Тексты песен «Bruce Cockburn»

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...

They wake up suddenly in the night There is light And figures dancing in the sky Clothed in more colours than the world can contain And all the silences of the night Leap in song Like that of a river cascading from...

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...

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

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...

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 Black earth energy receptor fields...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 madders blessing you miles to accept without pity I've stood in airports guarded...

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...

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...

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...

The citys hungry Hear that rumblin under ground The citys hungry Hear that rumblin under ground You better think twice Before you go downtown Man on a park bench Face in a paper sack

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...