Bruce Cockburn

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse... Unofficial, appreciative account of the real man's genius. Tweeting lyrics daily.

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I had a dream
There was a storm
And all the earth was without form
The sun was cold
The ether warm
Pressure building left and right
Timer ticking
Just out of sight
I’m taking shelter in the light
Time takes its toll
But in my soul
I’m on a roll

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I see you in the distance
But I can't get there from here
Hard to believe it's happening
But my whole world's shrunken to
All the ways I want you

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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

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Maybe to those who love is given sight
To pierce the wall of seeming night
And know it pure beyond all imagining…
Maybe to those who love it's given to hear
Music too high for the human ear
And clear as hydrogen to go singing

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Anything can happen
To put out the light
Is it any wonder
I don't want to say goodnight?

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Passion runs deep, it's scary sometimes
When it's larger than life or your peace of mind
It's got me all the same
And I'm not sorry that's true

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Paradox and contrast
Variety and change
History repeats
But it's never the same
We've got this time
We've got this rhythm
Till the whole thing comes apart
Like light through a prism
And we dance, and we dance
and we dance...

[Bruce Cockburn @CockburnQuotes]

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

[Bruce Cockburn @CockburnQuotes]

Maybe to those who love it's given to hear
Music too high for the human ear
And clear as hydrogen to go singing

[Bruce Cockburn @CockburnQuotes]

I've been in trouble but I'm okay
Been through the wringer but I'm okay
Walls are falling and I'm okay
Under the mercy and I'm okay

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Each one lost is everyone's loss you see
Each one lost is a vital part of you and me

[Bruce Cockburn @CockburnQuotes]

Big Circumstance comes looming
Like a darkly roaring train
Rushes like a sucking wound
Across a winter plain
Recognizing neither polished shine
Nor spot nor stain
And wherever you are on the compass rose
You'll never be again

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Got a woman I love and she loves me
And we live on a piece of land
I never know quite how to measure these things
But I guess I'm a happy man
Great big love
Sweeping across the sky

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First Mass rings through smoke and gas
Day flowers out of the night
Creatures of the dark in disarray
Fall before the morning light

[Bruce Cockburn @CockburnQuotes]

Sometimes you can hear the Spirit whispering to you
But if God stays silent, what else can you do?
Except listen to the silence...

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Don't tell me there is no mystery
Mystery
Mystery
And don't tell me there is no mystery
It overflows my cup

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Ancient and always
The wheel's ever whirling
Today I'm riding, tomorrow I walk
Step through forever into this very moment
The heart is pumping and the heart rocks
It's my beat
In my new town

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Through the seasons and through the seas
The light goes on forever
Through the burning and the seeding
Through the joining and the parting
The light goes on forever

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I picture us in this light
Friendship a fine silver web
Stretched across golden smoky haze
And this is simple
And this is grace

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Mists part
Sunrise
Shining key
Christ is risen to lead us free