TIME: The Accidental Clocks and the Young Man Who Wrote Pink Floyd's Darkest Truth (Video Essay)

Why does one song on Dark Side of the Moon make grown adults sit very still? Time is the piece people reach for when they want to describe the terror of realizing their life has slipped past them. But the famous clocks that open it were a happy accident, a sound recorded as a technical test and never meant for the album. And the man who wrote its devastating words about wasting your years had not yet turned thirty. So how does someone too young to have lost any time write the truest warning ever made about losing all of it? Jorge Lucio de Campos