Bruce Cockburn

(CHORUS:) When you've got a dream like mine Nobody can take you down When you've got a dream like mine Nobody can push you around Today I dream of how it used to be Things were different before The picture shifts to how it's going to be Balance restor...

Sky-wild far cry wings-slash-free Christ is born for you and me wind rush reed bend storm tossed sea... Christ is nailed upon a tree mists part sunrise Shining Key... Christ is risen to lead us free.  

Can't trace this conversation -- words fragment and fall into blue shadows by a white-baked wall. through shimmering spaces a single thrush calls -- a song when it's over is no song at all. (Chorus:) and you know I long to feel that sail leaping in the...

I turned on the TV war news just to look and wonder why. Thunder crashed and red flash-flowers bloomed a nightmare in the sky. So i went down to the cafe just to string myself along. On the way i found some riches -- played the jukebox, got this song....

After rain in the streets light flows like blood -- I can just taste salt on the humid wind. Here comes that gasoline spreading hungry rainbow over shiny black tar. I'm blown like smoke and blind as wind except for when your love breaks in. Maybe to t...

All the diamonds in this world that mean anything to me are conjured up by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea i ran aground in a harbour town lost the taste for being free thank God He sent some gull-chased ship to carry me to sea two thousand ye...

The hills are full of secrets Owls watch by night Down in town the bars are full And the drunks are picking fights These are things I know But the facts are filtered through All the ways I want you 2:19 freight train Moaning somewhere near I see you...

Blue billboard on the roof next door makes a square of light on the kitchen floor smokes rises from a cigarette there's a dull glisten where the table's wet soft breath rises from the bed a thousand question marks over my head turn on the tube but there...

Some things in life are bad, They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble, give a whistle! And this'll help things turn out for the best And Always look on the bright side of...

Midnight flight Fullmoon light Laughter in the air It's a party all right Slate-blue clouds Iridescent sea I'm heading for you And you're headed for me and we dance and we dance and we dance... Down there in the realm of power Somebody's manicured...

You could have gone off the Bloor St. viaduct i could have been run down in the street you could have got botulism anytime i could have gone overboard into the sea Anything can happen to put out the light, is it any wonder i don't want to say goodnight...

Arrows of light come pierce my soul pierce my soul breath of the bright wind make us one make us one life is singing like a great bell ringing  

Got to New York this mornin', just about half-past nine Got to New York this mornin', just about half-past nine Hollerin' one mornin' in Avalon, couldn't hardly keep from cryin' Avalon, my hometown, always on my mind Avalon, my hometown, always on my mind Pre...

Mon corps se pence, ma main s'entends, prends du gravier un morcean blanc de coquille. pour un instant un mugissement; l'antique mer rempli cet espace qui a ete le mien. lozanges mobiles, des herbes flottantes; un cri soudain d'oiseau flamboie au...

There's a knot in my gut As I gaze out today On the planes of the city All polychrome grey When the skin is peeled of it What is there to say? The beautiful creatures are going away Like a dam on a river My conscience is pressed By the weight of hard feelings...

Dull twilight spits hesitant sulphur rain sky been down around our ears for weeks only once -- gap-glimpsed moon over that anal-retentive border wall as we laughed through some midnight checkpoint under yellow urban cloud weeks of frantic motion -- petrol...

Birmingham Just behind the mountain Sparse streelamps glow in hot half-moon haze Shadows shorten into little black pools that elongate behind We walk, talk some, laugh some Worked hard, now wired, and hanging out I'm curious what you might be all about...

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill on Blueberry Hill when I found you. The moon stood still on Blueberry Hill and lingered until my dreams came true. The wind in the willow played love?s sweet melody; but all of those vows we made were never to b...

There's a bone in my ear Keeps singing your name Sometimes it's like pleasure Sometimes it's like pain It's a small voice and quiet But I hear it plain There's a bone in my ear Keeps singing your name In my heart there's a an image Like looking throu...

