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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 a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath
And one day closer to death Pink Floyd – Time
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Roger Waters uses the image of a sinking sun as a metaphor for growing old and coming closer to death. Once you realize you’ve wasted all this time, you anxiously try to catch up to the time lost – in this case, represented by chasing the Sun as it rises in the east, sets in the west, each and every day – and do something with your life. However, whatever you manage to accomplish will have little affect on the bigger picture. Large ideas/things like the sun will continue along their path as you breathe your last breath.
Throughout our lives, the sun is “the same in a relative way” – it appears to move across the sky although it’s the Earth that travels in an orbit around the sun. Whereas both the sun and Earth’s inhabitants have had intense activity throughout the years, the sun has barely altered while people grow and change. Although they both age, a person may seem older because they are closer to death than the sun is in relation to its own cycle.
This section also references a line in “Breathe (In the Air”-
Dig that hole, forget the sun
Waters was so absorbed in his tasks earlier in life that he failed to acknowledge the passage of time, and it is during this track that this catches up with him- he ignored the sun, and now the sun has run its course without him.
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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 Pink Floyd – Time
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The track before “Time” called “On the Run” deals with the pressures of travel, while this reprise touches more on coming back from those travels and being able to kick back
The decision to place Breathe Reprise after Time arose during the process of working the piece up live before we started recording. Referred to as “Home Again” during the recordings, it was simply the third verse of “Breathe,” detached for structural/emotional reasons.
In some versions of the Dark Side of the Moon booklet, the lyrics to “Time” are separated into the lyrics for “Time” and the lyrics for the “Breathe” Reprise.
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Roger Waters made a late lyric change replacing this line with the earlier live version’s
Lying supine in the sunshine
The supine position is when you lay on the ground face up (versus prone, on your stomach)
The lyric “Lying supine in the sunshine” continued to be used, even during the 1974 tours.
There’s another ironic line here.
He’s grown tired of sunshine, generally a symbol for good times, and is instead fascinated by the rain, generally a bad symbol. Just like how in the first verse we treat our time like it’s something to waste, this says that we ignore the good times we have (the sunshine) in favor of thinking about and watching the rain, or the bad things.
They say the MAC go prrring, but the K go prrrat Cassidy – I Run Philly
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Cassidy is a fan of variety; he’s got both the mac-11 and the AK47 ready
He also went to jail in ‘06 for involuntary manslaughter, so he definitely knows what a guns sounds like
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