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
fall sky waiting
One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
peaceful female needs
Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.
travel earth spirit
There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.
light people shining
Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.
time generations moments
When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations
struggle fighting darkness
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.
christian mean heart
If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
defined drop expect mind plans until
I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, ... I expect to be doing this until I drop or become incapacitated. I don't make any more defined plans than that.
album choices choose close desire fits less might mood particular pieces played records time varied whatever widely
We had close to 30 pieces to choose from and it was more a desire to make an album that made a cohesive whole, ... Most of the time when we put on records it's because we want that mood whatever it is. So, if you have an album that is widely varied in mood it might get played less than one that fits somebody's particular mood... at least that's how my choices usually work.