All This Time chords by Sting
Intro 1
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I looked out across
Verse 1
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The river today
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I saw a city in the fog
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And an old church tower
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Where the seagulls play
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Saw the sad shire horses
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Walking home in the sodium light
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Two priests on the ferry
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October geese on a cold win- ter's night
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Chorus 1
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And all this time
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The river flowed
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Endlessly
To the sea
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Verse 2
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Two priests came round
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Our house tonight
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One young, one old
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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
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Which way the cold wind blows
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And fussing and flapping in priestly black
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Like a murder of crows
Chorus 2
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And all this time
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The river flowed
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Endlessly
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To the sea
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If I had my way
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I'd take a boat from the river
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And I'd bury the old man
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I'd bury him at sea
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Verse 3
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Blessed are the poor
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For they shall inherit the Earth
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Better to be poor
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Than a fat man in the eye of a needle
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As these words were spoken I swear
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I hear the old man laughin
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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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Chorus 3
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And all this time
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The river flowed
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Endlessly
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Like a silent tear
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All this time
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The river flowed
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Father, if Jesus exists
Interlude 1
Then how come he never lived here?
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Verse 4
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F#m
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Teachers told us
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The Romans built this place
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They built a wall and a temple
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on the edge of the Empire Garrison town
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They lived and they died
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They prayed to their gods
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But the stone gods
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did not make a sound
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F#m
And their empire crumbled
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Till all that was left
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Were the stones the workmen found
Chorus 4
F#m
And all this time
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D
the river river flowed
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In the falling light
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F#m
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of a northern sun
F#m
If I had my way
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D
Take a boat from the river
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Men go crazy in congregations
Outro 1
They only get better one by one
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One by one
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One by one, by one
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One by one
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I looked out across
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The river today
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A
Saw a city in the fog
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And an old church tower
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A
F#m
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Where the seagulls play
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F#m
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Saw the sad shire horses walking home
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A
In the sodium light
F#m
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D
[Fade out]
All This Time
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