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@ALBUM: 85.rumours.of.glory
Author: Bruce Cockburn
ALBUM title: Rumours Of Glory (1985) PLANE 88406
Total Duration: 67:10 (16 tracks)


@SONG: The Trouble With Normal (3:35)
(From the album "The Trouble With Normal")

Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage
Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage
Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights
What did they think the politics of panic would invite?
Person in the street shrugs -- "Security comes first"
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse

Callous men in business costume speak computerese
Play pinball with the 3rd world trying to keep it on its knees
Their single crop starvation plans put sugar in your tea
And the local 3rd world's kept on reservations you don't see
"It'll all go back to normal if we put our nation first"
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse

Fashionable fascism dominates the scene
When ends don't meet it's easier to justify the means
Tenants get the dregs and landlords get the cream
As the grinding devolution of the democratic dream
Brings us men in gas masks dancing while the shells burst
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse


@SONG: Going Up Against Chaos (5:31)
(From the album "The Trouble With Normal")

Moon across the valley
Squatting on the roof
Of the dirty gray bank
Like a cop with no proof

We were lying in bliss
Love was cooling into sleep
There was a dream on the horizon
And a punch-up in the street

We were lying on the mountain
by the satellite dish
Humming with the tremors of
Every envy, rage and wish
Orchids and radar
In the dazzling night
The stars were all racing like satellites

Going up against chaos
Going up against chaos
Two hearts full of tough love

We were bodies of light
Like we'll be someday
The sirens and the curses
Were light years away

We were Lot on the mountain
We were Noah on the Ark
Flying hand in hand
From the doghowl dark

Going up against chaos...


@SONG: Wondering Where The Lions Are (3:42)
(From the album "Dancing In the Dragon's Jaws")

Sun's up, uuh huh, looks okay
the world survives into another day
and i'm thinking about eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.

I had another dream about lions at the door
they weren't half as frightening as they were before
but i'm thinking about eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.

Walls windows trees, waves coming through
you be in me and i'll be in you
together in eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me

Up among the firs where it smells so sweet
or down in the valley where the river used to be
i got my mind on eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
and i'm wondering where the lions are...
i'm wondering where the lions are...

Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake,
thousand-year-old petroglyphs doing a double take,
pointing a finger at eternity
i'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy

Young men marching, helmets shining in the sun,
polished as precise like the brain behind the gun
(should be!) they got me thinking about eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
and i'm wondering where the lions are...
i'm wondering where the lions are...

Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay
One of these days we're going to sail away,
going to sail into eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
and i'm wondering where the lions are...
i'm wondering where the lions are...


@SONG: Tokyo (3:25)
(From the album "Humans")

They're getting prepared to haul a car out of the river
Noise and smoke and concrete seem to be going on forever
Grinding gears and drivers getting high on exhaust
i'm thinking about the water down below and what got lost

Pachinko jingle and space torpedo beams
Comic book violence and escaping steam
Grey suited business men pissing against the wall --
Cut to crumbling guardrail, slow motions car fall

Oh Tokyo -- I never can sleep in your arms
Mind keeps on ringing like a fire alarm
Me and all the other dice bouncing around in the cup
Did you have to show me that accident scene
Didn't I get enough shaking up?
Still I'm gonna miss you...

Dragon of good fortune struggles with trickster fox
Energy and patience and the power of the buck
Tonight I'm flying headlong
to meet the dark red edge of dawn
I know somebody will be crying
and somebody will be gone

Oh Tokyo -- (repeat chorus)


@SONG: All's Quiet On The Inner City Front (5:27)
(From the album "Inner City Front")

blue billboard on the roof next door
makes a square of light on the kitchen floor
smokes rises from a cigarette
there's a dull glisten where the table's wet
soft breath rises from the bed
a thousand question marks over my head

turn on the tube but there's nothing new
the usual panic in red, white and blue
"military advisors" marching in the square
knife-sharp trouser creases slicing air
private armies on suburban lawns
shoulders braced against the tidal dawn
all's quiet on the inner city front
i don't know why i should but i feel content

bell in the fire station tower
rings out the measure of the racing hours
i slip through the door to the roof outside
to gaze at the sign hanging in the sky
that sailor on the billboard looks so self-possessed
doesn't have a thing to forgive or forget
all's quiet on the inner city front.


@SONG: Creation Dream (4:00)
(From the album "Dancing In the Dragon's Jaws")

centred on silence
counting on nothing
i saw you standing on the sea
and everything was
dark except for
sparks the wind struck from your hair
sparks that turned to
wings around you
angel voices mixed with seabird cries
fields of motion
surging outward
questions that contain their own replies...

you were dancing
i saw you dancing
throwing your arms toward the sky
fingers opening
like flares
stars were shooting everywhere
lines of power
bursting outward
along the channels of your song
mercury waves flashed
under your feet
shots of silver in the shell-pink dawn...


