[00:15.46]I looked out across
[00:19.42]The river today
[00:23.67]I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
[00:26.92]Where the seagulls play.
[00:31.03]I saw the sad shire horses walking home
[00:34.94]In the sodium light
[00:38.29]I saw two priests on the ferry
[00:40.44]October geese on a cold winter's night
[00:45.90]And all this time  the river flowed
[00:53.96]Endlessly to the sea.
[01:01.42]Two priests came round our house tonight
[01:09.33]One young  one old  to offer prayers for the dying
[01:12.49]To serve the final rite,
[01:16.44]One to learn, one to teach,
[01:20.25]Which way the cold wind blows
[01:24.46]Fussing and flapping in priestly black
[01:27.06]Like a murder of crows
[01:31.58]And all this time, the river flowed
[01:39.59]Endlessly to the sea
[01:46.22]If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
[01:54.30]And I'd bury the old man,
[01:57.70]I'd bury him at sea
[02:01.51]
[02:01.75]Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth
[02:10.07]Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle
[02:17.14]And as these words were spoken I swear I hear
[02:21.14]The old man laughing,
[02:25.09]'What good is a used up world,
[02:27.09]And how could it be worth having'
[02:32.06]And all this time the river flowed
[02:40.08]Endlessly like a silent tear
[02:46.75]And all this time the river flowed
[02:54.56]Father, if Jesus exists,
[02:57.26]Then how come he never lived here.
[03:13.64]The teacher told us, the Romans built this place
[03:21.40]They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire
[03:25.00]Garrison town,
[03:29.07]They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
[03:32.97]But the stone gods did not make a sound
[03:36.67]And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
[03:40.43]Were the stones the workmen found
[03:44.54]And all this time the river flowed
[03:51.74]In the falling light of a northern sun
[03:58.96]If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
[04:07.07]Men go crazy in congregations
[04:08.88]But they only get better
[04:10.63]One by one
[04:14.74]One by one
[04:18.39]One by one
[04:19.60]One by one...
[04:25.45]I looked out across
[04:29.16]The river today
[04:33.57]I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
[04:36.62]Where the seagulls play.
[04:40.38]I saw the sad shire horses walking home
[04:43.53]In the sodium light....