Jeremiah Blues (Part 1) - Lyrics by Sting


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It was midnight, midnight at noon

Everyone talked in rhyme

Everyone saw the big clock ticking

Nobody knew, nobody knew the time


Elegant debutantes smiled

Everyone fought for dimes

Newspapers screamed for blood

It was the best of times


Every place around the world it seemed the same

Can't hear the rhythm for the drums

Everybody wants to look the other way

When something wicked this way comes


Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree

Sometimes I stare

Sometimes it's me


Everyone told the truth

All that we heard were lies
A pope claimed that he'd been wrong in the past

This was a big surprise


Everyone fell in love
A cardinal's wife was jailed

The government saved a dying planet

When popular icons failed


Every place around the world it seemed the same

Can't hear the rhythm for the drums

Everybody wants to look the other way

When something wicked this way comes


Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree

Sometimes I stare

Sometimes it's me

Sometimes I stare

Sometimes it's me
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