Geese come rushing on a river of wind in the bright sky, bright sky Wild music ripples like a wake behind in the bright sky, bright sky Go higher, go higher where the wind is all in the bright sky, bright sky Where the bullets get tired and fall in t...

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...

Sweet wind blowing off the bay sweeping the heat of the day away making the leaves of the palm trees sway down here tonight everything's okay net's coming in and the anchor's down hour of darkness comes around stars dust the sky and the lights go on so...

Battered buses jammed up to the roof dust and diesel the prevailing themes. farmer sleeping on the truck in front, feet trailing over like he's trolling for dreams. smiling girl directing traffic flow .45 strapped over cotton print dress. marimba-brown a...

It could have been me put the thorns in your crown Rooted as I am in a violent ground How many times have I turned your promise down Still you pour out your love Pour out your love (Chorus:) I was a dweller by a dark stream a crying heart hooked on a...

Cloud pillars clinging like vines to the sky don't cry we'll walk down the meadow with sunrise inside so dry your eyes the winds of all kingdoms meet where we stand the gray forest people cast off their old clothes good-bye everything's sleeping as win...

Fascist architecture of my own design too long been keeping my love confined you tore me out of myself alive those fingers drawing out blood like sweat while the magnificent facades crumble and burn the billion facets of brilliant love the billion facet...

At the feast of fools humour can sometimes be cruel but under certain conditions you have to forget the rules At the feast of fools everybody has a voice nobody goes to the bottom except by their own choice It's time for the silent criers to be held...

Feet fall on the road bound to motion though chains be of gold they are chains all the same traveler on the bridge awakens to find it's not the river that flows but the bridge that moves o'er in the hand of the cloud liquid as time the heron's wing...

An elegant song won't hold up long when the palace falls and the parlour's gone we all must leave but it's not the end we'll meet again at the festival of friends. smiles and laughter and pleasant times there's love in the world but it's hard to find i'...

Hmmm -- every day flashes like a spray of blue jays hmmm -- a golden crown upon each one like an eagle seen against the sun  

Got no social graces never know my place one thing i am sure of you can't judge a man by his race birth don't come easy freedom doesn't come cheap rules and worlds get swept away while you waste your time in sleep (refrain) Grow up you grow up me gr...

Working out on Gavin's woodpile safe within the harmony of kin visions begin to crowd my eyes like a meteor shower in the autumn skies and the soil beneath me seems to moan with a sound like the wind through a hollow bone and my mind fills with figures l...

I woke up thinking about Turkish drummers It didn't take long: I don't know much about Turkish drummers But it made me think of Germany And the guy who sold me cigarettes Who'd been in the Afghan secret police Who made the observation That it's hard... t...

Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born While shepherds kept their watching O'er silent flocks by night Behold throughout the heavens There shone a holy light Go tell it on the mountain...

Night comes the mask of the world resolves into round bits of silver on the table round arrow nocked against the bow round fruit devoured by time while the moon climbs sea swells illusion is queen in the shallow graves of experience time-centred grav...

God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Savior Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy, Comfort and joy O tidings of comfort and joy! In Bethlehem, in...

Look out the window, what do I see? cows hangin' out under spreading trees. ZOOM! they're gone behind the sign white letters pointing to the long white line and I'm going to the country o, la la la la la I'm going to the country sunshine smile on me I...

Moon across the valley Squatting on the roof Of the dirty gray bank Like a cop with no proof We were lying in bliss Love was cooling into sleep There was a dream on the horizon And a punch-up in the street We were lying on the mountain by the satell...

She moves like a golden serpent all day long moves like a golden serpent all day long she lights the candle when the day is gone She likes to give me honey when i'm down she likes to give me honey when i'm down if i ever was a king y'know she was the cro...

Tabloids, bellowing raw delight hail the return of the Teutonic Knights inbred for purity and spoiling for a fight, another little puppet of the New Right. See-through dollars and mystery plagues, varied detritus of Aquarian Age. Shutters on storefronts...

