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Sting – All This Time (4:54)

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All This Time is a 1991 single by Sting. It was first released on Sting’s 1991 album The Soul Cages. The song was the first single from album.

Being the album’s most radio friendly track, the song was a chart success, especially on the American charts, where it reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts.

The lyrics are a flashback to Sting’s childhood where he is dealing with the death of his father and wishes to bury him at sea instead of going through the Catholic rites. Despite the dark lyrics, the jolly tune of the song foils their macabre undertone:

“It’s about the death of my father, so its pretty dark as a record but on this song the words are foiled by this fairly jolly tune. That’s something I like to do quite a lot, combine dark subject matter with up music. No, its not based on a dream. The lyrics seem surreal, but they are all images I remembered from my home town: ferries, priests, shire horses. I grew up by the shipyards. I just wanted to escape. I suppose it was quite a surreal place, though. It is the landscape of my dreams”

The song usually opened the set on the Soul Cages tour. After this, the song was not played for several years till the Brand New Day tour, when it reclaimed its place in the set list. The song lent its name to the …All This Time live album which was recorded on the 11th of September, 2001 at Sting’s villa in Tuscany.
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  • ...All This Time
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  • Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994
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  • The Soul Cages
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  • All This Time
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  • Oregon_Myst

    "Jazz it up" is a phrase that shouldn't have been applied to this song...[2]

    25 days ago

  • Lizbeast

    Agree with pjperezvegas :/ This totally ruins the song for me.

    November 2011

  • Wallensteinfan

    <3

    October 2011

  • Ulrich29

    einfach und echt gut!!

    October 2011

  • pjperezvegas

    The original recording of this song was great, moody, appropriate for the lyrics. Why Sting has to "funk" up this stuff live, I don't understand.

    September 2011

  • ROCKPOPCLASSIC

    G****

    June 2011

  • bigmanbmoney

    i believe this is what Stewart is talking about when he says "Sting's whole jazzy, rock-lite" direction..

    March 2011

  • kikikirsche

    ♪♫♥♪♫♪♥ loveeee

    December 2010

  • wack1985

    lmbo at the post below mine! honestly!

    November 2010

  • honeycone42

    PLEASE DON'T READ THIS. YOU WILL BE KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE.TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. NOW YOU'VE STARTED READING THIS. DON'T STOP. THIS IS SO FREAKY. 1. say your name 10 times 2. say your mom's name 5 times 3. say your crushes name 3 times 4. paste this to 4 other songs. if you do this, your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday. but if you read this and do not paste this, then you will have very bad luck. SEND THIS TO 5 SONGS IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN YOU'RE DONE PRESS F6 AND YOUR CRUSH'S NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS ON THE SCREEN. THIS IS SO FREAKY BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORK ”

    September 2010

  • wibble420

    "Jazz it up" is a phrase that shouldn't have been applied to this song...

    July 2010

  • AnissaRose

    Can't top the original studio version!

    July 2010

  • Marjo47

    Good track!

    June 2010

  • crios54

    Can't top the original studio version!

    May 2010

  • yellymack

    I love this song....well, I like the original better.

    February 2010

  • urbanrockergirl

    Sting is a genius when it's about to create a great instrumental composition. This song simply spreads joy =)

    December 2009

  • gwydionoffaerie

    "all this time the river flowed endlessly like a silent tear" "teachers told us, the Romans built this place...all that was left were the stones the workmen found " LOL!! So freaking brilliant!

    December 2009

  • BigBear67

    This jazzy version blows.

    October 2009

  • malungo100

    nicht schlecht ''

    October 2009

  • memoryoftrees

    This version sounds very odd. It tends to sound almost like a jazz version of this song.

    October 2009
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