Kinks, The - Killing Time Lyrics
Everybody's going somewhere
See how they stand in line
All complaining their lives are unfair
Too bad for them, too bad for mine
(Killing time), Not knowing when
They're watching me, I'm watching them
Standing by the empty mine
(Killing time)
It's a killing time
I know it well
Killing time
Until the bell
And in between, the killing time
(Killing time) Giving me hell
Up above the stars still shine
Through the poverty and grime
Of the empty streets below
Killing time, nowhere to go
(Killing time)
Tell me, brother what's the plan?
Will I be a working man?
And occupy my idle mind
Or kill the time I knew so well
(Killing time) Giving me hell
Still I can smile at what I see
Soap operas full of vanity
So much wealth and property
Side by side with petty crime
Is that all life's meant to be?
Commercials full of luxuries
A man has one, a cat has nine
And in between it's killing time
(Killing time)
It's a killing time
I know it well
Too late to change
Too soon to tell
Still I can smile at what I find
Waiting round and killing time
Bite the bullet
Help me through it
These lunatics will take my mind
Why can't life be more sublime
Than all of this waste and killing time
Killing time
I know it well
It's the killing time
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Kinks, The Killing Time Comments
I agree.Better songs than.Beatles/Stones. Kinks songs stand the test of time.
Well, Beatles and Stones songs too. I like all three..
hang about is it me am i going deaf? Is there supposed to be 2 songs here? I only heard 1 Killing Time and not the other song.
Many thanks for this. I love this song from possibly my fave Kinks Album Think Visual.
Oh how much of my last 3 years since I retired has been simply Killing Time?
Like so much of Ray Davies songs this is bang on the money. It sums up so much of what I see of whats been happening to society. "Is that all lives meant to be commercials full of luxury"? How true Ray.
love this
The man has one the cat has nine and in between its killing time.
The Kinks catalogue of music is far better than the Stones and the Beatles! And Ray Davies is a genius....pioneered heavy metal before Black Sabath, pioneered Punk before the Sex Pistols, pioneered bubblegum before the Ohio Express...what else can I say?
Amen to that!
Ray is the best story teller of all time!
God save the kinks
Favorite song on this album---severely underlooked and underrated--great tune of my favortites---play LOUD and often I DO
Pity the video didnt tell the story of this great song..
With so much unemployment around again this lyric is very 2012. Great song again Raymondo..