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Half Day Closing Lyrics
In the days, the golden days
When everybody knew what they wanted
It ain't here today
Through the times of lasting love
When parents talked of things tried and tested
It don't feel the same
Dreams and belief have gone
Time, life itself goes on
Far beyond the shrinking skies
Where money talks and leaves us hypnotised
It don't pave the way
Underneath the fading sun
The silent sum of a businessman
Has left us choking
Dreams and belief have gone
Time, life itself goes on
In the days, the golden days
When everybody know what they wanted
It ain't here today
Dreams and belief have gone
Time, life itself goes on
When everybody knew what they wanted
It ain't here today
When parents talked of things tried and tested
It don't feel the same
Time, life itself goes on
Where money talks and leaves us hypnotised
It don't pave the way
The silent sum of a businessman
Has left us choking
Time, life itself goes on
When everybody know what they wanted
It ain't here today
Time, life itself goes on
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She is talking about a time when people didnt care so much about money and where happy with what they had and knew wha they wanted, but now money drives society and we are all chocking in our greed.
The sixties probably... Or childhood
The sixties? Try right now. It's a "This world is going straight to Hell" song. This isn't my favorite, but the one I probably listen to the most.
i love this song it definately relates to today how society has crumbled and nothing is ken and barbie
I love this song. I think it's the intensity. It seems so funny that it is about longing and a loss of our strenght of will... but for some reason when I listen to it I always feel empowered somehow...
such a dire, bitter, miserable song...
i love it :thumbsup:
sounds like she's trapped in a box or panicked over the phone, very fitting to the song's imagery. beth's howl at the end sounds like pure fustration and agony.
To me it sounds like growing up, in a way. Not child to adult, but the more gradual and personal progression of youth to cynicism. That point where you grow out of living for beauty, sex, pleasure; and invest purely in currencey. In prescribed values.
It's devastating, I think of the title as half of your life has closed...the happy, childlike part, and now you've enter the money-counting, constant-fears-and-complaints half becomes everything you have ("Time, life itself goes on").