專輯：25 週年史詩精選
(The Best Of 25 Years)
歌曲：All This Time
(Album Version)
I looked out across
The river today
I saw a city in the fog
and an old church tower
Where the seagulls play
I saw the sad shire horses
walking home
In the sodium light
I saw two priests on the ferry
October geese on a cold
winter's night
And all this time
the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea
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 was the cold wind blows
Fussing and flapping
in priestly black
Like a murder of crows
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 a needle
And as these words were
spoken I swore I hear
The old man laughing
'What good is a used up world
and how could it be
Worth having'
And all this time
the river flowed
Endlessly like a silent tear
And all this time
the river flowed
Father if Jesus exists
Then how come
he never lived here
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
And all this time
the river flowed
In the falling light
of a northern sun
If I had my way I'd take
a boat from the river
Men go crazy in congregations
But they only get better
One by one
One by one...
