The Alan Parsons Project - Time (Official Audio) 

As a kid, you loved the melody. *As an adult, you understood the lyrics.*

I've been searching for this song for the last 42 years. I heard it as a child, 11 years old in 1981, standing in a pizza joint in Queens with my mom. I can't tell you how many times over the years I've tried to sing a part of the melody- (To the sea, to the sea'Til it's gone foreverGone forever) the only part that I remembered- to someone to see if they knew it. When the internet came round, every once in a while I would google the bit of lyric I remembered "to the sea" or look up lists of radio hits from 1981. Incredibly, I heard it once again only yesterday. It came on the mix at a restaurant and I had the strangest feeling come over me as I began to recognize it. Shazam this! I yelled at my friends. They all knew it of course. I came home and sat here listening to the song, feeling myself looking back in time at my child self, both of us transfixed. It felt mystical. Like some kind of miracle to hear it again. And so strange that the lyrics were about time, and I felt myself a part of that river of self and time, grown now but still standing, as if in both places. I'm only sharing this because I started to read all the other comments and saw how so many people connect deeply with this song, and I want my tears to join in with theirs...

1981 This song is awesome 2000 This song is awesome 2024 This song is awesome 2045 This song is awesome 2096 This song is awesome 3067 This song is awesome

Its only now that this song impacted me. My husband died 2 mos ago and he used to sing this song holding my hand while driving. Until now his voice resonates on my ears. I miss him so dearly.

The tears flow when I hear this. I miss my sister, my parents, my comrades I served in with the 101st airborne division, my fellow officers I served with as a police officer, some killed in the line of duty, some by their own hands. And yet I am here alone, sort of the last man standing. My life was richer knowing them, and this song brings back their lives. Alan Parsons made some great music, this being one of their best.

I’m 22 years old. This is one of the most beautiful and saddest songs I’ve heard in my life.

The older you get the more this song impacts your mind. A beautiful piece.

I had the biggest crush on a girl named Jenny since I was in the 6th grade in 1981. She was a year older than me and never knew I liked her. I was always afraid to tell her. I would see her and always wanted to tell her but never did. Finally, in my junior year in high school (her senior year) at a school dance, the last one of the year, one of the last few songs of the night, this song came on. I spotted her across the room and said to myself, “It’s now or never.” I summoned up all the courage I had and went over to her and asked her to dance. She said, “Absolutely!” We strode over to the dance floor and started slow dancing. I couldn’t believe it was actually happening. She was tired from dancing all night and just laid her head on my shoulder as we danced. Time seemed to stand still as I couldn’t believe the girl of my dreams was here and dancing with me so close. Then before I knew it, the song ended. She hugged me and went back to her friends and I went back to mine and sat back and soaked it all in. She graduated and I never got to tell her how I felt and never saw her again. But for one moment in time, I had the girls of my dreams in my arms for five minutes and eleven seconds. I often think about her. A few years ago, I sent her a friend request on FB and she accepted. I check in on her FB every now and then. I wonder if she even remembers the dance, probably not, but I will remember it for a lifetime and that’s okay.

When you're 15-16, you wish time would speed up so you could get where you wanted to go in life. When you're 58, you wonder where the time went........

1981 - this song is awesome! 2020 - this song is awesome!

My dad passed away on 7/22. He was my very best friend. We used to listen to The Alan Parsons Project so much when I was a little girl, but I hadn't really thought of them since I became an adult. Last night I was cleaning out his closet, and it was the hardest thing I've done so far. They popped in my head. I opened Spotify and played them on random. This song played first. I feel like my dad sent this song to me, and as sad as it is, I feel like he found a way to say goodbye and that we're both going to be okay. Thank you, Dad. I love you too, forever.

Yes, I'm another one of those "my dad passed away" comments. But sadly it's true. My beloved dad passed away this morning, the best way possible. Holding my sister's hand. He took a last look at her, cried a bit and just stopped breathing. I'm 23 and I can't describe how lost I feel right now without him. He was my guide, my inspiration, gave me good taste in music. He loved this song so much ! And now these lyrics are hitting me so hard... This is for you dad ! You are so loved. I'm sure we will meet again !

Me and a old girlfriend used to spin this album in her basement in the 80s constantly. Now im almost 50 crying in here reading everyones comments. Love you all and hopefully see you on the otherside♐♐💞💞

I was 7 or 8 when this song came out..I never understood why my mom and dad would play it over and over again...40 years later and I cant stop playing it....I get it 🥺

As a young man I understood the meaning of this song but it never hit me until I became older. At 51 years of age now, I've lost 2 children, family and friends throughout the years and I'm not ashamed to say that this song still brings me to tears of all those I have lost. But it's also given me the understanding that they would want me to live my life to the fullest and be as happy as I can be and to know they are all in a better place.