Evening sun slants across the road Painting everything with gold I'm headed for home, got a woman there I can barely wait to hold Got wind in my hair, got the heat inside Heart jumping up and down An empty head and a messed-up bed I'll be floating just...

Ministers meet -- work on the movement of goods also work on the movement of capital also work on the movement of human beings as if we were so many cattle grim travellers in dawn skies see the beauty -- makes you cry inside makes you angry and you d...

Ships moving into this cave of cloud out of the white light up river at a certain point you can only die high contrast resolution of wet rock and new snow these bodies remind me of tire marks frozen in the mud we thought we could change something we...

Good day to you fat balloon man may you always have air you sing a song everybody can believe Good day to you uncle tom cat out to trick the whole world you carry a tune for nobody but yourself Bonjour a toi herr policeman may your boots always fit...

He came from the mountain to walk among the wounded they couldn't see him but the snow did melt whenever he passed by. he came behind winter his face was like the sun they wouldn't see it but he sang on the bank and made the waters run. in his world...

High winds white sky wild birds do glide tattered smoke fades embers in the pipe move like life beginning High winds pyramids glittering ring blood of the king daughter of the stars you are life beginning The wind's travellers' tales tease the...

Underneath the mask of the sulphur sky a bunch of us were busy waiting, watching the people looking ill-at-ease, watching the fraying rope get closer to breaking. Women and men moved back and forth in between effect and cause and just beyond the range o...

On attends quelque chose peut etre le vent ou l'ouverture d'une rose moi je suis en courant en courant La cite bouche-bee semble de boire la voie lactee moi je suis un homme brulant homme brulant et dans la lueur tu m'appele habillee des arcs...

Tokyo Jetlag Evening Walking Out of my throat appears this chuckle A true 20th Century sound A little crazed and having no tonal centre The echoes of this laugh fade for a long time Snaking among those jumbled pedestrians Following that struggling Cedri...

Sun went down looking like the eye of God behind icy mist and stark bare trees inside the dim empty cinema 2 guys in leather jackets glance at each other and shiver "they never built these places with winter in mind" out the window down the gray road you...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas day, on Christmas day; I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas day in the morning. And who do you think was in them then On Christmas day, on Christmas day? And who do you think was in them the...

I'm gonna fly someday I'm gonna fly someday If I keep ready and watch and pray I'm gonna fly someday 

Rain forest Mist and mystery Teeming green Green brain facing labotomy Climate control centre for the world Ancient cord of coexistence Hacked by parasitic greedhead scam - From Sarawak to Amazonas Costa Rica to mangy B.C. hills - Cortege rhythm of fa...

Here comes the helicopter -- second time today everybody scatters and hopes it goes away how many kids they've murdered only god can say if i had a rocket launcher...i'd make somebody pay. i don't believe in guarded borders and i don't believe in hate i...

And the lights lie tumbled out like gems the moon is nothing but a toothless grin floating out on the evening wind the smell of sweat and lube oil pervades the night and the rush of life in flight at the speed of light a million footsteps whispering a g...

I sneaked across the border -- it was threatening rain -- so i could stand in this tunnel, waiting for the roaring train and watch those black kids working out Kung fu moves. If you don't want to be the horses' hoofprints you got to be the hooves. Hear th...

Out in the desert where the wind never stops A few simple people try to grow a few crops Trying to maintain a life and a home On land that was theirs before the Romans thought of Rome A few dozen survivors, ragged but proud With a few woolly sheep, under...

Heavy northern autumn sky mist on forest dark spruce, bright maple and the great lake rolling forever to the narrow gray beach I look west along the red road of the frail sun to where it hovers between shelf of cloud and spiky trees, receding shore T...

It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth With news of joy foretold, "Peace on the earth, good will to men From heaven's all gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay, To hear the angels sing. Still...

