And Yet
Sting

This town...

This stain on the sunrise

Disguised in the mist,

This morning...

Its 8 am,

A seagull shouts

A sailors warning,

This sky...


This bend in the river

Slows down and delivers me

The tide rolls back

And all my memories fade to black.


And yet,

And yet

I'm back!


This town has a strange magnetic pull,

Like a homing signal in your skull,

And you sail by the stars of the hemisphere,

Wondering how in the hell did you end up here?


Its like an underground river or a hidden stream

That flows through your head and haunts your dreams,

And you stuffed those dreams in this canvas sack

And theres nothing round here that the wide world lacks.


And yet,

And yet

Youre back!


Some night Id lie on the deck and Id stare

At the turning of the stars,

Those constellations hanging up there

From the cables and the rigging


I wonder if she saw the same or managed to recall my name

Why would she ever think of me, some boy she loved who fled to sea?

And why waste time debating

Whether shed be waiting for the likes of me?


So you drift into port with the scum of the seas

To the dance halls and the brothels where you took your ease!

And the ships left the dock, but youre half past caring, And you haven't got a clue whose bed youre sharing.


And your heads like a hammer on a bulkhead door

And it feels like somebody might have broken your jaw

And theres bloodstains and glass all over the floor

And you swear to God yell drink no more.


And yet,

And yet


In truth

Its too late to find her


Too late to remind her

At some garden gate

Where a servant tells me I should wait

And perhaps a doors slammed in my face

My head must be in outer space,


And yet,

And yet...


Before the sun has set

Before the sea

There maybe something else

That's waiting for the likes of me!


This town...

This stain on the sunrise....


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  \u201cRyght honorable: as I have bin most bounde u...   3 O'Clock Shot   3 O'clock Shot - Live   3 O'clock Shot - Live   50,000   6Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming   A Day In The Life   A Kind Of Loving   A Sermon   A Thousand Years   After The Rain Has Fallen   Ain't No Sunshine   Ain't No Sunshine   All For Love   All Four Seasons   All This Time   Almost There   Always on Your Side [*]   An Englishman in New York   Angel Eyes   Another Day   Another Day [DVD]   Another Pyramid   As The Years Go Passing By   August Winds   Away From Home   Baby Please Don't Go   Ballad Of The Great Eastern   Balulalow   Be My Girl - Sally   Be Still My Beating Heart   Bed's Too Big Without You   Belle Dame Sans Regrets   Beneath A Desert Moon   Bethlehem Down   Big Lie Small World   Big Lie, Small World   Black & White Army   Black & White X 5   Black & White Army   Black And White Army (Bringing The Pride Back Home...   Blake's Cradle Song   Bombs Away   Book of My Life   Born In The 50's   Born In The 50's   Brand New Day   Brimstone 2   Brimstone And Treacle   Bring On The Night   Bring on the Night/When the World   Bring on the Night/When the World Is Running Down ...   Broken Lady   Can She Excuse My Wrongs?   Can she excuse my wrongs? - 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