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Bruce Cockburn
Life Short Call Now Billboards promise paradise And tattoos "done while you wait" Possible futures all laid out On the sweeping curve of the interstate Got no city, got no land Got no lover, got no wife How many ways to say goodbye Can one man fit in a nomad life? Life short-call now Lone car waves, then it wanes Leaves only voices in the hall And in the room next door to mine The bed is banging on the wall You've no idea how I long For even one loving caress For you to step into my heart Without deception or duress Life short-call now |
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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 Watching the way the women walk Makes me think of you And all my sins and all my stalkers Affect me that way too The pain on the horizon Can't sink me in sorrow 'Cause I know I'm going to be Seeing you tomorrow O--see you tomorrow See you tomorrow See you tomorrow Look at that big fat full moon Hanging in the night When I feel it calling me The shackles seem to bite These chains of flesh are sour and sweet But these we must explore, oh I know I'm going to feel complete When I see you tomorrow O--see you tomorrow See you tomorrow See you tomorrow |
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You can't tell me there is no mystery
Mystery Mystery You can't tell me there is no mystery It's everywhere I turn Moon over junk yard where the snow lies bright Snow lies bright Snow lies bright Moon over junk yard where the snow lies bright Can set my heart to burn Stood before the shaman, I saw star-strewn space Star-strewn space Star-strewn space Stood before the shaman, I saw star strewn space Behind the eye holes in his face Infinity always gives me vertigo Vertigo Vertigo Infinity always gives me vertigo And fills me up with grace I was built on a Friday and you can't fix me You can't fix me You can't fix me I was built on a Friday and you can't fix me Even so I've done okay So grab that last bottle full of gasoline Gasoline Gasoline Grab that last bottle full of gasoline Light a toast to yesterday And don't tell me there is no mystery Mystery Mystery And don't tell me there is no mystery It overflows my cup This feast of beauty can intoxicate Intoxicate Intoxicate This feast of beauty can intoxicate Just like the finest wine So all you stumblers who believe love rules Believe love rules Believe love rules Come all you stumblers who believe love rules Stand up and let it shine Stand up and let it shine |
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There's a knot in my gut
As I gaze out today On the planes of the city All polychrome grey When the skin is peeled of it What is there to say? The beautiful creatures are going away Like a dam on a river My conscience is pressed By the weight of hard feelings Piled up in my breast The callous and vicious things Humans display The beautiful creatures are going away Why? Why? From the stones of the fortress To the shapes in the air To the ache in the spirit We label despair We create what destroys, Bind ourselves to betray The beautiful creatures are going away |
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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 hawkers and rockers with walkers Bombs in the lockers and brain dead mockers Slow down fast One-eyed sun leering through the haze Hordes of loveless marching while the little drummer plays Nail in the coffin rats in the maze Dancing arm in arm towards the looming end of days Got to slow down Oil wars water wars tv propaganda whores Fire alarm met with snores no one gets what' gone before Slow down fast Flagwave hammer slave gonna be a close shave Stay brave jump the grave got to save what we can save Slow down fast Got to slow down fast Slow down fast CSIS won't you tell me what you've got on me? |
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Tell the universe what you've done
Out in the desert with your smoking gun Looks like you've been having too much fun Tell the universe what you've done Tell the universe what you took While the heavens trembled and the mountains shook All those lives not worth a second look Tell the universe what you took You've been projecting your shit at the world Self-hatred tarted up as payback time You can self destruct-that's your right But keep it to yourself if you don't mind Tell the universe where you've been With your bloodstained shoes and your dunce's grin Got to identify next of kin Tell the universe where you've been |
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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 Lamentations everywhere All the covers turned to blue Desperation laid her bare She told me everything I could do She told herself a story that flat out wasn't true She made me feel sorry But it's different when it comes to you I don't want to go home tonight I wanna turn loose my lust I want you to squeeze me tight Do the things that we discussed I'll be my broken self The zero hidden from your view I don't usually do that But it's different when it comes to you I didn't know I could do that But it's different when it comes to you |
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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 fit in my heart Spacetime strings bend World without end God's too big to fit in a book Nothings too big to fit in my heart |
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