All This Time

Song All This Time
Artist Sting
Album 25 Years

Lyrics

[ti:All This Time]
[ar:Sting]
[00:15.62] I looked out across
[00:16.34] The river today
[00:23.40] I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
[00:26.81] Where the seagulls play
[00:30.46] I saw the sad shire horses walking home
[00:34.73] In the sodium light
[00:38.54] I saw two priests on the ferry
[00:40.51] October geese on a cold winter's night
[00:46.20] And all this time the river flowed
[00:50.62] Endlessly to the sea
[01:01.29] Two priests came round our house tonight
[01:08.81] One young one old to offer prayers for the dying
[01:12.56] To serve the final rite
[01:16.48] One to learn,one to teach
[01:20.34] Which way the cold wind blows
[01:23.99] Fussing and flapping in priestly black
[01:27.09] Like a murder of crows
[01:31.51] And all this time,the river flowed
[01:39.03] Endlessly to the sea
[01:46.34] If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
[01:54.53] And I'd bury the old man
[01:56.25] I'd bury him at sea
[02:02.40] Blessed are the poor,for they shall inherit the earth
[02:10.42] Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle
[02:17.18] And as these words were spoken I swear I hear
[02:20.94] The old man laughing
[02:25.21] 'What good is a used up world
[02:26.43] And how could it be worth having
[02:31.91] And all this time the river flowed
[02:40.09] Endlessly like a silent tear
[02:46.90] And all this time the river flowed
[02:55.02] Father,if Jesus exists
[02:57.05] Then how come he never lived here
[03:13.96] The teacher told us,the Romans built this place
[03:21.43] They built a wall and a temple,an edge of the empire
[03:25.39] Garrison town
[03:28.84] They lived and they died,they prayed to their gods
[03:32.91] But the stone gods did not make a sound
[03:36.92] And their empire crumbled,'til all that was left
[03:40.68] Were the stones the workmen found
[03:44.39] And all this time the river flowed
[03:51.96] In the falling light of a northern sun
[03:59.12] If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
[04:07.14] Men go crazy in congregations
[04:08.56] But they only get better
[04:11.46] One by one
[04:18.16] One by one
[04:22.48] One by one
[04:26.08] One by one...
[04:27.05] I looked out across
[04:28.93] The river today
[04:33.45] I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
[04:36.65] Where the seagulls play.
[04:40.16] I saw the sad shire horses walking home
[04:44.88] In the sodium light....