All this time (intro) (Listen to midi)

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C                 G - Em - D C G - Em - D

1. I looked out across the river today,

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

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where the seagulls play.

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I saw the sad shire horses walking home in the sodium light,

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I saw two priests on the ferry,

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October geese on a cold winter's night.

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And all this time, the river flowed, endlessly 

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to the sea.

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2. Two priests came round        our house tonight,

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one young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying,

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to serve the final rite.

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One to learn, one to teach, which way the cold wind blows,

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fussing and flapping in priestly black like a murder of crows.

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And all this time, the river flowed, endlessly 

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to the sea.

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

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and I'd bury the old man, I'd bury him at sea.

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3. Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth,

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better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle.

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And as these words were spoken I swear,   

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I hear the old man laughing,

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'What good is a used up world,

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and how could it be worth having!'

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And all this time, the river flowed, endlessly 

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like a silent tear,

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and all this time the river flowed,

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Father, if Jesus exists, then how come he never lived here.

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Yeah, yeah ! Yeah yeah ! Yeah yeah !

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4. The teacher told us,         the Romans built this place,

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they built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire

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Garrison town.

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They lived and they died,   they prayed to their gods

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but the stone gods did not make a sound,

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and their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left.

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were the stones the workmen found.

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And all this time the river flowed

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in the falling light  of a northern sun.

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

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men go crazy in congregations,

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but they only get better one by one.

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One by one.

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One by one.

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One by one….

(Sting)