Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, environmental issues, politics, and spirituality...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth27 May 1945
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
animal lions wonder
And I'm wondering where the lions are.
darkness daylight kicks
Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.
rip rivers forever
Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time In the cry of a tiny babe.
song rocks rock-and-roll
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
writing two together
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
song writing years
I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
gold chains
Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.
hurt guy get-better
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.
normal trouble
The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
children hero blood
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.
dark maps sometimes
Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend
fall sky waiting
One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
light people shining
Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.
struggle fighting darkness
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.