Nostradamus Lyrics - Al Stewart

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, 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 cost his empire dear, Napoleon 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 Germanie 

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 

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