Released: September 29, 2003
Featuring: Anoushka Shankar
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: Kipper Sting
[Verse 1]
Let me watch by the fire and remember my days
And it may be a trick of the firelight
But the flickering pages that trouble my sight
Is a book I'm afraid to write
It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life
And it's cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife
And it's all there to see as the section reveals
There's some sorrow in every life
If it reads like a puzzle, a wandering maze
Then I won't understand 'til the end of my days
I'm still forced to remember
Remember the words of my life
[Verse 2]
There are promises broken and promises kept
Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept
There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess
If I lose everything that I possess
There's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die
There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry
There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies
[Chorus]
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
[Verse 3]
There's a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons
There are pages of conflicts that nobody won
And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat
There's a page where we fail to meet
There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be planned
There's a chapter on god that I don't understand
There's a promise of Heaven and Hell but I'm damned if I see
[Chorus]
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
[Bridge]
Now the daylight's returning
And if one sentence is true
All these pages are burning
And all that's left is you
[Chorus]
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
Let me watch by the fire and remember my days
And it may be a trick of the firelight
But the flickering pages that trouble my sight
Is a book I'm afraid to write
It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life
And it's cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife
And it's all there to see as the section reveals
There's some sorrow in every life
If it reads like a puzzle, a wandering maze
Then I won't understand 'til the end of my days
I'm still forced to remember
Remember the words of my life
[Verse 2]
There are promises broken and promises kept
Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept
There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess
If I lose everything that I possess
There's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die
There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry
There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies
[Chorus]
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
[Verse 3]
There's a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons
There are pages of conflicts that nobody won
And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat
There's a page where we fail to meet
There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be planned
There's a chapter on god that I don't understand
There's a promise of Heaven and Hell but I'm damned if I see
[Chorus]
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
[Bridge]
Now the daylight's returning
And if one sentence is true
All these pages are burning
And all that's left is you
[Chorus]
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Sacred Love (2003)
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