Heard the rooster crowing couldn't see no dawn but i know it won't be long to keep the fire burning ain't no easy game but we'll do it just the same i'm going to the northland where the weather keeps you real till this devil's law is repealed and i...

Go tell the sergeant-major to get that thing repaired they're losing their pawns in Asia there's slaughter in every square oh -- it's going down slow (2x) go get the fire department to bring that hose along and them and the schoolboy bandits can wate...

Distant times in distant lands worthless money changing hands "changing them to what?" -- i wonder as in the dust the jet plane thunders carries every feeling into gloom i miss you like i miss the flowers in bloom. there's a crisis in the outer world i...

Make me a bed of fond memories make me to lie down with a smile everything that rises afterward falls but all that dies has first to live. as longing becomes love as night turns to day everything changes joy will find a way  

What's been done in the name of Jesus What's been done in the name of Buddha What's been done in the name of Islam What's been done in the name of man What's been done in the name of liberation And in the name of civilization And in the name of race And...

When thoughts rush by and your signals seem to fly keep it open keep it open and help me keep mine open too some will lie behind but we needn't be unkind keep it open keep it open and help me keep mine open too sun stoned in the east in our eyes l...

And the President said to Kit Carson: "Take my best four horsemen please And ride out to the four directions, Make my great lands barren for me" Kit Carson said to the President "You've made your offer sweet I'll accept this task you've set for me My f...

The crescent moon is rising slow swiftly blades in ice do grow on the branches star-bleached snow waits while time is passing outside the door the dancer whirls chiming bells and shining curls flying footsteps in the snow rhyme the rhythm of ruin bes...

A laugh for the way my life has gone a laugh for the love of a friend a laugh for the fools in the eyes of the world the love that will never end Ha Ha Ha... Let's hear a laugh for the man of the world who thinks he can make things work tried to build...

Judge said to the hooker, "Can you come out to play? I've been condemning people all day long, that's how I get paid My dreams are full of criminals frolicking about Open up the window, let the bad air out Open up the window, let the bad air out Strangl...

My canoe lies on the water evening holds the bones of day the sun like gold dust slips away One by one antique stars herald the arrival of their pale protectress moon Ragged branches vibrate strummed by winds from o'er the hill singing tales of ancie...

Billboards promise paradise And tattoos "done while you wait" Possible futures all laid out On the sweeping curve of the interstate Got no city, got no land Got no lover, got no wife How many ways to say goodbye Can one man fit in a nomad life? Life short-ca...

Waves can't break without rocks that dissolve into sand we can't dance without seasons upon which to stand Eden is a state of rhythm like the sea is a timeless change turn your eyes to the world where we all sit and dream busy dreaming ourselves and eac...

She is passing in a warm breeze bars of light that cross the floor one smoke-gray, curled, tiny feather skips aside By her middle hang the keys made to open any door even the one that lets in the cold wind from outside She lives in a house of colour...

Over the slow slide of continents Over the salt pans pipelines masts and pavilions Shimmering crescent moon recedes into working dawn -- Lone crow against pallid sky Single plume of white smoke on yellow speckled plain Yellowing leaves sparkle in cold bree...

It's not the laughter of rain in the drain It's not the laughter of a man in pain It's not the laughter you can hide behind It's not the laughter of a frightened mind Balanced on the brink only waiting for a shove You better listen for the laugh of love...

Little seahorse swimming in a primal sea heartbeat like a leaf quaking in the breeze i feel magic as Coyote in the middle of the moon-wild night. In the forge-fire time your mother glowed so bright you were like a voice calling in the night and i'm...

See you standing in the door against the dark Fireflies around you like a crown of sparks You blow me a kiss that blurs my vision Blurs the human condition You're the ocean ringing in my brain You are my island ripe with cane Catch the scent of strange...

Down at the bus station shark grins and sandpaper conversation men's faces women's bodies on the magazine stand and a headline about Sarajevo and Tehran They are radiant angels, they are earthly slaves they are predators moving in their endless days day...

