I WAS BROUGHT TO MY SENSES
Sting


intro 1

Alone with my thoughts this evening
I walked on the banks of Tyne
I wondered how I can win you
or if I could make you mine
or if I could make you mine

The wind it was so insistent
With tales of a stormy south
But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
There came a dryness in my mouth
Came a dryness in my mouth

For then without rhyme or reason
The two birds did rise up and fly
And where the two birds were flying
I swear I saw you and I
I swear I saw you and I

intro 2

verse 1
I walked out this morning
it was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
For the first time I saw the work of heaven
in the line where the hills had been married to the sky
And all around me
ev'ry blade of singing grass
was calling out your name
and that our love would always last

verse 2
And inside ev'ry turning leaf
is the pattern of an older tree
the shape of our future
the shape of all our history
And out of the confusion
where the river meets the sea
came things I'd never seen
things I'd never seen

chorus 1
I was brought to my senses
I was blind now that I can see
ev'ry signpost in nature
said you be...

verse 3
...long to me
I know it's true
It's written in a sky as blue
As blue as your eyes, as blue as your eyes
If nature's red in tooth and claw
Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw
The wounds she gave me
Were the wounds that would heal me

verse 4
And we'd be like the moon and sun
And when our courtly dance had run
it's course across the sky
Then together we would lie
And out of the confusion
where the river meets the sea
Something new would arrive
Something better would arrive

chorus 2
I was brought to my senses
I was blind now that I can see
ev'ry signpost in nature
said you belong to

intro 3
(bass solo)

chorus 3
I was brought to my senses
I was blind now that I can see
ev'ry signpost in nature
said you belong to
I was brought to my senses
I was blind now that I can see
ev'ry signpost in nature
said you belong to me



(Contributed by Philip Graves)