All This Time lyrics

Artist  : Police 
Song : All This Time



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														   I looked out across 

The
river today, 

I saw a city in the fog and
an old church tower 

Where the seagulls
play. 

I saw the sad shire horses walking
home 

In the sodium light 

I saw two
priests on the ferry 

October geese on a
cold winter's night 



And all this
time, the river flowed 

Endlessly to the
sea. 



Two priests came round 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 

Fussing
and flapping in priestly black 

Like a
murder of crows 



And 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 

And 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' 



And all this time the river
flowed 

Endlessly like a silent tear 

And all this time the river flowed 

Father, if Jesus exists, 

Then how come
he never lived here. 



The teacher
told us, the Romans built this place 

They
built a wall and a temple, 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 



And all this time the river flowed 

In
the falling light of a northern sun 

If I
had my way I'd take a boat from the river 

Men go crazy in congregations 

But they
only get better 

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