Sting - "All This Time"

This week is going to be extremely difficult to pick just a few of my favorites, so I'll try to include some less-well-known songs that everyone should hear.  This song is from Sting's beautiful "The Soul Cages" album, and was written about his father's death and Wallsend, the town they lived in.  It's also one of a few of his "older" songs featured in The Last Ship musical.  The video actually looks like a mini-version of the show.

I suppose this goes without saying, but Sting is such a gifted songwriter and lyricist.  And those eyebrows go straight to my heart :)

"Blessed are the poor
For they shall inherit the earth
One is better to be poor
Than a fat man in the eye of a needle
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?

All this time
The river flowed
Father, if Jesus exists,
Then how come he never lived here?

Teachers told us
The Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple on the 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
Till all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found"

#YearlongMixtape

#StingAndThePoliceWeek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LdUme7QZLY