The famous quote by Thoreau in the book Walden “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.” is very relevant here, and perhaps writer Waters was aware of it.Įasily one of the best songs about time ever written, if not the best. In the final bit, the song talks about someone in old age doing nothing but sitting home and remembering their life “it’s good to warm my bones beside the fire”. 'Over the Rainbow,' 'The Wizard of Oz,' 1939. Percy Sledge’s R&B (and wedding-soundtrack) staple might be one of the most romantic-sounding songs of all time, but the 1966 hit’s lyrics basically boil down to this: Love fucks everything up. movies, with film title and year of release: 1. Half of your life is over and you don’t have a thing to show for it “and then one day you find ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun”īut you “run and you run to catch up with the sun…”, “shorter of breath and one day closer to death”. The American Film Institute's list of top 100 songs From U.S. You think time is infinite.īefore you know it, you’re old and you can’t do those things anymore. When you’re young you think you have unlimited time and “fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way”. Pink Floyd’s masterpiece Time is a clever representation of an unfulfilled life. I first heard this song when watching Spiderman 2 (the old one with Tobey Maguire), which is my favorite spiderman movie of all time.

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