Sting - All this time (Album The Soul Cages) Chords

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I looked out across the _ river today _ _ [Eb]
Saw [Dbm] _ [Ab] a city in the fog and a mortuary tower
with a seagull flinging _ [Eb] _
_ [Db] [Ab] Saw the sad, shy horse that was walking home
Saw him like _ [Eb] _
_ [Db] two [Ab] priests on a ferry I [Eb] told the geese on [Ab] a cold winter's night
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_ _ _ [Fm] All this time _ _ the [Bb] river _ _ [Db]
flowed _ _ [Ab] endlessly
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She'll [Ab] _ see _ _ two _ priests came around _ [Eb]
me [Ab] I asked tonight
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_ [Ab] _ One young, one old, I'll praise for the dying to serve the final rite _ _
_ One to love, one to teach [Eb] _
_ [Ab] Which way the cold wind [Eb] blows
_ [Dbm] _ [Ab] I'm fussing and flapping and peacefully black like a murderous crow
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All _ [Fm] _ this time _ _ the [Bb] river _ _ [Db]
flowed _ _ [Eb] endlessly
_ I _ _ [Ab] buried him at _ sea, if _ _ _ [Fm] I _ sway _
Take a [Bb] boat from the [Db] river, _ I [Eb] buried the old man
I buried [Ab] him at sea, _
_ [Db] [Ab] I said I love the Lord
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_ [Ab] So they shall inherit the earth, [Eb] _
_ [Db] _ _ [Ab] ready to be poured in me a fat man and an eye of a needle _ _ _ _
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[Ab] I hear the old man laughing, [Eb] _
_ [Db] _ [Ab] my goodness I used up the world and I couldn't [Db] be worth [Ab] having
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_ All [Fm] this time _ _ the _ [Bb] river _ _ [Db]
flowed _ _ [Eb] endlessly _ _ like _ [Ab] a silent tear _ _
_ _ All [Fm] this time _ _ the _ [Bb] river _ _ [Db]
flowed
Father [Eb] if Jesus exists [Ab] and I call me never, he is _ here
He _ is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ here _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ [Ab] Jesus [Eb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Gm] called us, _ [F] _
_ [Eb] _ from the [Bb] smoothest place _
_ They built a wall and a temple and an edge of the empire garrisoned town.
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_ [Eb] [Bb] They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods, but the stone gods did not make a sound.
And their empire crumbled, all who was left were stones, so a workman [F] found.
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_ _ _ [C] _ The river flowed, [Eb] _
_ _ [Bb] in the falling [F] light [Bb]
of _ the northern sun. _
_ [Eb] _ [Gm] Empire _ highway, _ _ _ [C] took a part from another.
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_ _ Men go [Bb] crazy in [F] congregations, [Bb] they only get down one by one. _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] One by [Bb] one. _ _
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] One by one by one. _
_ _ One by one. _ _
[Cm] On the [Bb] catacombs, _ _ _ the river took a roll. _ _
_ They saw a scene of fire, watching the sky, [Eb] they'll see.
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