Karaoké All This Time Sting

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

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 round our house tonight

One young one old 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

All this time the river flowed

Endlessly to the sea

If I had my way 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 be 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 hey yeah yeah hey yeah yeah hey

Teachers 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 'till 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

One by one

One by one by one one by one

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

Two priests on the ferry

October geese on a cold winter's night