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STING lyrics : "All This Time"


I looked out across
The river today

I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
Where the seagulls play
I saw the sad shire horses walking home

In the sodium light
I saw two priests on the ferry
October geese on a cold winter's night


And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea


Two priests came round our house tonight
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying

To serve the final rite
One to learn, one to teach
Which was the cold wind blows

Fussing and flapping in priestly black
Like a murder of crows


And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river

And I'd bury the old man,
I'd bury him at sea


Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth
Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle
And as these words were spoken I swore I hear

The old man laughing
'What good is a used up world and how could it be
Worth having'


And all this time the river flowed
Endlessly like a silent tear

And all this time the river flowed
Father, if Jesus exists,
Then how come he never lived here


The teachers told us, the Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire

Garrison town,
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound

And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found


And all this time the river flowed
In the falling light of a northern sun
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river

Men go crazy in congregations
But they only get better
One by one

One by one...

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