Sung by the late great Eric Woolfson, One of my favorite lead singers.

I can't listen to this song and not cry. Every. Single. Time.

If you're reading this right now, I just wanted to let you know that you are an amazing person. Have a wonderful day.

This is a hauntingly beautiful song.

I have this song on repeat. My dad chose this song for his funeral song, he passed away 12/8/22 . It’s been very hard, I was his only daughter, and I grew up and was never around, once I found out he was sick I still had my distance cause I didn’t like seeing him like that, once I found out he was dying, I was there when I could be, and me and my mom were the only ones out of my siblings to be able to say our last last final goodbyes, he was such a great man, and dad he deserved so much more, and I still wish it was me. I hate myself that I wasn’t there when I should’ve been. Spend time with your parents cause one day they’ll be gone, and you won’t know if you’ll ever be with them again. I love my dad, and I miss him very much, it’s a hard thing to go through just as a teenage girl.

My brother passed away last week and he loved it this song. RIP dear Juan. "Who knows when we shall meet again"

there are times we ignore someone's existence.. until we lost them

I am 73 I sit here listening to this most beautiful song and my life flashes before me. My favorite.

When my wife died suddenly in 2019 shortly thereafter I heard this on the radio...all the feelings,the longing..the tears flowed as I heard this song and thought of her...others have gone since then..my dad as well and certain friends too.This song is for them.Thank you Alan for writing this song.

in memory of a friend who passed away 38 years ago tonight. Rest in peace Jenny you are not forgotten.

One of the saddest and best songs. It makes me cry so much. Be it losing a lover over time or losing someone to death. This song is so much more profound than when I was younger. It stirs such deep, deep emotions. Truly beautiful.

My beloved of 43 years of marriage passed away two years ago and this is one of the songs she loved. It still makes me cry; I loved her so much and still miss her.😥😥😥

my boyfriend, wanted me to play this as his funeral, he passed last Friday, I love you Johnny!!

Time - lyrics: 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...

. This song hurts my heart so much.. the melody, the lyrics the voice .. I am 47 yrs old now and this song makes me feel like Im not really here on earth or in this body..

Today my grandfather passed away at 79 years of age, he died of a peptic ulcer and at the moment the doctors gave me the notice that he died I was listening to this song, I will miss you a lot grandfather

This piece of music is unbelievable. I'm young, just 16 years old, but I still feel great emotions when I listen to this.

This has to be one of the best songs ever made

This song truly brings tears every...single...time I hear it. A hauntingly beautiful song.

I was 7 in 1980 and remember this song and looking up to my father who is still my hero & especially today, which is his 83rd birthday, what a long road we have traveled👍

My parents used to play this album on long car journeys when I was a kid. This song always made me feel so sad. Time seemed to have no significance back then but I think the meaning of the song still managed to reach out to my young mind. And now those times are gone forever...

about 25 years ago a neighbor had a tragic accident and this song was playing in the background. since then i avoided listening to this song. fast forward here i am now facing my fears and listening to this song not to connect it to bad times but to just enjoy the beauty of it.

It's so hard to believe I'm 51 it seems it's just happened in a flash. It makes me sad how fast time goes because I know I don't have another 51 years.

the saddest part of life is when the person who gave you the best memories becomes a memory

I'm only 19 but my father raised me to appreciate good music, help others and to be the best man I could be. Here's to you Dad, gone from this world.

One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Simply haunting.

This was played at my wife Dee's funeral. Such a beautiful song. RIP darling. I can't wait to be with you.

This was my fathers favorite song and now he's 2yrs gone and this song hits differently and it hurts like hell, happy fathers day. edit; someday we'll meet again dad💔

That's the strongest homage to someone who's been so important in life... When my ex boyfriend passed away with only 37 years and I was far away from Santo André (Brazil), this was the first time I used this song to someone so dear to me.... It's pure transcendental this song, the lyrics, today it conforts me, in the past it used to make me feel down. What a vision you had, Mr. Alan Parsons! What a masterpiece about our passage to the other dimension... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard. makes me cry. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART. ESPERANZA.

There should be an "AWESOME! button for this song!

I am at that age where you start losing more of the people you love than you gain back. Just the cycle of life. This song is an absolute brilliant masterpiece of lyric and melody as it completely encapsulates this very scenario. The absolute essence of life with both its beauty and tragedy.

Shall want this played, as a farewell song, at my funeral... Be as strong as I know you are, my loved ones! Time....

