All This Time - Michael Esper/The Last Ship Ensemble

作词：Sting

作曲：Sting

I looked out across

The river today

Saw a city in the fog

And an old church tower seagulls play

Saw the sad shire horses walking home

In the sodium light

And a pale sun shrinks from the empty streets

And day falls into night

All this time

The river flowed

Endlessly

To the sea

Wallsend

Oh yeah Wallsend

More like the world's end

Our teachers told us

The Romans built this place

Built a wall and a temple

At an edge of the empire garrison town

They lived and they died

And they prayed to their gods

But the stone gods did not make a sound

And their empire crumbled till

All that was left

Were these stones the workmen found

All this time

The river flowed

Endlessly

To the sea

If I had my way

I'd take a boat from river

And I'd bury the old man

I'd bury him at sea

Nothing's ever changed 'round here

Not in ten thousand years I fear

Same bend in the river

Where the tide slows down

And the seagulls circle this dirty old town

So I ask myself

Why the hell would I stay

Just churches and pubs

Where drink or you pray

And the sky's still the same old battleship gray

If only the pubs stayed open all day

All this time

The river flowed

In the falling light

Of a northern sun

Well I had my way

I took a boat from the river

'Cause men go crazy congregations

They only get better

One by one

One by one

One by one by born

One by one

I looked out across

The river today