[ti:I Was Brought To My Senses] [ar:Sting] [al:Mercury Falling] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Was Brought To My Senses - Sting [00:01.20]Written by:Sting [00:02.40]Alone with my thoughts this evening [00:07.74]I walked on the banks of tone [00:14.19]I wondered how I could win you [00:20.83]Or if I could make you mine [00:26.14]Or if I could make you mine [00:32.85]The wind it was so insistent [00:38.99]With tales of a stormy south [00:45.40]But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree [00:51.13]There came a dryness in my mouth [00:56.64]Came a dryness in my mouth [01:03.38]For then without rhyme or reason [01:09.64]The two birds did rise up to fly [01:16.84]And where the two birds were flying [01:23.70]I swear I saw you and I [01:29.72]I swear I saw you and I [02:02.71]I walked out this morning [02:05.13]It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes [02:08.82]For the first time I saw the work of heaven [02:11.60]In the line where the hills had been married to the sky [02:15.30]And all around me [02:17.58]Every blade of singing grass [02:20.85]Was calling out your name [02:23.82]And that our love would always last [02:27.40]And inside every turning leaf [02:30.09]Is the pattern of an older tree [02:33.77]The shape of our future [02:36.28]The shape of all our history [02:39.94]And out of the confusion [02:42.42]Where the river meets the sea [02:45.65]Came things I'd never seen [02:48.88]Things I'd no seen [02:51.28]I was brought to my senses [02:57.40]I was blind but now that I can see [03:03.62]Every signpost in nature [03:10.09]Said you belong to me [03:15.07]I know its true [03:16.74]Its written in a sky as blue [03:19.91]As blue as your eyes [03:22.88]As blue as your eyes [03:26.10]If natures red in tooth and claw [03:29.09]Like winters freeze and summers thaw [03:32.85]The wounds she gave me [03:35.31]Were the wounds that would heal me [03:38.52]And wed be like the moon and sun [03:41.66]And when our courtly dance had run [03:44.36]Its course across the sky [03:47.76]Then together we would lie [03:51.43]And out of the confusion [03:54.01]Where the river meets the sea [03:56.99]Something new would arrive [04:00.18]Something better would arrive [04:02.81]I was brought to my senses [04:08.97]I was blind but now that I can see [04:15.15]Every signpost in nature [04:21.71]Said you belong to me [04:28.66]I was brought to my senses [04:33.79]I was blind but now that I can see [04:40.03]Every signpost in nature [04:46.49]Said you belong to me [05:17.47]I was brought to my senses [05:23.62]I was blind but now that I can see [05:29.60]Every signpost in nature [05:36.31]Said you belong to me