[00:17.991]Long ago I heard a tale I never will forget[00:21.556]The time was in the telling on the bank the scene was set[00:25.417]The sky was rolling blindly on, the daylight had not gone[00:29.134]She washed her hair among the stones and saw what was to come[00:36.101]All this will pass[00:40.691]There will be blood among the corn and heroes in the hills[00:44.448]But there is more to come my boy before you've had your fill[00:48.408]Men will come and rape the soil as though it were their own[00:52.067]And they will bathe their feet in oil as I have bathed my own[00:58.938]All this will pass[01:02.737]All things must come[01:06.587]Just as I tell you here[01:11.224]Stones will stand together as if searching for the stars[01:14.958]And all come crashing down again before they reach too far[01:18.720]She turned to face the setting sun, I turned to walk away[01:22.560]But then she called my name again and beckoned me to stay[01:29.375]All this will pass[01:33.175]All things must come[01:37.003]Just as I tell you here[01:41.655]She told me of the famous sons who write their names in peace[01:45.379]Yet be cut down before the time has come for our release[01:52.572]Just as I tell you here[01:57.077]Even now I wait for the coming day[02:04.561]Even now she waits in the dawn[02:11.635]For the tales she tells, for the gifts that she will sell[02:19.514]For the sight she knows, for a vision that still grows[02:26.849]With the dream in her eyes no one's seen[03:05.511]I listened for so long that day that I can hardly tell[03:09.218]If what she said was heaven sent or brought to bear in hell[03:13.048]That men of hope would stand alone and still be cast a lie[03:16.831]Just as Romans cast them on the day they were to die[03:23.641]All this will pass[03:27.449]All things must come[03:31.340]Just as I tell you here[03:36.026]Even now I wait for the coming day[03:43.639]Even now she waits in the dawn[03:50.848]For the tales she tells, for the gifts that she will sell[03:58.440]For the sight she knows, for a vision that still grows[04:05.868]With the dream in her eyes no one's seen