17 Sep: Us and them

چقدر زمان به سرعت ميگذره و ما هيچ وقت بهش نميرسيم، ديروز داشتم بلاگى ميخوندم در مورد همين موضوع. اينكه هميشه از گذشته فرارى هستيم و به دنبال آينده ميدويم. اين منو ياد آهنگ Time و Breathe از پينك فلويد انداخت. آهنگ ها رو پيدا كردم و براى چندمين بار گوش دادم.

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around and chose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

اين قسمت يه زندگى متعادل رو نشون ميده، يه زندگى آرام، يه زندگى كه با لحظه ها پيش ميره، لحظه هاى گريه ، لحظه هاى خنده، چيزايى كه ميبينى و لمس ميكنى. اينها معناى زندگى

Run, run rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one

اما اين قسمت يك زندگى واقعى رو نشون ميده، زندگى كه همش در حال دويدنى، لحظه اى وقت براى نشستن و لذت بردن از گرماى خورشيد نيست. زندگى كه بايد بجنگى. اما در آخر چى نصيبت ميشه:

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave.

در ادامه این آهنگ، آهنگ تایم هست كه اونم در تاييد اینه.:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You 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

لحظه ها تكرارى و خسته كننده شدن، و زندگى روزمره شده، لحظه ها به هدر ميرن. خسته از خوابيدن زير آفتاب، خسته از تماشاى بارون از پنجره.

سالها همين طورى به هدر ميره و تو نقطه شروع رو گم كردى. منتظر كسى كه راه رو به تو نشون بده.

و اما تو ميدوى، ميدوى كه لحظه ها رو به هدر ندى، ميدوى كه به خورشيد برسى. هر روز توان و انرژيت كمتر ميشه ولى خورشيد مثل هر روز.

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 in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

هر روز خسته تر، دلسرد و ناميد. هر سال كوتاه تر و تو به نقطه پايان زندگي نزديك تر ولى زمان رو از دست دادى.

Home, home again
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
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

و حالا دوباره ياد خونه ميفتى. دوست دارى دوباره بارون رو از پشت شيشه تماشا كنى. وقتی سردت بشه كنار بخاری خودتو گرم كنى. دوست دارى زير آفتاب دراز بكشى.

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I was looking for the lyrics of these two songs and later I came up with Us and Them, from the same album (Dark side of the moon) which I also like. In my surprise I realized that Richard Wright, who wrote the song, has just passed away. This made me to listen to lot of Pink Floyd yesterday and Today.

In fact I generally listen to rock music a lot, because of its aggression, especially when you are forced by yourself to cover your depression and desperation; this aggression heals your feelings. But none of the band caught me like Pink Floyd. In a situation you need someone gives you the description of the outside world rather than try to give you a nonsense hope, and this is about a lot of Pink Floyd songs. Time and Breathe. Comfortably numb, sit in a chair and close your eyes and you think it reads through your messed up feeling line by line. Eclipse:

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
everyone you meet
All that you slight
everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
There is no dark side of the moon really.
Matter of fact it's all dark.

If someone does tell you about dark side of the moon, then you don’t need to worry about yourself, then you don’t need to have hope, and then you understand that everything is based on the situation of the moon and sun and planets and stars in the galaxies. You don’t need to worry about the philosophy of life (because there is not any); and this is actually an absolute hope.

Animals, The Final Cut, Hey you and lot of other songs all of which have a lot of inspiration and hopeful meaning, are the greatest songs I have ever listen.