Released: December 15, 2014
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: Rob Mathes
[Intro]
What say you Meg?
[Verse]
There's an house on the hill that's come off for sale
It's a place I have known since I was a lad
And it needs only a carpenter an hour and a nail
Whit the spur of the boy of dream I've always had
I climbed up the hill with the evening news
I've been sent from the town to deliver
And I stand in the porch and gaze at the views
Until my eyes are bruised by the sunset's glow and the river
I'd imagined a girl with whom share my life
As dreamers are all tempted to do
And the face I always come up
Was no one else but you
[Chorus 1]
What say you Meg?
What's the story's ending
I want you Meg
By my side
What's the use Meg
To gaze at the view on your own?
[Chorus 2]
For rich or for poorer
In sickness in health
I will see this through Meg
No chance of this ending
Such a view Meg
As we gaze
From the house on the hill
[Bridge]
To love and to cherish
To heaven to odd
I'm a hard man to beat
If I'm maybe so bored
[Chorus 3]
And I promise it all by the sword of my brow
Tell me what say you Meg now?
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
[Chorus 3]
What say you Meg?
[Verse]
There's an house on the hill that's come off for sale
It's a place I have known since I was a lad
And it needs only a carpenter an hour and a nail
Whit the spur of the boy of dream I've always had
I climbed up the hill with the evening news
I've been sent from the town to deliver
And I stand in the porch and gaze at the views
Until my eyes are bruised by the sunset's glow and the river
I'd imagined a girl with whom share my life
As dreamers are all tempted to do
And the face I always come up
Was no one else but you
[Chorus 1]
What say you Meg?
What's the story's ending
I want you Meg
By my side
What's the use Meg
To gaze at the view on your own?
[Chorus 2]
For rich or for poorer
In sickness in health
I will see this through Meg
No chance of this ending
Such a view Meg
As we gaze
From the house on the hill
[Bridge]
To love and to cherish
To heaven to odd
I'm a hard man to beat
If I'm maybe so bored
[Chorus 3]
And I promise it all by the sword of my brow
Tell me what say you Meg now?
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
[Chorus 3]
more tracks from the album
The Last Ship (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
- August Winds
- We’ve Got Now’t Else
- The Last Ship (Part One)
- When We Dance (Broadway Cast Version)
- So to Speak (Broadway Cast Version)
- It’s Not the Same Moon (Broadway Version)
- Underground River
- The Last Ship (Finale)
- Dead Man’s Boots (Broadway Version)
- Sail Away
- Ghost Story (Broadway Version)
- The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance
- What Say You Meg (Single Version)
- If You Ever See Me Talking to a Sailor
- What Say You Meg?
- Island of Souls (Broadway Version)
- All This Time (Broadway Version)
- Shipyard
- Show Some Respect (Broadway Version)
- Mrs. Dees’ Rant
From the album
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