All This Time - Sting

All This Time LRC歌词

[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....