On this rooftop where we're sitting In the rays of the setting sun Glasses of wine on a crate between us Catch the light -- seem to glow from within And there's a laugh Hanging in the air And there's no Desperation anywhere So many miles, so many doors Some...

Some people get to make the news Some people get to say what's true Everybody's got to find their own way through But if you love love, then love loves you too Some people get to fly by night Some people get to shine a light Everybody's got to find their own...

Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by You never get to stop and open your eyes One day you're waiting for the sky to fall The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all When you're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time These fragile...

Step outside -- take a look at the stars Catch a glimpse of the way things are -- Making contact... Smell of sweet fresh oil on skin When you move on me like the tide coming in -- Making contact... So many ways to understand One for every woman and man Bee...

I'm looking to be by a window That looks out on the sea Anybody here know Where such a place is? Surf of golden sunlight Breaking over me Man of a thousand faces In the Garden paths take form But the hailstorm guards its own Things forbidden, things unknow...

She's got a mango in the garden - sweet as can be She's got a mango in the garden - full of mystery She's got a mango in the garden - from the original tree She's got a mango in the garden - shares it with me Humid gleaming precious well Love to drink that wa...

Used to have a town but the factory moved away Down to Mexico where they work for hardly any pay Used to have a country but they sold it down the river Like a repossessed farm auctioned off to the highest bidder Mighty trucks of midnight Moving on Moving on...

I don't mean to cling to you my friends it's just i hate the day to have to end never enough time to spend i haven't done enough for this to be the end there must be more... more... more songs more warmth more love more life not more fear not more fam...

Musical friends are keeping me happy they know what I need now I can sleep on anyone's floor without feeling cold inside or outside me the closer we get the easier life be- comes for each of us we can sing songs and play at each other over wine in bo...

Up above my shoulder the ragged rooftops rise casting shadows over streets they seem to despise (Chorus:) come on, come on, wind and rain i know the sun will shine again till then my lady and my Lord will keep me sane i went down to the dead lake shore t...

You can't tell me there is no mystery Mystery Mystery You can't tell me there is no mystery It's everywhere I turn Moon over junk yard where the snow lies bright Snow lies bright Snow lies bright Moon over junk yard where the snow lies bright Can set my heart...

Nanzen Ji cooling wind mind swept clean like arctic sand white stone lake crystal clear i walk on the voices of nightingales pine-framed space tiger leaps emerald tea reflects the Lord  

Wind across the quay-side grit in my eyes and fish in my nose white as whalebone, wheeling seagulls cry outside the bar in the high-street blind fingers spin an accordeon reel shoes and sedan wheels grudgingly keeping time fishing boat stretched out at...

Breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze -- on the cliff the u.s. Embassy frowns out over managua like dracula's tower. the kid who guards fonseca's tomb cradles a beat-up submachine gun -- at age fifteen he's a veteran of four years of war proud to pay his due...

Not a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passing thats the sound somebody makes when they're getting away leaving next weeks hanging jury far behind them prisoner only of the choices they have made Night Train Night Train Ice cube in a...

Mist hangs above hills above mist hangs stone face of mountain above mountain face hangs a net of sky -- crack! there are wings and they rip the net! and the Dance flows on everything flows toward the rim of that shining Cup crossed sticks lie on earth...

Sunday night and it's half past nine (3x) I'm leaving one more town behind. Mirrors are showing the day's last glow (3x) as we're spit out into the jigsaw flow. Ahead where there should be the thickness of night star are pinned on a shimmering curtain o...

Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by Yet in thy dark streets shineth, the everlasting light The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary, a...

Oh i have been a beggar and shall be one again and few the ones with help to lend within the world of men. One day i walk in flowers one day i walk on stones today i walk in hours one day i shall be home I have sat on the street corner and watched th...

