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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)