[ti:All This Time]
[ar:Sting]
[al:The Soul Cages]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:15.460] I looked out across
[00:19.420] The river today
[00:23.670] I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
[00:26.920] Where the seagulls play.
[00:31.030] I saw the sad shire horses walking home
[00:34.940] In the sodium light
[00:38.290] I saw two priests on the ferry
[00:40.440] October geese on a cold winter's night
[00:45.900] And all this time the river flowed
[00:53.960] Endlessly to the sea.
[01:01.420] Two priests came round our house tonight
[01:09.330] One young one old to offer prayers for the dying
[01:12.490] To serve the final rite,
[01:16.440] One to learn, one to teach,
[01:20.250] Which way the cold wind blows
[01:24.460] Fussing and flapping in priestly black
[01:27.060] Like a murder of crows
[01:31.580] And all this time, the river flowed
[01:39.590] Endlessly to the sea
[01:46.220] If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
[01:54.300] And I'd bury the old man,
[01:57.700] I'd bury him at sea
[02:01.750] Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth
[02:10.070] Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle
[02:17.140] And as these words were spoken I swear I hear
[02:21.140] The old man laughing,
[02:25.090] 'What good is a used up world,
[02:27.090] And how could it be worth having'
[02:32.060] And all this time the river flowed
[02:40.080] Endlessly like a silent tear
[02:46.750] And all this time the river flowed
[02:54.560] Father, if Jesus exists,
[02:57.260] Then how come he never lived here.
[03:13.640] The teacher told us, the Romans built this place
[03:21.400] They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire
[03:25.000] Garrison town,
[03:29.070] They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
[03:32.970] But the stone gods did not make a sound
[03:36.670] And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
[03:40.430] Were the stones the workmen found
[03:44.540] And all this time the river flowed
[03:51.740] In the falling light of a northern sun
[03:58.960] If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
[04:07.070] Men go crazy in congregations
[04:08.880] But they only get better
[04:10.630] One by one
[04:14.740] One by one
[04:18.390] One by one
[04:19.600] One by one...
[04:25.450] I looked out across
[04:29.160] The river today
[04:33.570] I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
[04:36.620] Where the seagulls play.
[04:40.380] I saw the sad shire horses walking home
[04:43.530] In the sodium light....