Chansons sur le temps qui passe

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La chanson qui m'a donné envie de faire cette liste.

Yes, star-crossed in pleasure
The stream flows on by
Yes, as we're sated in leisure
We watch it fly, yes

And time waits for no one, and it won't wait for me
And time waits for no one, and it won't wait for me

Time can tear down a building or destroy a woman's face
Hours are like diamonds, don't let them waste

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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.
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.

So 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 nought or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say

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Lorsqu'il compose la chanson, Dylan est dans une période de changements. Il se critique lui-même. Ce qu’il acceptait auparavant, il le met en doute aujourd’hui, en espérant que l’innocence le gardera jeune pour toujours.


Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

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Time passes slowly up here in the mountains,
We sit beside bridges and walk beside fountains,
Catch the wild fishes that float through the stream,
Time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream.

Once I had a sweetheart, she was fine and good-lookin',
We sat in her kitchen while her mama was cookin',
Stared out the window to the stars high above
Time passes slowly when you're searchin' for love.

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Time passes slowly up here in the daylight,
We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right,
Like the red rose of summer that blooms in the day,
Time passes slowly and fades away.

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My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, dad"
"You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw, I said-a, not today
I got a lot to do, he said, that's okay
And he, he walked away, but his smile never dimmed
It said, I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him

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Well, he came from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?
He shook his head, and they said with a smile
What I'd really like, dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please?

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I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind
He said, I'd love to, dad, if I can find the time
You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad
It's been sure nice talking to you
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

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When I was younger
Living confusion and deep dispair

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Now I am older
The more that I see the less that I know for sure
Now I am older ah hah
The future is brighter and now is the hour

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Living on borrowed time
Without a thought for tomorrow

Good to be older
Would not exchange a single day or a year

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Time, time, time
See what's become of me

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Seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time ?
Funny how my memory skips
While looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme

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I was twenty-one years
When I wrote this song
I'm twenty-two now
But I won't be for long
Time hurries on
And the leaves that are green turn to brown
And they wither with the wind
And they crumble in your hand

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Can you imagine us
Years from today,
Sharing a park bench quietly ?
How terribly strange
To be seventy.
Old friends,
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears

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April come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain
May she will stay
Resting in my arms again

June she'll change her tune
In restless walks she'll prowl the night
July she will fly
And give no warning of her flight

August die she must
The autumn winds blow chilly and cold
September I'll remember
A love once new has now grown old

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Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild

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So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same

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Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time

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Time - He's waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me, boy

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I look at my watch it say 9 : 25 and I think "Oh God I'm still alive"

We should be on by now
We should be on by now

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All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to
Watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me
Will eventually be a memory
Of a time when

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The work devoured my waking hours but when my time
Was through
Reward of all my efforts
My own Limited Company

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Now I'm old I puff my pipe but no one's there to see
I ponder on the lesson of my life's insanity
Take care of those you call your own
And keep good company

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Don't you here my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

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Oh so many years have gone
Though I'm older than a year
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me

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All your letters in the sand
Cannot heal me like your hand
For my life still ahead pity me

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Then as it was, then again it will be
An' though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea
Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays
On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey
Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn't have to grow
But as the eagle leaves the nest, it's got so far to go

Changes fill my time, baby, that's alright with me
In the midst I think of you, and how it used to be

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I'm never gonna leave you. I never gonna leave
Holdin' on, ten years gone
Ten years gone, holdin' on, ten years gone

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How can twenty four hours, baby, sometimes seem to slip into days ?
Oh, twenty-four hours, baby, sometimes seem to slip into days...
A minute seems like a lifetime, baby, when I feel this way.

Sittin, lookin at the clock, time moves so slow.
I've been watchin for the hands to move, until I just can't look no more.

How can twenty four hours, Baby, sometimes seem to slip into days?
A minute seems like a lifetime, Baby, when I feel this way.

To sing a song for you, I recall you used to say
"Oh baby, this one's for we two"... Which in the end is you anyway.

How can twenty four hours, Baby, sometimes slip into days?
A minute seems like a lifetime, baby, when I feel this way.

There was a time that I stood tall, In the eyes of other men.
But by my own choice I left you woman, And now I can't get back again.

How can twenty-four hours, sometimes slip into days?
A minute seems like a lifetime, Baby, when I feel this way.

A minute seems like a lifetime
When I feel this way..

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Chanson sur l’absence d'éternité

All things must pass
All things must pass away

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But after a while
You realize time flies
And the best thing that you can do
Is take whatever comes to you
Cause time flies