Тексты песен «Bruce Cockburn»

You knelt on the carpet, crimson and stained Light trickled over your black dress like rain Your lips were hot and my shocked heart screamed And I can't scrape my eyes free of this dream We each occupy the same...

Moon of plenty, moon of mischance Itll be what you want but you cant stop the dance Try to count the steps and they change while you stare And the translucent moon floats in waves of blue air And we cry out for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Got no social graces Never know my place Ine 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...