Sting — The Book of My Life

[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