Bruce Cockburn piosenki

Sable sky anoints the earth with crystal 'neath my foot wide-eyed, white-plumed owl plays upon his magic flute silver-circled moonlight cresting waves of shadow blue, and the river is secretly flowing shining stars dance high above the cobweb treelimbs' g...

Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the politics of panic would invite? Person in the street shrugs -- "Security comes f...

They turned their backs I made it too hard Every place they touched me Is a laceration now Sometimes a wind comes out of nowhere And knocks you off your feet And look, see my tears They fill the whole night sky The whole night sky Derailed and despe...

Rain rings trash can bells and what do you know my alley becomes a cathedral eyes can be archways to enter or leave by vacuum's replaced by a crystal o Jesus don't let Toronto take my song away it's easy to love if you let yourself love it but like...

Through rutted winding streets of Kathmandu dodging crowded humans cows dogs rickshaws -- storefronts constellated pools of bluewhite bright against darkening walls. The butterfly sparkle in my lasered eye still seems to hold that last shot of red sun th...

(CHORUS:) Tie me at the crossroads when I die Hang me in the wind 'til I get good and dry And the kids that pass can scratch their heads And say "who was that guy?" Tie me at the crossroads when I die Looking outward see what you can see By the time yo...

Endless silver Wave forms crash in Sea's too big to fit in my heart Nothings too big to fit in my heart Seas come, seas go Where they stood deserts flow Time's too big to fit in the brain Nothing's too big to fit in my heart Spacetime strings bend World with...

Rising like lightspill from this sleeping town like the light in a lover's eyes rising from the hearts of the sleepers all around all those dreamers trying to light the sky burning -- all night long burning -- at the gates of dawn singing -- near and fa...

So many things to see in this old world but all I can see is you in a crowded subway train or walking in the country rain you're there with me too of all the songs sung in any day your voice is all I hear for though each song has its own place and, fi...

They're getting prepared to haul a car out of the river Noise and smoke and concrete seem to be going on forever Grinding gears and drivers getting high on exhaust i'm thinking about the water down below and what got lost Pachinko jingle and space torpedo...

Tried and tested Tried and tested By the cries of birds By the lies I've heard By my own loose talk By the way I walk By the claws of beasts By the laws of priests By the glutton's feast By the word police By the planet's arc By the falling dark By the sta...

Away from the river Away from the smoke of the burning Fearful survivors Subject of government directives One sad guitar note Echoes of the wall of the jungle Seen from the air they're just targets with nowhere to run to Children of rape Raised on mal...

High above valley above deep shade coloured with the calls of cuckoos, the ring of coppersmith's hammer... high in the hiss of the wind, wind filled with spirits and bright with the jangle of horse bells... after a crisp night crammed with stars it's mo...

Up on the hillside you can see the cross shine out in the alley hear the hungry dog whine you and i, friend, sit waiting for a sign see how the sunset makes the lake look like wine. over the mountain i can hear myself called i want to come running but my...

There's a black and white crow on the back of a two toned sheep in a field of broken yellow stalks below looming cliffs high above the plain little grey houses blend with giant jagged boulders and pale weathered stumps life in the ghost of the bush wind...

Vagabondage la danse du paysage et dans les nuages le decoupage d'un tour billon avec des naufrages vagabondage toujours en route nous sommes encore en route on joue du tambour on joue de la flute comme l'eau qui bondit d'une chute nous sommes en r...

Look at them working in the hot sun the pilloried saints and the fallen ones working and waiting for the night to come and waiting for a miracle Somewhere out there is a place that's cool where peace and balance are the rule working toward a future like...

Body lines fluid in static heat Thoughts buzzing like flies around meat land here -- land there -- Quick circles in the air I'm riding smooth but just a little slow Waiting for the moon to show Leather-faced old men by the cafe wall Kids in the surf sp...

Neon flame on the window of an upstairs room helicopter beats across the face of the moon got a hunger that sprawls like this galaxy want to wrap my arms around you -- draw you right inside me i want to go walking with you Judy through the movie of the...

Disharmony gives way to mute helplessness not enough communication too much not expressed it's all to easy to let go of hope to think there's nothing worth saving and let it all go up in smoke what about the the bond (Chorus:) what about the mysti...