pink Floyd song. There is such a diverse catalog to choose from but Time is just too epic.

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FC3SCorey wrote:
last month

Needs another 60 minutes added to it.

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bobo9390 wrote:
last month

My favorite guitar solo. Period.

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creedman48 wrote:
last month

Knebworth 1975? I was there anyway :-)

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Iron-8 wrote:
last month

When I was a child and I has been on the summer-camp, each morning we got awake with this song!

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usakan wrote:
last month

gözkapaklarıma degen uyku haliyle bu gece de beni tekele gönderdin ya... anam avradım olsun diye söverek içiyor dinliyorum şarkıyı

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SirPsychoFlea wrote:
last month

love that they put the breathe reprise at the end of this

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Torenkownage wrote:
last month

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-2cobag_8 Link to Weezer doing it. Surprisingly really good...

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monangh wrote:
last month

absolutely great http://westsounds.com/

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KovSauce wrote:
October 2008

Noone told you when to run, you've missed the starting guuuuun.

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licoricepizza wrote:
October 2008

Weezer actually played this at their concert in Los Angeles last week. A really nice, faithful rendition. I heard a lot of appreciative gasps and "ooooo's" in the audience, when they realized just what it was.

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rafi2600 wrote:
October 2008

great ! amazing part in the chorus !

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FuckinEchoes wrote:
October 2008

Greatest . solo . ever...

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tp503540 wrote:
October 2008

лучший альбом!!!!

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Cooldawn wrote:
October 2008

oh... psyho. Great lyrics.

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Vih_Gallagher wrote:
October 2008

Time is Wonderfull song :D

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