1. Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hours in an offhanded way.

2. So you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

1. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town, waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

2. The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

1. Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain,

2. Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time,

1. you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today.

2. plans that either come to nought or half a page of scribbled lines.

1. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you,

2. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way,

1. no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

2. the time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say.