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Subject: CRD: Time - Alan Parsons Project
Time
Alan Parsons Project
From album The Turn of a Friendly Card
D6				     C9
X X O				X
___________			___________
| | | | | |			| | | | | |
| | | O | |			| | O | | |
----------- 4			----------- 2
| | | | | |			| | | | | |
| | | | | |			| O | | O O
----------- 5			----------- 3
| | | | | |			| | | | | |
| | | | O O
----------- 6
| | | | | |
D                    D6      Bm
Time, flowing like a river
D                    D6      Bm
Time, beckoning me
A             C
Who knows when we shall meet again
Bm      Bb
If ever
D
But time
D6
Keeps flowing like a river
D
To the sea
D                          D6       Bm
Goodbye my love, Maybe for forever
D                                   D6
Goodbye my love, The tide waits for me
A             C
Who knows when we shall meet again
Bm      Bb
If ever
D
But time
D6
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
D
To the sea, to the sea
Bm      Em
Till it's gone forever
C       B
Gone forever
Bb      C   D       C9       D        C9
Gone forevermore
D                             D6         Bm
Goodbye my friends, Maybe for forever
D                                      D6
Goodbye my friends, The stars wait for me
A             C
Who knows where we shall meet again
Bm      Bb
If ever
D
But time
D6
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
D
To the sea, to the sea
Bm      Em
Till it's gone forever
C       B
Gone forever
Bb      C   D
Gone forevermore
D       C9          D          C9
Lyrics fetched from ftp.uwp.edu /pub/music/lyrics
Chords transcribed by N.B

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Maverick Average	#1 by Maverick at Sep 28, 2007 at 8:48 AM EST
	It seems to me that the song is just about looking into the night sky. "In a matter of a moment Lost till the end of time It's the evening of another day And the end of mine" As we all should know, it takes a long time for light to travel across the universe. The stars we see may are not the stars as they are now. So the "moment lost til the end of time" is the "carbon copy" of the image the light reflects into the universe that exists for much longer than we can imagine. It's just another evening of another day to the character in the song, which emphasizes the amazing concept of an image of an entire world existing and speeding throughout the universe long after that world is destroyed. "The end of mine" I think just means it's the end of the character's day, not that it's the end of human reign or whatever. "Now the starlight which has found me Lost for a million years Tries to linger as it fills my eyes Till it disappears" Again, the starlight lost for a million years is just the length of time that it took the light to reach the character. The light tries to linger longer, but eventually it will die. "Could it be that somebody else is Looking into my mind" Is it possible someone on another planet will look at the sky and see our solar system millions of years from now? Imagine the technology that person could have on that foreign planet. Perhaps one day it will be possible to take a picture of the sky with a digital camera, load it onto your computer, and use PhotoShop to zoom in so close that you can actually see activity on the planet that happened millions of years ago. Will other beings be able to "see into our minds" in this way? "Like a mirror held before me Large as the sky is wide And the image is reflected Back to the other side" A telescope perhaps? "Some other place" This obviously suggests it cannot be where the character is. So I don't really think robots and world domination are an aspect of this song. "Some other time" This just enforces the suggestion that someone is seeing us either in the future or in the past (is it possible to find another planet, zoom in on it, and see someone a million years ago doing the same thing to us?).

No Picture Subhash Average	#2 by Subhash Shady at Sep 29, 2007 at 6:56 AM EST
	Back when this song would come on the radio, I thought it was the same song as "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd. I was pretty young though. It's a great, under-played song. I agree with SomeRandomGirl, it is a very touching, albeit sad song; especially the "'till it's gone forever" part. 1

No Picture Chris Rhythm Player	#3 by Chris Pray at Sep 29, 2007 at 2:20 PM EST
	based on the theme of the album, i think the meaning of this song is that the era of humankind is over and it is being replaced by the era of the robot. "It's the evening of another day And the end of mine"

No Picture Nileppezdel Lead Player	#4 by Nileppezdel at Sep 30, 2007 at 10:54 AM EST
	(Who knows if we shall meet again) in the first verse (Who knows where we shall meet again) in the last verse I love this song, it just sounds beautiful. It is sad though.. =/.

No Picture Jelly Wanna Be	#5 by Jelly F at Oct 3, 2007 at 3:38 PM EST
	This is one of the best Project songs. I think that it is about a society prying into his thoughts. Lyrically, it might have been better on Eye in the Sky, but it's still great on I Robot, the best project album. 1

No Picture Alex Average	#6 by Alex Zaphiropoulos at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:03 PM EST
	Basically the character in the song is admiring the universe as he sees it from the earth's night sky and he begins to question his own place in the universe.