Тексты песен «Bruce Cockburn»
Bruce Cockburn - The Gift
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...
Bruce Cockburn - The Mines Of Mozambique
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...
Bruce Cockburn - The Rose Above The Sky
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 'Til the Rose above...
Bruce Cockburn - The Strong One
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...
Bruce Cockburn - The Thirteenth Mountain
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...
Bruce Cockburn - The Trouble With Normal
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...
Bruce Cockburn - The Whole Night Sky
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...
Bruce Cockburn - Thoughts On A Rainy Afternoon
Rain rings trash can bells And what do you know My alley becomes a cathedral Eyes can be archways To enter or leave by Vacuums replaced by a crystal Jesus don't let Toronto take my song away It's easy to love...
Bruce Cockburn - Tibetan Side Of Town
================= 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...
Bruce Cockburn - Tie Me At The Crossroads
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...
Bruce Cockburn - To Fit In My Heart
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...
Bruce Cockburn - To Raise The Morning Star
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...
Bruce Cockburn - Together Alone
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...
Bruce Cockburn - Tokyo
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...
Bruce Cockburn - Trickle Down
Picture on magazine boardroom pop star Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead greed You say Trust me with the money -- the keys to the universe Trickle down will give us everything we need Brand new century private...
Bruce Cockburn - Tried And Tested
Tried and tested Tried and tested By the cries of birds By the lies Ive heard By my own loose talk By the way I walk By the claws of beasts By the laws of priests By the gluttons feast By the word police By...
Bruce Cockburn - Tropic Moon
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...
Bruce Cockburn - Understanding Nothing
==================== 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...
Bruce Cockburn - Up On The Hillside
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...
Bruce Cockburn - Use Me While You Can
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 plains little grey houses blend with giant jagged boulders and pale...