Artist: Sting Album: Bring On The Night {1986}

The afternoon has gently passed me by
Evening spreads its self against the sky
Waiting for tomorrow, it's just another day
As I bid yesterday goodbye

Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

The future is but a question mark
Hangs above my head there in the dark
Can't see for the brightness, its staring me blind
As I bid yesterday goodbye, oh

Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

I said, bring on, bring on the night
Bring on the night, bring on the night, bring on the night
Bring on the night, bring on the night, bring it on, oh

Turn on my VCR
Same one I've had for years
James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show
Same tape I've had for years
I sit in my old car
Same one I've had for years
Old battery's running down
It ran for years and years

Turn on the radio
The static hurts my ears
Tell me where would I go
I ain't been out in years
Turn on the stereo
It's played for years and years
An Otis Redding song
It's all I own

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

When I feel lonely here
I don't waste my time with tears
I run Deep Throat again
It ran for years and years
Don't like the food I eat
The cans are running out
Same food for years and years
I hate the food I eat

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

Kenny Kirkland

When the world - when the world
Is running down, down, down - is running down, down, down
You make the best of it - you make the best of it
What's still around, yeah - what's still around, yeah
When the world - when the world
Is running down, down, down - is running down, down, down
You make the best of it - you make the best of it
What's still around, yeah - what's still around, yeah

We five black guys that don't take the time
This is the way we break down the line
His name is not called with the most finesse
Cos he can do it really good, he can do it the best
Playin' up with Darryl Jones is on the bass
Playin' funky-funky grooves all over the place
Playin' Omar Hakim all nice and neat
He can hang it down with the funky-funky beat
Dolette M. and Janice P.
Playin' background vocals for you and me
Playin' everybody's got to get goin' with the thing
For the man for the night
It's Sting, it's Sting

Wave your hands in the air
And wave 'em like you just don't care
They be gettin' down with Sting sounds
Everybody say, oh, yeah - oh, yeah
Oh, yeah - oh, yeah
Oh, yeah - oh, yeah
Oh, yeah - oh, yeah
You don't stop
Say it, one for the money, two for The Police
Come on everybody let's rock this place
Put your hands together, y'all
Let's break, that's Sting - hit it

Turn on my VCR
Same one I've had for years
James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show
Same tape I had for years
I sit in my old car
Same one I've had for years
Old battery's running down
It ran for years and years

Turn on the radio
The static hurts my ears
Tell me where would I go
I ain't been out in years
Turn on the stereo
It's played for years and years
An Otis Redding song
It's all I own

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

You can't say that, you can't say that
You can't say that, you can't say that
You can't say that, you can't say that
You can't say that, you can't say that

There were rooms of forgiveness in the house that we share
But the space has been emptied of whatever was there
There were cupboards of patience, there were shelfloads of care
But whoever came calling found nobody there
After today, after today consider me gone
Gone, gone, gone

You can't say that, you can't say that
You can't say that, you can't say that

Roses have thorns and shining waters mud
Cancer lurks deep in the sweetest bud
Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks of the wrongs we have done
After today, after today consider me gone

I've spent too many years at war with myself
The doctor has told me it's no good for my health
To search for perfection is all very well
But to look for heaven is to live here in hell

After today, after today, after today consider me gone, consider me gone
Consider me, consider me, consider me gone, gone, gone, gone, yeah


Marci bien

A fatal fascination for the seedy part of town
You walk down the street and your head spins round, round
Don't be seen alone without your friends at night
Take a gun, take a knife to the low life

You don't have to be born into this society
You pay for love but the hate comes free
So bring enough money for the rest of your life
Don't bring your wife to the low life

Bringing yourself to the degradation
Always keep your back to the wall
No rewards for your infatuation
Low life - no life at all
Low life, low life

Been here too long to be afraid anymore
You can't reach the bed so you sleep on the floor
You get so stoned you think you could fly
But you won't get high on the low

Low life, low life
Low life is no life
Low life is no life

A fatal fascination for the seedy part of town
You walk down the street but your head spins around and round
Don't be seen alone without your friends at night
Take a gun, take a knife to the low life

Low life is no life
Low life is no life


Thank you

This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it would
It's hard for us to understand
We can't give up our jobs the way we should
Our blood has stained the coal
We tunneled deep inside the nations soul
We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power's to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together

The seam lies underground
Three million years of pressure packed it down
And we walk through ancient forest lands
And light a thousand cities with our hands
Your dark satanic mills
Have made redundant all our mining skills
You can't exchange a six inch band
For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together

Our conscious lives run deep
You cling onto your mountain while we sleep
This way of life is part of me
There is no price, so only let me be
And should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
When you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into place, into place

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together

How can you say that you're not responsible
What does it have to do with me
What is my reaction, what should it be
Confronted by this latest atrocity

Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears

Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existance is reduced to a shallow meaningless party
Seems that when some innocent die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
This is what we've seen

Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears

Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world, who knows what to do

Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears
Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears

Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears
Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears

Tied to the tracks and the train's just coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
Don't mess around with the demolition man

Tied to a chair and the bomb is ticking
The situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
Don't mess around with the demolition man

I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into a room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man

Tied to a chair and the bomb is ticking
The situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
Don't mess around with the demolition man

You come to me like a moth to the flame
It's love you need but I don't play that game
Cos you could be my greatest fan
I'm nobody's friend, I'm a demolition man

Walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into a room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
Walking disaster, a demolition man

Demolition man, demolition man, demolition man, demolition man
Demolition man, demolition man, demolition man, demolition man
Demolition man, demolition man

It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
Gets a little closer everyday

One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us

It's a subject we rarely mention
But when we do we have this little invention
Pretending they're a different world from me
I show my responsibility, I say

One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us

Lines are drawn upon the world
Before we get our flags unfurled
Whichever one we pick
It's just a self deluding trick, I say

One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us - I say, one world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us

One world is enough
One world is enough for all of us, yeah
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough

It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
It gets a little closer everyday, I say

One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us

One world is enough for all of us - one world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us - one world, one world
One world is enough for all of us - one world, one world
One world is enough for all of us

In the empire of the senses you're the queen of all you survey
All the cities, all the nations, everything that falls your way
I say, there is a deeper world than this that you don't understand
There is a deeper world that this tugging at your hand

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see
I say, there is a deeper wave than this swelling in the world
There is a deeper wave than this, listen to me girl

Feel it rising in the city, feel it sweeping over land
Over borders, over frontiers, nothing will its power withstand
I say, there is no deeper wave than this rising in the world
There is no deeper wave than this, listen to me girl

One world is enough, one world is enough
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough, one world is enough
One world is enough for all of us

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see
All the bloodshed, all the anger, all the weapons, all the greed
All the armies, all the missiles, all the symbols of our fear

There is a deeper wave than this rising in the world
There is a deeper wave than this, listen to me girl
There is a deeper wave than this rising in the world
There is a deeper wave than this, listen to me girl

I say, love is the seventh wave
I say, love is the seventh wave
I say, love is the seventh wave
I say, love is the seventh wave
I say, love is the seventh wave
I say, love is the seventh wave
I say, love is the seventh wave
I say, love is the seventh wave

One world is enough, one world is enough
One world is enough for all of us, yeah
One world is enough, one world is enough
One world is enough for all of us, yeah

One world is enough, one world is enough
One world is enough for all of us, yeah
One world is enough, one world is enough
One world is enough for all of us, yeah

One world is enough, one world is enough
One world is enough for all of us, yeah
One world is enough, one world is enough
One world is enough for all of us, yeah

One world, one world is, one world is enough for all of us
One world, one world is, one world is enough for all of us
One world, one world is, one world is enough for all of us
One world, one world is, one world is enough for all of us

There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight
I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight
I've no choice but to follow that call
The bright lights, the people and the moon and all
I pray everyday to be strong
For I know what I do must be wrong
Oh, you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over Bourbon Street

It was many years ago that I became what I am
I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb
Now I can never show my face at noon
And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon
The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast
I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest
Oh, you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over Bourbon Street

She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans
She's innocent and young, from a family of means
I have stood many times outside her window at night
To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight
How could I be this way when I pray to god above
I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love
Oh, you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over Bourbon Street

Now that I have found you
In the coolth of your evening smile
With 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 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 my head
I burn for you, I burn for you

Stars will fall from dark skies
As ancient rocks are turning
The quiet fills the room
And your love flows through me
Though I lie here so still
I burn for you, I burn for you, I burn for

I burn for you, I burn for you
I burn for you, I burn for you

Every day, every day and every day
Every day, every day
Every day

Every 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 - bye, bye

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 Bellophiles 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 - bye, bye

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 Bellophiles 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 - bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye, bye, another day's gone by
Bye, bye, another day's gone by
Bye, bye, another day's gone by
Bye, bye, another day's gone by

Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen
Marching through countries they'd never seen
Virgins with rifles, game of charades
All for a children's crusade

Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Midnight in Soho, nineteen eighty four
Fixing in doorways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, such bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me, woo
I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me, no
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

I will call every day
Come stay home at night
No matter how hard I try to please her
She just don't treat me right
I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

I bought her a fur coat for Christmas
And a diamond ring
She's got the nerve to tell me
Our love don't mean a thing
I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me, no
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea
Come on, Ken

Down so long, down so long, oh
I've been down so long
I've been down so long
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

On the saxaphone, Branford Marsalis
On the bass, Darryl Jones
On clavier, Kenny Kirkland
On the drums, Omar Hakim

Down, down, down
Down so long, down so long
Down so long, down so long, yeah

I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue
Take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue
Take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea


Get up

My sisters and I
Have one wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
Wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

Sky turned to black
Would he ever come back
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups still full of sand

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you, you