All This Times lyrics

Artist  : Sting 
Song : All This Times



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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
One
by one
One by one...