Escrita por Roger Waters, que fez a letra, com música creditada à da banda inteira, foi gravada entre junho de 1972 e janeiro de 1973 e lançada em 1 de março de 1973 no disco The dark side of the moon e depois saiu em compacto em 4 de fevereiro de 1974 com Us and Them como Lado B. Richard Wright divide os vocais com David Gilmour. A letra fala da passagem do tempo. O tempo passa rápido mas as pessoas não percebem até que é tarde demais. David Gilmour tocou as guitarras, cantou e fez backing vocals. Richard Wright cantou e tocou orgao Farfisa e piano elétrico Wurlitzer. Roger Waters tocou baixo e Nick Mason tocou bateria. Doris Troy, Lesley Duncan, Liza Strike e Barry St. John fizeram backing vocals.
A letra:
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
But 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
So 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
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their
knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell
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