Bruce Cockburn piosenki

Way out on the rim of the galaxy The gifts of the Lord lie torn Into whose charge the gifts were given Have made it a curse for so many to be born This is my trouble -- These were my fathers So how am I supposed to feel? Way out on the rim of the broken...

From the lying mirror to the movement of stars Everybody's looking for who they are Those who know don't have the words to tell And the ones with the words don't know too well (CHORUS:) Could be the famine Could be the feast Could be the pusher Could...

Look away across the bay yankee gunboat come this way Uncle Sam gonna save the day come tomorrow we all gonna pay (Chorus:) and it's burn baby burn when am I going to get my turn something dead under the bed local diplomats hang their heads never mind...

Padded with power here they come international loan sharks backed by the guns of market hungry military profiteers whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared with the blood of the poor who rob life of its quality who render rage a necessity by tur...

When you ride out of the shining sky to claim the ones who love you Can i go with you Can i go with you When the angel shouts from the heart of the sun and the living water flows down Can i go with you Can i go with you When the earth and stars melt...

Sun climbs toward high noon, Glints metallic off the bowl of the spoon Sliding through the air toward parted lips Watch the expression when the straight taste hits Face crumples, tongue's quickly withdrawn I hate to tell you but the candy man's gone Oh...

Living in the past is not living at all the old fear going fast everybody's scared to fall turn with the times change your mind sullen and profane the ancient temple stands dissolving in the rain its gods long turned to sand forgotten childhood rhym...

I love the pounding of hooves I love engines that roar I love the wild music of waves on the shore And the spiral perfection of a hawk when it soars Love my sweet woman down to the core There's roads and there's roads And they call, can't you hear it?...

Fire-bright faces in winter night a dog in the distance barks the sky speaks in patterns of starlight the fire replies in sparks the stream is a motionless moment salmon in the sea swims deep pregnant with force as a prayer is spring in the hard earth...

I need a helmet to protect my head I need earphones to hear what gets said I need a miracle to keep this little thread from snapping I know a lot about alienated man But we've all heard as much about that as we can stand It's just what happens when you l...

You tell me tomorrow may be coming Sometimes I wonder if it hasn't already been But like the firebreathing rebel I'm not sure what I mean All I know is you're not me and that you'll never be He tells me the future is not to be believed in "Don't waste your wi...

There you go Swimming deeper into mystery Here I remain Only seeing where you used to be Stared at the ceiling 'Til my ears filled up with tears Never got to know you Suddenly you're out of here (CHORUS:) Gone from mystery into mystery Gone from day...

I was up all night, socializing Trying to keep the latent depression from crystalizing Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon And you're not even here On the coldest night of the year. I took in Yonge Street at a glance Heard the pu...

Centred on silence counting on nothing i saw you standing on the sea and everything was dark except for sparks the wind struck from your hair sparks that turned to wings around you angel voices mixed with seabird cries fields of motion surging outwar...

Mary grows a child without the help of a man Joseph get upset because he doesn't understand Angel comes to Joseph in a powerful dream Says "God did this and you're part of his scheme" Joseph comes to Mary with his hat in his hand Says "forgive me I though...

Praying mantis on screen canoes prowl reef in early morning sun as it flashes on the rhythmic fall of weed cutter's cutlass blade everybody's got something to sell besides the obvious dollars and dope aloe rub, starfish, vegetable patties, braid your hair...

Deja vu glass cafe faces fade into the wash of brick-dust-yellow afternoon deja vu slow lines on pages shape words like echoes of a ball bounced in an empty street deja vu sun on hair dancing to breeze-borne snatches of a lost music box melody  

She said she wanted me I had to let her know It was never meant to be And she had to let it go She was pissed and hurting but What was I supposed to do? I did not love her But it's different when it comes to you Lamentations everywhere All the covers turned t...

In front of a newborn moon pushing up its glistening dome. i kiss these departing companions -- take the next step alone. I just said goodnight to the closest thing i have to home oh -- and the night grows sharp and hollow as a junky's craving vein and i...

Don't want to be on no rooftop frying in the afternoon sun don't want to sit by no fountain listening to the man-made stream run just want to stand where the sea-spray gleams like fire with you and i don't have to tell you why. don't want to go to no p...