Guess I'd get along without you If I had no choice It's taken me this long to find you Done a lot of getting ready for this Some things we learn so slow But look at you, you've got plenty behind you (CHORUS:) There's lots of ways to hit the ground No...

I never live with balance I always wake up nervous Light comes at me sideways I hold my breath forever I never live with balance Though I've always liked the notion I feel that endless hunger For energy and motion Open Open Open I never live with balance...

Sunset is an angel weeping Holding out a bloody sword No matter how I squint I cannot Make out what it's pointing toward Sometimes you feel like you live too long Days drip slowly on the page You catch yourself Pacing the cage I've proven who I am so...

Listen to the rain on this mountain town Listen to the night bird's lonesome cry listen to the scratch of pen on paper That's the sound of sleep denied. Hear the sleepers toss and turn Dreaming whatever they're dreaming of The wind that's clearing the h...

I was born and raised down in Alabama On a farm way back up in the woods I was so ragged that folks used to call me Patches Papa used to tease me about it 'Cause deep down inside he was hurt 'Cause he'd done all he could My papa was a great old man I can see...

Crashing in the kitchen, noises in the hall roll over and go back to sleep -- it's just a dream, that's all so how come the window's broken? what caused the glass to fall? and who put that bullet hole in peggy's kitchen wall? police arrive -- muddy up the...

You've got covert action prejudice to extremes you've got primitive cunning and high tech means you've got eyes everywhere but people see through you you've got good manipulators got your store of dupes you've got the idiot clamour of your lobby grou...

Stare into the moonlight Silver fingers press my eyes Probing in my heart with longing These footprints by the sea's edge Disappearing grain by grain Lose their form but keep their substance As the waves roar on the beach like a squadron of F16's Ebb...

Smoky afternoon light got the sun stuck in my eye it's shouting from the river then it leaps back in the sky Prenons la mer sur les vagues solaires -- toi et moi parmi les esprits de la lumiere. This morning in the past y'know i felt like broken glas...

Don't need the everlasting trade expansion Don't need the cold white heroin breath Don't need Pizzarro or the Inquisition No berserk worship of a hero's death Don't need reactionary politicians Don't need the gunfight at the O.K. Don't need no Reverend P...

They're hosing down trucks at the border under a rainbow sign -- the raindrops falling on my head burn into my mind. on a hillside in the distance there's a patch of green sunshine ain't it a shame ain't it a shame about the radium rain. Everyday in the...

Rainfall on rolling green wavy lines and peacock sheen rainfall on rolling green prettiest world i've ever seen. Faces and places in a highway land beads strung on a silver strand quick silver in a callused hand never a place for the Son of Man. Born...

Went to the museum, red brother saw your ancient bloom cut, pressed and dried a sign said wasn't it clever what they used to do but it never did say how they died. (refrain) Hey hey hey, hey hey hey Went to Regina, red sister heard a cab driver say wha...

Above the dark town after the sun's gone down 2 vapour trails cross the sky catching the day's last slow goodbye black skyline looks rich as velvet something is shining like gold but better rumours of glory smiles mixed with curses the crowd disperse...

Dance music from the corner bar over dogs barking at a passing car and your hair tumbles down like sahara gold hot night -- streets are full of life carnival faces in rembrandt light and your hair tumbles down like sahara gold half moon shining through...

Something moves in the still dark hours sunday in a shanty town eyelids open two by two but not a single light goes on tension builds as the only sound is the quiet clash of metal and boots and now and then an order barked at the bullies in the drab gr...

Was half asleep in the washroom when they came in Eyes like moonlight on barbed wire and veins showing under the skin The uniforms made me nervous, I got ready for the chase But they left me scanning these crowds for some sign of your face Something fell...

Rays of the moon make magic in the streets of the city all the people get strange but their faces look so pretty the walking graffiti; survivalist bums; even the secret police shout that you're the one see how i miss you every psychopath gets his own mag...

