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 hometown
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

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 hour ago

    This is a good place to remind everyone that if you wait for social security retirement in America you have a really good chance of dying shortly after that retirement. The great die off starts at 65.

    And yes you can live healthier to have better odds of getting higher on that chart. But you cannot add young years. So if your idea of Europe includes skiing in the alps or something then you need to go before you retire. Don’t let the idle rich dictate your life. They aren’t waiting around.

    • Volkditty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I keep having dreams of things I need to do

      And waking up but not following through

      But it feels like I haven’t slept at all

      When I wake to a silence and she’s facing the wall

      Posters of Dylan and of Hemingway

      An antique compass for a sailor’s escape

      She says, “You just can’t live this way”

      And I close my eyes and I never say

      I’m still having dreams

  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 hours ago

    Surviving in love, surviving in hate
    We still have to die, there can be no escape
    Clock in, clock out, forty hours a week
    Our lives being spent with no real truth to speak

    (Sung by the guy who hung himself at age 40 to the sound of Sean Lennon’s “Into The Sun.” Don’t try this at home, kids.)

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 hours ago

      Same. Especially this song. More chills given than any other song. I’d assume I’ve listened to it 200 times or more at this point

      • flicker@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 hours ago

        Mine is “Dogs.” The combination of the message and the barking in the solo is just…

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
      1·
      30 minutes ago

      Skyscrapers, most likely.

      I used to live in a resort city for the past year, and really missed big city things, like specialty stores - for the whole city there was only one PC store, one bicycle store, one music store - and all of them sucked big time. So I had to rely on online marketplaces… oh wait, there were none, so I had to order international and wait for months. Local taxi was also not good, food delivery business practically non-existent. Same for furniture and appliances, instead of home depot and radioshack you’d have to go to bazaars and ask around. But the most important one is opportunities. I was a digital nomad and lived comfortably, but locals, holy hell, I don’t have any idea how they survive with wages this low. Pretty sure some of those construction workers would trade it all away to live as street musicians in SF or NYC, as just surviving there would put them in like worlds top 0.1%, but instead they work for hours on dangerous jobs for what I would’ve spend on a cup of coffee in a local cafe catered to tourists.

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
        1·
        31 minutes ago

        This claim doesn’t really pass the smell check for me - can you point to where you get the notion from? Checking the lists for average hours worked per year per worker, richer countries routinely have lower numbers than poorer countries.