A friend of mine told me his theory about why time seems to pass more quickly as you age. It is simply the difference in the ratio between any given time period and how long you’ve been alive. For instance, when you were 5 years old, a year was 20% of your entire life; but when you reach 50, it’s down to only 2%! Your perception changes accordingly. I think he is right.

I used to hear this song playing through doctors offices, stores, and other public places when I was a childnever once really giving it much thought. Now, I've randomly been recommended by youtube to listen to this song laying in bed in the ER right after just being told my cancer has returned and metastasized, I couldn't hold back the tears and started going through Facebook to see pictures of all my friends and family wishing I could say hello to them, but can't bring myself to burdening them with my negative situation, so I just lay in the bed by myself and reminisce of my good times I've had with all of them and how life has passed so fast. I say to all of them in silent reverency, "Goodbye, my friends, the tide waits for me."

the whole album is a fuckin masterpiece.many times in 1980 and since,bolted my headphones on and shut out the world listening to this.

I am 18 years old and I love the Alan Parsons Project. I cry not only for the song, but also for my generation. It's very sad that they don't know these songs and they don't want to discovery this band. This is very sad for me 😢❤

The greatest grief is losing someone you love while they are still alive.

THE GIFT OF GOD ..IS ETERNAL

Every single time,..this song makes me cry.

I adore this song so much, it gives my soul space to travel between the worlds, yet it leaves enough room for emotions. It was my song when I was 14, missing my boyfriend and also with 16, after my mum committed suicide and went far too early. I wish I had listened to and sung this song more often, cried more often and hoped more often. However, I found it again now with 56 after my auntie passed away with 95 and the song is again so soothing and comforting. "Who knows where we will meet again, if ever..." We ARE infinite, time IS infinite, we WILL meet!

I loved this song as a teenager, but now... it really shows how fast our lives all go... like tears in the rain... lost forever.

My beloved dog Jimmy passed away on new year's day. We were joined at the hip for 15 years. This song evokes such bittersweet feelings. I miss him so much but am joyful for the time we had together.

one of the BEST SONGS EVER MADE

"Time " is so touching When I first heard it I was in my 30 now I am in my 60s and so many of my friends are gone forever. Goodbye all my dear old friends who are gone for ever

Goodbye is the hardest word.

Im going to play this at my grandad's funeral soon. He was the one who got me into music and spent so much time watching his jazz master-class drumming as a child. He took me to my guitar lessons and he was my father. Don't know what kind of version, but luckily I have many friends that are willing to come and play out of respect. Thank you from everything, my mentor, my father, my best friend!

My father passed nearly a year and a half ago, I never really grieved, feeling almost as if I didn't have anything to grieve about. Recently I heard this song for the first time at my step dad's house on vinyl. It broke me for days. I couldn't stop listening to it and sobbing. Thank you Alan Parsons Project.

this song is timeless, I miss you mom! "" 😥😭😞

This song takes me back to my younger years. Such a beautiful song. Life goes by fast. Enjoy every minute of it! Don`t fret about the little things. Down the road those little things will forgotten.

As a teen it made my soul soar 😊, now as a 53 y/o it makes my soul ache 😖.

The 80's the best time for the music

This song is hauntingly beautiful and seeps into the crevices of eternal longing for the ones no longer here and ahead of us in the journey. Just lost my last grandparent and about two weeks before she died, I told her, "We are right behind you and will meet up with you and the rest right around the bend. She smiled.

My 28 year old daughter passed 2 years ago. Played it at her funeral.

I miss you mom.

I had forgotten about this wonderful song and the lyrics...........but now I am 70 and can't bare to listen to it because I end up wailing!!!! Why........maybe 70 just made me realize I haven't got much time left.....too sick to go much longer I'm afraid. Looks like by seeing all these people posting in here that the song made a huge impact on their lives as well. It used to make me feel better to have that release of emotion with crying.....but now it just wears me out and completely clogs me up and I can't sleep!!!!!! I know....pitiful isn't it? Sadder stories than mine posted.....so I will quit complaining. Will try again tomorrow to listen......maybe I can get through it. Just so many memories........its overwhelming. Beautiful lyrics and melody so I am most grateful for you all for putting this music together. Love to you all.

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 friends, Maybe forever Goodbye my friends, 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

I'm a 62 yo man. I cry every time I hear this. And I don' t cry often...

Just got back today from spreading my grandparent's ashes in the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coast ... I had just heard this song on the radio for the first time in years about a week ago and of course this song solemnly played in my mind during the boat ride back into harbor 😥

When I was a teenager, I used to dismiss studio-produced music like this as being soulless. How wrong I was. I'm 49 now and have come to regard "Time" as one of the most affecting pieces of music ever created.