Met a mercenary once Pushing lethal steel Wanted me to watch his back While he did his deal He must have been a loser Or he wouldn't have looked to me But I have to say, I liked the thought Of living that guilt-free Watching the way the women walk Makes me th...

I went up on the mountain side to see what i could see to see what i could be on the shining mountain I watched the day go down in fire and sink in the valley and sink into the sea drown in golden fire Fireflies danced in the forest night the trees...

The man who twirled with rose in teeth has his tongue tied up in thorns, His once-expanded sense of time and space all shot and torn. See him wander, hat in hand -- "Look at me, I'm so forlorn -- ask anyone who can recall, it's horrible to be born"! B...

Silent night Holy night All is calm All is bright Round yon virgin mother and child Holy infant, so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace Silent night Holy night Shepherds quake at the sight Glories spring from heaven above Heavenly...

High speed drift on a prairie road hot tires sing like a string being bowed sudden town rears up then explodes fragments resolve into white line code whirl on silver wheels (chorus) black earth energy receptor fields undulate under a grey cloud shield...

L ron N ron every kind of ron con Neocon old con got to put the brakes on Slow down fast Lights out veins plugged zap it with another drug Genejacker pharma thug say hello to superbug Slow down fast Shills and hawkers and rockers with walkers Bombs in the lo...

Somebody touched me Making everything new Somebody touched me I didn't know what to do Burned through my life Like a bolt from the blue Somebody touched me I know it was you Somebody touched me Deep in my bones Turned a key in the hole There was so...

All the days we've been together All the days we've been apart Add up to a bunch of nothing If I'm not still in your heart I never want you to be Just a page in my history Someone I used to love Your voice breathed in my ear Or on the telephone All t...

I'm going to ask the question Please answer if you can Is there anybody's children can tell me What is the soul of a man? (CHORUS:) Won't somebody tell me Answer if you can Won't somebody tell me Tell me what is the soul of a man? I've travelled dif...

When the wild-eyed dogs of day to day Come snapping at your heels And there's so much coming at you That you don't know how to feel When they've taken all your money And then come back for your clothes When your hands are full of thorns But you can't qu...

When we come when we come again to celebrate renewal at the heart at the heart of us our eyes will touch Life though we may be hard to find, where we stand in time the mirrors of the past shine with the light of unborn days we wander in the flames...

Small windows looking outward show me a sequined sky. rubies shine in my glass of wine. dusk breezes on oiled water paint a pointillist facade. it's ceaselessly shifting world -- like today i'm far away. i see your face behind each time-blurred pane...

Orion's high in the south-west sky -- you're bound to move on and so am i. on this world we've had time to burn -- how come nobody ever seems to learn? see how the starwheel turns. crystal drift on the whistling wind -- constant change is the space we'r...

From Tierra del Fuego to Ungava Bay the history of betrayal continues to today the spirit of Almighty Voice, the ghost of Anna Mae call like thunder from the mountains -- you can hear them say it's a stolen land Apartheid in Arizona, slaughter in Brazil...

I've seen a high cairn kissed by holy wind Seen a mirror pool cut by golden fins Seen alleys where they hide the truth of cities The mad whose blessing you must accept without pity I've stood in airports guarded glass and chrome Walked rifled roads and l...

Down peppers the rain from a clear blue sky Down trickles a tear on a youthful face Feeling in haste and wondering why Up struggles the sun from a wounded night Out venture our hearts from their silent shrouds Trying to ignite but wondering how We can laugh a...

Drift along hear the gravel crackle butterflies shades of the Eternal Dancer God has buttered the land with sunlight sunlight corn grows high like a tall watusi katydid hums a monotonous tune rather hypnotically hmmmmmm overhead there's a parrot w...

I've been down to parliament, i've been in school i've been in jail to learn the golden rule i've been to the workhouse -- served my time in those hallowed halls the only thing i know is the blues got the world by the balls i've been to the tundra and the...

