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All This Time
Sting

from "The Soul Cages" album



G       Em      D      C (x4)

GG Piano Chord 
     EmEm Piano Chord 
  DD Piano Chord 

I looked out across
CC Piano Chord 
       GG Piano Chord 
    EmEm Piano Chord 
  DD Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 

The river today,
GG Piano Chord 
                    EmEm Piano Chord 
           DD Piano Chord 

I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
CC Piano Chord 
              GG Piano Chord 
  EmEm Piano Chord 
  DD Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 

Where the seagulls play,
GG Piano Chord 
        EmEm Piano Chord 
      DD Piano Chord 
            CC Piano Chord 

I saw the sad shire horses walking home
GG Piano Chord 
            EmEm Piano Chord 
  DD Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 

In the sodium light
GG Piano Chord 

I saw two priests on the ferry
EmEm Piano Chord 
       DD Piano Chord 
         CC Piano Chord 
              GG Piano Chord 
    EmEm Piano Chord 
  DD Piano Chord 

October geese on a cold winter's night

EmEm Piano Chord 
         D/F#D/F# Piano Chord 
  EmEm Piano Chord 

And all this time,
AA Piano Chord 
            CC Piano Chord 

The river flowed
DD Piano Chord 
             GG Piano Chord 
    EmEm Piano Chord 
  GG Piano Chord 
  DD Piano Chord 

Endlessly to the sea.

( Verses are just G-Em-D-C repeated;
Chorus is as above, repeated till end of chorus )

Two priests came round our house tonight
One young, one old, to 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

Chorus:
And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea
If I had my way I'd 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 a fat man in the eye of the needle
And 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"

Chorus:
And all this time the river flowed
Endlessly like a silent tear
And all this time the river flowed
Father, if Jesus exist,
Then how come he never lived here.

(Now switch key to A - thus this verse is A-F#m-E-D)

The 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, 'til all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found

Chorus:
F#mF#m Piano Chord 
        EE Piano Chord 
  F#mF#m Piano Chord 

And all this time
BB Piano Chord 
             DD Piano Chord 

The river flowed
EE Piano Chord 
              AA Piano Chord 
    F#mF#m Piano Chord 
  AA Piano Chord 

Endlessly to the sea
F#mF#m Piano Chord 
          EE Piano Chord 
  F#mF#m Piano Chord 

If I had my way
BB Piano Chord 
                DD Piano Chord 

I'd take a boat from the river
EE Piano Chord 

Men go crazy in congregations

But they only get better
One by one

(repeat A-F#m-E-D progression and fade)

One by one
One by one by one
One by one

I looked out across...  { Chorus: All this time... }



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|                          |  "You see a city in the desert lies             |
|       Luis Ferreira      |   The vanity of an ancient king                 |
|                          |   But the city lies on broken pieces            |
|                          |           Sting  -  The Soul Cages              |
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