I Burn For YouNow that I have found you In the coolth of your evening smile The shade of your parasol And your love flows through me Though I drink at your pool I burn for you I burn for you You and I are lovers And nighttime falls around our bed In peace we sleep entwined And your love flows through me Though an ocean soothes me head I burn for you I burn for you Stars will fall from dark skies As ancient rocks are turning Quiet fills the room And your love flows through me Though I lie here so still I burn for you I burn for you Sting Index Another DayEvery day that goes by, a new hungry baby starts to cry Born astride a painful grave, drowned in hunger's tidal wave Pick a child that you can save, it'd be the only one If Africa escapes starvation, not only food but education The desert grows with every minute, trapping everybody in it All the children look the same, they wonder why they came But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure Harder still to know the reason why, why, why The only thing I really know for sure Is that another day, another day's gone by Every day that goes by, a brand new missile points towards the sky We're survivors of a game of chance, beneath an arms race avalanche If you survive this winter's cold, you'd be the only one If we escape annihilation, not only hope but education The world is ruled by (?), adding to their weapon piles Imagine what your taxes buy, we hardly ever try But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure Harder still to know the reason why, why, why The only thing I really know for sure Is that another day, another day's gone by Oh that this too sullied flesh would melt and resolve into a dew Suffocating lassitude, drowning in my platitude Trapped by insecurities, I'm not the only one If I survive this dislocation, have to use my education The world is ruled by (?), adding to their weapon piles Imagine what your taxes buy, we hardly ever try But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure Harder still to know the reason why, why, why The only thing I really know for sure Is that another day, another day's gone by Sting Index I Been Down So Long( J B Lenoir / A Atkins ) The sun sets across the ocean I'm a thousand mile from anywhere And my pocketbook in my heart Both just got stolen And the sun act like she don't even care The wind blows cold when you reach the top Feels like somebody's face is stuck to the bottom of my shoe Got a plastic jesus, a cordless telephone for every corner of my room Got everybody but you tellin' me what to do Well I've been down so long It can't be that much longer still And I've been down for so long That the end must be drawing near I looked to everybody but me To answer my prayers Until I found an angel in the bathroom Who said she didn't see anybody who was saving anywhere And the blind man said, "Simple... like flipping a coin - Don't matter what side it lands on So long as it's somebody else's dime" Cause if you're the top of the bottom It all feels the same We live out of fear if we're too rich or we're too poor Guess all I can do is muster up some change And a little bit of faith And take some dignity when I walk through this door Gonna take a trip Catch a train Got a ticket in my hand And then a fat man takes my money And like cattle we all stand I'm just a faceless body lost in this vast and worthless sea In a thousand people I do not know But really they are no different from me They all have passion They all have fear They all have intense confusion And no sweet moments that are clear They all have aspirations High hopes and dreams And are really that alone like me We've been down so long It can't be that much longer still We've been down so long That the end must be... The end must be... The end must be drawing near Sting Index |
