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Sting |
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Fields Of Gold |
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All This Time |
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I looked out across |
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The river today |
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I saw a city in the fog |
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And an old church tower |
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Where the seagulls play |
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Saw the sad shire horses |
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Walking home in the sodium light |
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Saw two priests on the ferry |
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October geese on a cold winter's night |
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And all this time |
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The river flowed |
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Endlessly, |
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To the sea. |
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Two priests came round |
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Our house tonight |
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One young, one old, |
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To offer prayers for the dying, |
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To serve the final rite |
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One to learn, one to teach |
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Which way the cold wind blows |
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Fussing and flapping in priestly black |
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Like a murder of crows |
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And all this time |
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The river flowed |
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Endlessly, |
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To the sea. |
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If I had my way |
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I'd take a boat from the river |
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And I'd bury the old man |
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I'd bury him at sea |
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Blessed are the poor |
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For they shall inherit the earth |
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One is better to be poor |
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Than a fat man in the eye of a needle |
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As these words were spoken |
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I swear I hear the old man laughing |
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What good is a used up world, |
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And how could it be worth having? |
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And all this time |
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The river flowed |
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Endlessly, |
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To the sea. |
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All this time |
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The river flowed |
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Father, if Jesus exists, |
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Then how come he never lived here? |
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Teachers told us |
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The Romans built this place |
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They built a wall and a temple |
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On the edge of the empire Garrison Town |
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They lived and they died |
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They prayed to their gods |
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But the stone gods did not make a sound |
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And their empire crumbled |
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Till all that was left |
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Were the stones the workmen found |
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And all this time |
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The river flowed |
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In the falling light |
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Of a northern sun |
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If I had my way |
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I'd take a boat from the river |
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Men go crazy in congregations |
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They only get better one by one |
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One by one |
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One by one, by one |
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One by one |
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I looked out across |
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The river today |
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I saw a city in the fog |
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And an old church tower |
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Where the seagulls play |
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Saw the sad shire horses |
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Walking home in the sodium light |
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Two priests on the ferry |
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October geese on a cold winter's night |
