STING - All This Time lyrics

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I looked out across<br>The river today<br>I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower<br>Where the seagulls play<br>I saw the sad shire horses walking home<br>In the sodium light<br>I saw two priests on the ferry<br>October geese on a cold winter's night<br><br>And all this time, the river flowed<br>Endlessly to the sea<br><br>Two priests came round our house tonight<br>One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying<br>To serve the final rite<br>One to learn, one to teach<br>Which was the cold wind blows<br>Fussing and flapping in priestly black<br>Like a murder of crows<br><br>And all this time, the river flowed<br>Endlessly to the sea<br>If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river<br>And I'd bury the old man,<br>I'd bury him at sea<br><br>Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth<br>Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle<br>And as these words were spoken I swore I hear<br>The old man laughing<br>'what good is a used up world and how could it be<br>Worth having'<br><br>And all this time the river flowed<br>Endlessly like a silent tear<br>And all this time the river flowed<br>Father, if jesus exists,<br>Then how come he never lived here<br><br>The teachers told us, the romans built this place<br>They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire<br>Garrison town,<br>They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods<br>But the stone gods did not make a sound<br>And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left<br>Were the stones the workmen found<br><br>And all this time the river flowed<br>In the falling light of a northern sun<br>If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river<br>Men go crazy in congregations<br>But they only get better<br>One by one<br>One by one...