Released: June 1, 1985
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: Pete Smith Sting
[Verse 1]
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 shelf loads of care
But whoever came calling
Found nobody there
[Chorus]
After today, consider me gone
[Verse 2]
Roses have thorns, and shining waters mud
And 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
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
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 shelf loads of care
But whoever came calling
Found nobody there
[Chorus]
After today, consider me gone
[Verse 2]
Roses have thorns, and shining waters mud
And 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
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
more tracks from the album
Bring on the Night
- Love Is the Seventh Wave
- Tea in the Sahara
- Down So Long
- Another Day
- I Burn for You
- One World (Not Three)
- Driven to Tears
- Low Life
- When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
- Bring on the Night
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Consider Me Gone
- We Work the Black Seam
- Children’s Crusade
- The Dream of the Blue Turtles/Demolition Man
From the albums
- The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985)
- Bring on the Night (1986)
Sting popular songs
- Shape of My Heart
- Englishman in New York
- Desert Rose
- Fields of Gold
- Fragile
- Russians
- It’s Probably Me
- If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Brand New Day
- Seven Days
- Mad About You
- A Thousand Years
- Soul Cake
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- All This Time
- When We Dance
- If It’s Love
- The Last Ship
- Fortress Around Your Heart
- Children’s Crusade
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Synchronicity I
- Giacomo’s Blues