Tired of lyin’ in the sunshine, stayin’ home to watch the rain On the first half of each verse, Gilmours singing by himself, angry and raspy, followed by the calmer Wright singing his last vocals in this incarnation of Floyd while backed by seemingly the whole of England - really just four background singers run through effects - as a heavenly choir, as he delivers the button for each verse. There really isn’t a chorus on “Time,” but there are disparate vocal sections. Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown Ticking away the moments that make up the dull dayįritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Eventually, they break into a funky groove and David Gilmour sings the opening verse:
“Time,” of course, famously starts off with a whole bunch of clocks going off - a perfect “WAKE UP, HERE COMES WISDOM” for the legions of stoners who had been lulled by the calm at the end of “On The Run,” - followed by Roger Waters making a tick-tock on his bass while Nick Mason circles around his rototoms for a couple of minutes while Wright plays atmospherically doomy notes.īecause even on a song that acknowledges that we’ve all got limited time, Pink Floyd is still going to take their sweet getting to the point. On the other hand, one of those two actual songs is pretty close to my all-time favorite Pink Floyd song, the absolutely stunning “Time.” Even as a callow teenager, “Time” struck me as pretty true, and 45 years later, well, you know. overrated is the wrong word, so how about “undeserving?” And while side two is pretty much bulletproof, kicking off with with an unlikely hit single and closing with a piss-taking joke that’s still a meme all these years later, I’ve always been bothered the fact that are only two actual songs on the first side, bumping up against sound collages and the piano-led tone poem with vocal pyrotechnics which closes it. So it really doesn’t matter what I think, does it? But I’ll tell you anyways: I’ve always found it a tad. What is there to say about a behemoth like The Dark Side of the Moon? It’s been so incredibly ubiquitous for so incredibly long, it’s pretty much woven into the fabric of the lives of anybody who has listened to popular music for the past several decades.
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