Seer Lyrics - The Seer - Big Country

Long ago I heard a tale I never will forget 

The time was in the telling on the bank the scene was set 

The sky was rolling blindly on, the daylight had not gone 

She washed her hair among the stones and saw what was to come 

All this will pass 

There will be blood among the corn and heroes in the hills 

But there is more to come my boy before you've had your fill 

Men will come and rape the soil as though it were their own 

And they will bathe their feet in oil as I have bathed my own 

All this will pass 

All things must come 

Just as I tell you here 

Stones will stand together as if searching for the stars 

And all come crashing down again before they reach too far 

She turned to face the setting sun, I turned to walk away 

But then she called my name again and beckoned me to stay 

All this will pass 

All things must come 

Just as I tell you here 

She told me of the famous sons who write their names in peace 

Yet be cut down before the time has come for our release 

Just as I tell you here 

Even now I wait for the coming day 

Even now she waits in the dawn 

For the tales she tells, for the gifts that she will sell 

For the sight she knows, for a vision that still grows 

With the dream in her eyes no one's seen 

I listened for so long that day that I can hardly tell 

If what she said was heaven sent or brought to bear in hell 

That men of hope would stand alone and still be cast a lie 

Just as Romans cast them on the day they were to die 

All this will pass 

All things must come 

Just as I tell you here 

Even now I wait for the coming day 

Even now she waits in the dawn 

For the tales she tells, for the gifts that she will sell 

For the sight she knows, for a vision that still grows 

With the dream in her eyes no one's seen