Al Stewart - Nostradamus

In the east the wind is blowing the boats across the sea


And their sails will fill the morning and their cries ring out to me


Oh, Oh


Oh, the more it changes, the more it stays the same


And the hand just re-arranges the players in the game



Oh, I had a dream, it seemed I stood alone


And the veil of all the years


Goes sinking from my eyes like a stone



A king shall fall and put to death by the English parliament shall be


Fire and plague to London come in the year of six and twenties three


An emperor of France shall rise who will be born near Italy


His rule shall cost his empire dear, Napoloron his name shall be


From Castile does Franco come and the Government driven out shall be


An English king seeks divorce, and from his throne cast down is he


One named Hister shall become a captain of Greater Germany


No law does this man observe and bloody his rise and fall shall be



Man, man, your time is sand, your ways are leaves upon the sea


I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me


Man, man, your time is sand, your ways are leaves upon the sea


I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me



In the new lands of America three brothers now shall come to power


Two alone are born to rule but all must die before their hour


Two great men yet brothers not make the north united stand


Its power be seen to grow, and fear possess the eastern lands


Three leagues from the gates of Rome a Pope named Pol is doomed to die


A great wall that divides a city at this time is cast aside


These are the signs I bring to you to show you when the time is nigh


Man, man, your time is sand, your ways are leaves upon the sea


I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me