Sting

After the Rain Has Fallen * Desert Rose * The Lazarus Heart

After the Rain Has Fallen

The palace guards are all sleeping 
Their fires burn into the night 
There's a threat of rain on the dark horizon 
And all that's left is a quarter moon of light
 
He climbs up through the darkness 
No weapon but his surprise 
The greatest thief in the high Sahara 
Enters the room where a sleeping princess lies
 
All your money, your pretty necklace 
This is my work on such a night 
There's a storm coming over the mountain
I'll be gone long before the morning
 
After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes 
You find that I've taken nothing that 
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye
 
He was as gentle as the night wind 
As no lover had been before 
And the rings she wore for her bridegroom 
Slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor 
 
Take me with you, take me with you 
Before my lonely life is set 
I've been promised to another 
To a man I've never even met
 
After the rain has fallen 
After the tears have washed your eyes 
You'll find that I've taken nothing that 
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye
After the thunder's spoken and
After the lightning bolt's been hurled 
After the dream is broken
There'll still be love in the world
 
She said take me to another life 
Take me for a pirate’s wife 
Take me where the wind blows 
Take me where the red wine flows 
Take me to the danger 
Take me to the life of crime 
Take me to the stars 
Take me to the moon while we still have time
 
After the rain has fallen 
After the tears have washed your eyes 
You'll find that I've taken nothing that 
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye
 
After the thunder's spoken and 
After the lightning bolt's been hurled
After the dream is broken
There'll still be love in the world 
Still be love in the world

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Desert Rose

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of fire
Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire

This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

And as she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realize that nothing's as it seems

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of rain
I lift my gaze to empty skies above
I close my eyes, this rare perfume
Is the sweet intoxication of her love

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

Sweet desert rose
This memory of Eden haunts us all
This desert flower, this rare perfume
Is the sweet intoxication of the fall

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The Lazarus Heart
Written by - Sting
From - Nothing Like the Sun

He looked beneath his shirt today
There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
He turned around to face his mother
To show her the wound in his breast 
That burned like a brand
But the sword that cut him open
Was the sword in his mother's hand

Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart

Though the sword was his protection
The wound itself would give him power
The power to remake himself at the time of his darkest hour
She said the wound would give him courage and pain
The kind of pain that you can't hide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside

Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart

Birds on the roof of my mother's house
I've no stones that chase them away
Birds on the roof of my mother's house
Will sit on my roof someday
They fly at the window, they fly at the door
Where does she get the strength to fight them anymore
She counts all her children as a shield against the rain
Lifts her eyes to the sky like a flower to the rain

Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart

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