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Artist/Band: Sting
Lyrics for Song: History Will Teach Us Nothing
Lyrics for Album: Nothing Like The Sun [1987]



If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past

Security in human systems we're told will always always last

Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast

Without a breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast



If God is dead and an actor plays his part

His words of fear will find their way to a place in your heart

Without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse

Without freedom from the past things can only get worse



Sooner or later just like the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later just like the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away



History will teach us nothing

History will teach us nothing



Our written history is a catalogue of crime

The sordid and the powerful, the architects of time

The mother of invention, the oppression of the mild

The constant fear of scarcity, aggression as its child



Sooner or later

Sooner or later

Sooner or later

Sooner or later



Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong

Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long

A simple act of faith

In reason over might

To blow up his children will only prove him right

History will teach us nothing



Sooner or later the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away



History will teach us nothing

History will teach us nothing



Know you human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for


Album Lyrics: Nothing Like The Sun [1987]


Sting
"Nothing Like The Sun [1987]"


1. Lazarus Heart
2. History Will Teach Us Nothing
3. Straight To My Heart
4. Rock Steady
5. Sister Moon
6. Little Wing