Big city, Europa, July of 64. It's 5AM. Weather blowing bitter off the Baltic. Car slows beside him as he walks, hubcaps slow revolution, jaundiced looking pockmarked face round and windburn, short greasy black beard. Couple of language stabs, settle on En...

All day the mountains rose behind the veil of smoke from burning fields And road dust dyeing black skin bronze and the road rolling like a rough sea It's quiet now, just crickets and a dog fight somewhere in the far away In my heart I hold your photogra...

You knelt on the carpet Crimson and stained Light trickled over your black dress like rain Your lips were hot My shocked heart screamed And I can't scrape my eyes free of this dream We each occupied the same space/time Matter Antimatter Tangled like...

These shoes have walked some strange streets stranger still to come -- sometimes the prayers of strangers are all that keeps them from trying to stay static, something even death can't do everything is motion -- to the motion be true In this cold comm...

I'm sipping flor de caña and lime juice, it's three a.m. Blow a fruit fly off the rim of my glass The radio's playing Superchunk and the friends of Dean Martinez Midnight it was bike tires whacking the potholes Milling humans, shivering energy glow Fusin...

There's a broad river winding through this African lowland The moon is held up orange and big See it raise its hand And the last ferry's pulling out with no place left to stand for the mines of Mozambique There's a wealth of amputation waiting in the...

Something jewelled slips away round the next bend with a splash laughing at the hands i hold out only air within their grasp all you can do is praise the razor for the fineness of the slash i see the Rose above the sky opens and the light behind the su...

Isn't it hard To be the one who has to give advice? Isn't it hard To be the strong one? I see the skyline blurred through the plastic on your back screen door Not unlike the faces of the people who keep turning up in the places we go The ones we'd never...

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...

When the sun falls the bird of paradise spreads his wings wide when the rain shines the earth sighs gratitude and spreads her hues bright you come to me bringing the sun and rain bringing my song  

When the sun goes nova and the world turns over i don't want to be alone so honey come on home if you're in the valley when the dam breaks, palley you is going to feel alone so honey come on home if you're on the bum and the policemen come if you l...

Slid out of my dreams like a baby out of the nurse's hands onto the hard floor of day I'd been wearing OJ's gloves and I couldn't get them off It was too early but I couldn't sleep showered, dressed, stepped out into the heat the parrot things on the porc...

Goons in blackface creeping in the road -- farm family waiting for the night to explode -- working the land in an age of terror you come to see the moon as the bad news bearer down where the death squad lives. They cut down people like they cut down tree...

Hear me you business blackmailers When I see what you've done to the wild I feel like a man standing over The corpse of his murdered child Use it wisely Use it wisely, go on Reap your harvest, Wise Users 'Til everything is gone Haul the last fish from the oc...

Sun's up, uuh huh, looks okay the world survives into another day and i'm thinking about eternity some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me. I had another dream about lions at the door they weren't half as frightening as they were before but i'm thinking ab...

Stand on a bridge before the cavern of night darkness alive with possibility nose to this wind full of twinkling lights trying to catch the scent of what's coming to be (in this...) world of wonders... somewhere a saxophone slides through changes like...

So we wait beside the desert nothing left to give away naked as the Hanged Man's secrets nothing left to do but pray you don't have to play the horses life's a gamble all the same it don't take much to make you lose sight of the object of the game an...

So i find out what the luxury of hate is as exciting maybe as doing the dishes face toward window -- light received you walk away to see a film see some people see a man stab in throat twist in gut all too clear not too new -- all been done before plane...

Woman cry -- chase man down street crying "No Chuckie, no, please don't" Another girl comes they run along St. Andrew, turn south on Kensington Meanwhile Chuckie beats it down the alley by the chicken packer's By the time I reach the corner they've all vani...

You point to the sky the sky is reflected in your eyes and i want to fly on a carpet of brown leaves we retrace the steps of change construct a tapestry of what will come You point to the sea i see what seems to be so free bound by empty sky on a...