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Bruce Cockburn - Lovers In A Dangerous Time
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Bruce Cockburn - Wondering Where The Lions Are
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Bruce Cockburn - All The Ways I Want You
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Bruce Cockburn - Messenger Wind
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Bruce Cockburn - Stolen Land
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Bruce Cockburn - Yanqui Go Home
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Bruce Cockburn - Candy Man's Gone
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Bruce Cockburn - Change Your Mind
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Bruce Cockburn - Clocks Don't Bring Tomorrow - Knives Don't Bring
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Bruce Cockburn - Dancing In Paradise
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Bruce Cockburn - Different When It Comes To You
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Bruce Cockburn - Dweller By A Dark Stream
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Bruce Cockburn - Hoop Dancer
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Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher
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Bruce Cockburn - Look How Far
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Bruce Cockburn - Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long
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Bruce Cockburn - Nicaragua
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Bruce Cockburn - One Day I Walk
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Bruce Cockburn - Postcards From Cambodia
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Bruce Cockburn - Rumours Of Glory
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Bruce Cockburn - See How I Miss You
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Bruce Cockburn - Slow Down Fast
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Bruce Cockburn - Stained Glass
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Bruce Cockburn - Tibetan Side Of Town
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Bruce Cockburn - To Raise The Morning Star
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Bruce Cockburn - Trickle Down
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Bruce Cockburn - Wait No More
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Bruce Cockburn - Waiting For a Miracle
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Bruce Cockburn - You've Never Seen Everything
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Bruce Cockburn - A Dream Like Mine
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Bruce Cockburn - A Life Story
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Bruce Cockburn - A Long Time Love Song
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Bruce Cockburn - A Montreal Song
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Bruce Cockburn - After The Rain
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Bruce Cockburn - All The Diamonds In The World
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Bruce Cockburn - All's Quiet On The Inner City Front
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Bruce Cockburn - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
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Bruce Cockburn - And We Dance
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Bruce Cockburn - Anything Can Happen
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Bruce Cockburn - Arrows Of Ligh
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Bruce Cockburn - Arrows Of Light
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Bruce Cockburn - Badlands Flashback
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Bruce Cockburn - Berlin Tonight
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Bruce Cockburn - Birmingham Shadows
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Bruce Cockburn - Bone In My Ear
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Bruce Cockburn - Bright Sky
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Bruce Cockburn - Broken Wheel
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Bruce Cockburn - Burn
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Bruce Cockburn - Call It a Democracy
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Bruce Cockburn - Can I Go With You
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Bruce Cockburn - Child Of The Wind
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Bruce Cockburn - Christmas Song
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Bruce Cockburn - Civilization And Its Discontents
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Bruce Cockburn - Closer To The Light
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Bruce Cockburn - Coldest Night Of The Year
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Bruce Cockburn - Creation Dream
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Bruce Cockburn - Cry Of A Tiny Babe
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Bruce Cockburn - Deja Vu
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Bruce Cockburn - Dialogue With The Devil - Or Why Don't We Celebrate?
