Time

Album

Turn of a Friendly Card, The

Label

Arista Records

Genre

Soft Rock

Composer(s)

Alan Parsons;Eric Woolfson

Entered Chart

Apr 18, 1981

Peak Date

Aug 1, 1981

Released

April 1981 (US) 31 July 1981 (UK)

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Arista 0598

B-Side

The Gold Bug

Alan Parsons, who wrote this song with his Project bandmate Eric Woolfson, told Songfacts: "It's kind of a sad song. I think it's been an inspiration for many people who are growing old or have become ill. It gets played at funerals. It's a slightly melancholy song." This is the most popular song from the album The Turn of a Friendly Card, which has many songs from the perspective of a man in middle age contemplating both the content of his past and what is left of his future. >> Eric Woolfson, who died in 2009, played piano and sang lead on this track. Parsons said in his Songfacts interview: "It's actually a very difficult song to sing, because it goes through an enormous vocal range. Eric did a great job." The Alan Parsons Project was a studio band that didn't perform live until the '90s, when digital sampling made it possible to reproduce their songs. This is an example of a song with rich instrumentation and lots of layers. In addition to a string section, here's the personnel: Vocals, Piano: Eric Woolfson Guitars: David Paton, Ian Bairnson Backing Vocals: Chris Rainbow Bass: David Paton Drums, Percussion: Stuart Elliott

Time
Flowing like a river
Time
Beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea

Goodbye my love
Maybe for forever
Goodbye my love
The tide waits for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea
To the sea

Till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

Goodbye my friend
Maybe for forever
Goodbye my friend
The stars wait for me
Who knows where we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea
To the sea

Till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

Forevermore

Forevermore

Forevermore

Forevermore