Nostradamus

[lapfog_1]

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, 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 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 Paul 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


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I've always wondered who the "two great men yet brothers not make the north united" were going to be.

Now I'm wondering if there might have been a mis-translation of "great"... and that we finally have the "two important men" in Donald Trump and Vlad Putin. And if this does signify the end of the "centuries" as prophecy by Nostradamus.

Posting here because I really don't believe in Nostradamus... but the song has haunted me since I first heard it in 1974.

[Mister Ed]

1. A beautiful song, but, to my mind...

It's far outshone by "Roads to Moscow" from the same album.

[d_r]

2. I took it as

John F. and Robert Kennedy.

[lapfog_1]

3. no, those appear in the same quatrain

"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"

Jack and Bobby (born to rule)... and perhaps Ted (although it is hard to argue that he died early)