TIME

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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day 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 And 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

And 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 quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

BREATHE REPRISE

Home, home again I like to be here when I can And when I come home cold and tired It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

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=Theme~Carpe Diem = // **Carpe diem** // is a phrase from a [|Latin] poem by [|Horace] that has become an [|aphorism]. It is popularly translated as "seize the day". // Carpe // literally means "to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather", but [|Ovid] used the word in the sense of, "to enjoy, seize, use, make use of". [|[1]]

=Alarm Clock = What do you think the alarm clock symbolizes? Can you think of a story we read that might relate to this?

Alliteration ~ Internal Rhyme ~ Contrasting Images
Can you identify alliteration (same beginning sounds), internal rhyme and contrasting images in the song?

Classic Literature
In Leo Tolstoy’s “How Much Land Does a Man Need,” the main character loses a similar race, dying as the sun sets. Can you find any references to this in the song?

YOUR TASK
Research some of your favorite songs. You need to find and share one song that has some elements of poetry and connection to literature.

Other Music

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