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Bruce Cockburn - Don't Feel Your Touch
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Bruce Cockburn - Down In Yon Forest
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Bruce Cockburn - Dust and Diesel
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Bruce Cockburn - Going To The Country
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Bruce Cockburn - He Came From The Mountain
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Bruce Cockburn - Hills Of Morning
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Bruce Cockburn - How I Spent My Fall Vacation
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Bruce Cockburn - I Wanna Dance With You
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Bruce Cockburn - If a Tree Falls
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Bruce Cockburn - In The Falling Dark
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Bruce Cockburn - Incandescent Blue
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Bruce Cockburn - It Come Upon The Midnight
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Bruce Cockburn - Joy Will Find a Way
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Bruce Cockburn - Justice
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Bruce Cockburn - Last Night Of The World
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Bruce Cockburn - Laughter
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Bruce Cockburn - Let Us Go Laughing
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Bruce Cockburn - Life's Mistress
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Bruce Cockburn - Listen For The Laugh
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Bruce Cockburn - Little Seahorse
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Bruce Cockburn - Live On My Mind
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Bruce Cockburn - Loner
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Bruce Cockburn - Lord of the Starfields
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Bruce Cockburn - Love Song
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Bruce Cockburn - Making Contact
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Bruce Cockburn - Mary Had a Baby
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Bruce Cockburn - Maybe The Poet
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Bruce Cockburn - Montreal Song
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Bruce Cockburn - Musical Friends
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Bruce Cockburn - My Beat
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Bruce Cockburn - Never So Free
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Bruce Cockburn - Night Train
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Bruce Cockburn - No Footprints
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Bruce Cockburn - Northern Lights
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Bruce Cockburn - Of The Angel Beast
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Bruce Cockburn - On The Coldest Night Of The Year
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Bruce Cockburn - Open
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Bruce Cockburn - Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
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Bruce Cockburn - Pacing The Cage
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Bruce Cockburn - Put It In Your Heart
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Bruce Cockburn - Put Our Hearts Together
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Bruce Cockburn - Rainfall
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Bruce Cockburn - Red Brother Red Sister
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Bruce Cockburn - See You Tomorrow
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Bruce Cockburn - Shepherds
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Bruce Cockburn - Silver Wheels
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Bruce Cockburn - Someone I Used To Love
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Bruce Cockburn - Soul Of a Man
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Bruce Cockburn - Spring Song
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Bruce Cockburn - Starwheel
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Bruce Cockburn - Strange Waters
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Bruce Cockburn - The Charity Of Night
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Bruce Cockburn - The Coming Rains
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Bruce Cockburn - The Mines Of Mozambique
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Bruce Cockburn - The Strong One
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Bruce Cockburn - The Thirteenth Mountain
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Bruce Cockburn - The Trouble With Normal
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Bruce Cockburn - The Whole Night Sky
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Bruce Cockburn - Together Alone
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Bruce Cockburn - Tokyo
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Bruce Cockburn - Tried And Tested
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Bruce Cockburn - Tropic Moon
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Bruce Cockburn - Waiting For The Moon
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Bruce Cockburn - Wanna Go Walking
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Bruce Cockburn - When The Sun Goes Nova
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Bruce Cockburn - World Of Wonders
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Bruce Cockburn - You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance
The Charity Of Night
Bruce Cockburn
It's 5AM. Weather blowing bitter off the Baltic.
Car slows beside him as he walks, hubcaps slow revolution, jaundiced looking
pockmarked face round and windburn, short greasy black beard.
Couple of language stabs, settle on English.
It's cold.
I give you ride?
Don't you want to kiss me?
This goes on halfway across the cobbled bridge. Driver pulls ahead gets out by
the construction fence, ambles toward a rubbing bulge in his pants. In his
jacket is the revolver. The hand is already in the pocket for warmth and
fingers slide easily around wood grips. As slow as that predator's footsteps
the gun comes out, arm straightens, scythe blade bisecting yellow forehead.
Wind. Blue metal street light. Faint twilight shining in the corners of
stones.
Wave on wave of life
Like the great wide oceans roll
Haunting hands of memory
Pluck silver strands of soul
The damage and the dying done, the clarity of light
gentle bows and glasses raised to the charity of night
Slow revolution, 1985, crosswise in a hammock in the hot volcanic hills.
Its 3AM, the night after the air raid.
From the ridge she watched A37s like ugly gulls make a dozen swooping passes
over some luckless town maybe ten clicks beyond the border. In the distance the
Pacific glimmered silver. Now lascivious laughter floats on the darkness from
the police post next door. Male voices and a woman's. Little clouds of desire
painted around the edges with rum. In the muddy street a pig suddenly screams.
Pacific glimmers silver. Moon full over shadow mansion.
West coast. Can't say when.
There is incense and heat-driven scent of flowers. A tongue slides over soft
skin, love pounds in veins, brains buzzing balls of lust. Fingers twine in wet
hair, limbs twist and roll. On the dresser wax drips in slow motion down the
long side of a black candle. Ecstatic halo of flame and pheromone.