All This Time - STING 3.0 Live

I looked out across

The river today

Saw a city in the fog and an old church town where the seagulls play

Saw the sad shire horses walking home

In the sodium light

Two priests on the ferry

October geese on a cold winter's night

All this time

The river flowed

Endlessly

To the sea

Two priests came 'rounf

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 way the cold wind blows

And fussing and flapping in priestly black

Like a murder of crows

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

As these words were spoken I swear

I hear the old man laughing

"What good is a used up world, and how could it be worth having?"

All this time

The river flowed

Endlessly

Like a silent tear

All this time

The river flowed

Father, if Jesus exists

Then how come he never lived here?

Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Teachers told us

The Romans built this place

They built a wall and a temple and 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

All this time

The river flowed

In the falling light

Of a Northern sun

If i had my way

Take a boat from the river

Men go crazy in congregations

They only get better one by one

Yeah, yeah (one by one)

Yeah, yeah (one by one)

Yeah, yeah (one by one)

Yeah, yeah (I looked out across)

Yeah, yeah (The river today)

Yeah, yeah (Saw a city in the fog and an old church town)

Yeah, yeah (Where the seagulls play)

Yeah, yeah (Saw the sad shire horses walking home)

Yeah, yeah (In the sodium light)

Yeah, yeah (Two priests on the ferry)

Yeah, yeah (October geese on a cold winter's night)