Yesterday, my dog Nyla passed away. It has been very hard to think that I will no longer see her. Today, after I got her ashes, I heard part of this song and something told me I had to know which song it was (I don't speak English)... I believe it was her, saying goodbye to me... I'm gonna miss her so much... 🐾🌈

The singer on this Alan Parsons Project song is the late Eric Woolfson who was a founding member & songwriter for The Alan Parsons Project. Alan Parsons is singing the backup vocals and Ian Bairnson played the pedal steel guitar on the track. Wonderful song.

This song reminds me of my mom. I think this was one of her favorites. She was born in 1951. Died at 59 years of age. This song makes me cry.

THANK YOU GOD FOR LETTING US LIVE FOREVER

this song reminds me of my past, where you don't think of problems, no worries, full of happiness. Carefree days.

After my daughter died from suicide, this song was playing lot in my head and was strangely comforting. Can't hear it and not think of her now.

This song holds the saddest and heart wrenching memories that I have. Came out the month I graduated from HS. I had already joined the service and had 2 weeks till I left for active duty on a 3 year hitch. I had to get out of my hometown, I felt compelled to get out in the world, serve my country as my dad, uncles and older brothers had. I didn’t want to just feed off my parents $$ and essentially continue HS by enrolling in the local university. Too easy, you need to give back to this country before you take from her. All was well and good except for my poor mother. She knew that her baby boy was leaving in 2 weeks. She had sent other sons to Vietnam and elsewhere, now it was my turn. Little did I understand how much my leaving signaled the end of her parenting of 6 kids. I left for a week right after graduation on my final senior trip with friends to Panama City Fla, coming back left me with just one week to be with her and my friends, family. I would catch her crying quietly, not fully realizing how much it was paining her to have to let go of her youngest. All the while this song was on the radio. Time. It was my time to start a life, it was her time to let me go. I loved my mother deeply. She was an angel, no son could have asked for a better mother. I left on 9 June 1981. I ended up doing 27 years in the Navy, having a very successful career. My mother died while I was deployed to the Persian gulf Dec 1994. My family waited the week it took me to get home before we buried her. All the while this song was playing in my head. Now as a parent who has had to let go of my own 2 grown kids so that they may live their lives, I have an inkling into how my mother felt. Doesn’t make it any easier, I just have an idea of the pain, Pride, worry and anxiety she must have felt. Thank you Alan Parsons for this song. I knew my life was going to change, little did I know how powerful this song would be for the rest of my life.

His genius on "Dark Side of the Moon" shines through in this tear jerker!

I always cry when I hear this

MASTERPIECE

I love this dude's voice. He hits notes that would qualify him for a children's choir despite being an adult.

RIP Eric Woolfson . . . the classic Alan parson vocalist (died 2009)

One of the most "magical" sounding songs I ever heard.

this was one of the tunes at my Dad's funeral 21 years ago. The funeral director had never heard it before I gave her the CD and said to me after she listened to it- That is absolutely perfect. It needs to go on the suggested music list

I’m on night watch in an overnight yacht race when this song from my 80’s came on the speakers...not a cloud in the sky, stars everywhere above and fish jumping...dead quiet on the boat except for its splashing as we travel...yep, a great flashback hearing this every time

On 2/24/14 "Time" stopped for me … I love and miss you so much Dad and hope we will have all the time to spend together again in Heaven 😢🙏❤🌹🖤

My dad passed away in March and I grew up listening to The Alan Parsons Project among his favourite artists. After his death one of the first songs that I felt the urge to listen to was this one, even if I didn't even remember it... and since then I've been hearing TAPP songs all the time on the radio and in public places, it's heartwarming.

I recently lost my husband of 45 years. I wish I had one more day! So much I should have said. Please don't wait! Tell those you love how much they mean to you. 🙏🏼❤️

One of my best friends passed away in 1982 of cancer at the age of 20. His parents asked all of his close friends for a song to remember John. The 5 of us agreed this song was perfect. I still cry when I hear this beautiful song and I'm now 57. Rest in Peace John. We all miss you.

This is , I believe, the most important, and significant, and beautiful song ever recorded by our human species.............

I'm 64, sometimes when I heard this song , I have the same feeling great sadness

Well, I use to listen to this song when I was 13 or 14 and cry. Guess what? I´m 60 now and look: I did it again!

Life is too precious and too short to live with regrets and resentments. Tell the people that you care for and love that you do so and don't leave any unsaid words. I thought my dad was gonna be here way longer than he was and one day he was just gone. I'll give anything to have him for just one minute and be able to tell him the things that I thought I would have the "Time" to tell him later...

A time when musicians made music with meaning !!!

This song is kind of sad makes you kind realize how short life really is hold on to your memories enjoy your family life and stay humble