Тексты песен «Bruce Cockburn»

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Gone from...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Standing on a rock in a river Staring at the splintered sun You could drown yourself in jewels Like a thousand other fools While you stand there looking down at what you've won Sitting on a mountain of ashes Face to...

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...

================== 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...

Amid the rumours and the expectations and all the stories dreamt and lived Amid the clangour and the dislocation and things to fear and to forgive Dont forget about delight Y know what Im saying to you Dont...

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...

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

Down in yon forest be a hall Sing May Queen May sing Mary 'Tis is coverleted over with purple and pall Sing all good men for the new born baby Oh, in that hall is a pallet-bed Sing May Queen May sing Mary 'Tis stained...

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...

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 I was a dweller by a dark stream...

Early on one Christmas morn Jesus Christ the son was born Singing carols, Christmas songs Early on one Christmas morn Early on one Christmas morn Jesus Christ the son was born Singing carols, Christmas songs Jesus...