@SONG: Wanna Go Walking (2:53)
(From the album "Inner City Front")

neon flame on the window of an upstairs room
helicopter beats across the face of the moon
got a hunger that sprawls like this galaxy
want to wrap my arms around you -- draw you right inside me
i want to go walking
with you Judy
through the movie
of the world

no matter what i do i feel your presence everywhere
i'll be just standing around and your scent comes at me
out of nowhere
i see your face on the wall -- in the magazine too
next thing you know the billboard out my window will be you
i want to go walking
with you Judy
through the movie
of the world

today was a dog licking crap in the gutter of the street
tonight is a dancer oscillating on weightless feet
so the fortune teller said you wouldn't end up with me
last i heard only God gets to say what has to be
i want to walking
with you Judy
through the movie
of the world.


@SONG: Grim Travellers (4:51)
(From the album "Humans")

ministers meet -- work on the
movement of goods
also work on the movement of
capital
also work on the movement of
human beings
as if we were so many cattle

grim travellers in dawn skies
see the beauty -- makes you cry inside
makes you angry and you don't know why
grim travellers in dawn skies

12 mercenaries got weapons primed
gonna take that African nation
in record time
you wonder why they bother, why
not leave it alone
they say "every man wants to retire to a
place he can call his own"

those grim travellers in dawn skies
see the beauty -- makes them cry inside
makes them angry and they don't know why
grim travellers in dawn skies

redness, richer than a rose
blooms against the backdrop of somebody's
white clothes
bitter little girls and boys from the
Red Army Underground
they'd blow away Karl Marx if he had the nerve
to come around

they're just travellers in dawn skies
see the beauty -- makes them cry inside
makes them angry and they don't know why
they're grim travellers in dawn skies

down on the plain of 10,000 smoke
stacks
trucks butt each other to establish
dominance
the newspaper next to me leans over
and says matter-of-factly
"sacred mountains towers above meadows"
uh huh and above us

grim travellers in dawn skies
i see the beauty -- makes me cry inside
it makes me angry and i don't know why
we're grim travellers in dawn skies


@SONG: Rumours Of Glory (3:38)
(From the album "Humans")

above the dark town
after the sun's gone down
2 vapour trails cross the sky
catching the day's last slow goodbye
black skyline looks rich as velvet
something is shining
like gold but better
rumours of glory

smiles mixed with curses
the crowd disperses
about whom no details are known
each one alone yet not alone
behind the pain/fear
etched on the faces
something is shining
like gold but better
rumours of glory (repeat)

you see the extremes
of what humans can be?
in that distance some tension's born
energy surging like a storm
you plunge your hand in
and draw it back scorched
beneath it's shining like
gold but better
rumours of glory


@SONG: Tropic Moon (4:38)
(From the album "The Trouble With Normal")

Away from the river
Away from the smoke of the burning
Fearful survivors
Subject of government directives
One sad guitar note
Echoes of the wall of the jungle
Seen from the air they're just targets with nowhere to run to

Children of rape
Raised on malnutrition
Men in camouflage
Filled with a sense of mission
Light through the wire mesh
Plays on the president's pistol
Like the gleam of a bead of sweat in the flow of a candle

Hear the cry in the tropic night
Should be the cry of love but it's a cry of fright
Some people never see the light
Till it shines through bullet holes

The tropic moon
Bathing a beach fringed with palms
Glitters on shells
And beach tar and coke cans
And on the night-coloured boat
And on the barrels of guns
In the rage in the hearts of these men is the seed of a wind they call
Kingdom Come

Hear the cry...


@SONG: Yanqui Go Home (4:27)

Yanqui wake up
you know it's time to go
the sun is almost up and we want to be alone

Yanqui head spin
better get some rest
tomorrow we can talk about the way you insulted the guests

Ivan's outside
sulking in the yard
everyone go bad communication when the time gets hard

Not a nice guy
but he's got troubles of his own
anyway it's best if you both just leave the rest of us alone

Yanqui go home
you had too much
better go sleep it off
party's over --
time to meditate on it
time to tally up the cost

Yanqui wake up
don't you see what you're doing
trying to be the Pharoah of the West bringing nothing but ruin

Better start swimming
before you begin to drown
all those petty tyrants in your pocket gonna weigh you down

You're my friend but I say
Yanqui go home
you had too much
better go sleep it off
party's over
time to meditate on it
time to tally up the cost

(1984)


@SONG: Lord Of The Starfields (3:22)
(From the album "In the Falling Dark")

Lord of the starfields
Ancient of Days
Universe Maker
here's a song in your praise.

wings of the storm cloud
beginning and end
you make my heart leap
like a banner in the wind.

O Love that fires the sun
keep me burning.

Lord of the starfields
sower of life,
heaven and earth are
full of your light.

Voice of the nova
smile of the dew
all of our yearning
only comes home to you.

O Love that fires the sun
keep me burning.


@SONG: The Coldest Night Of The Year (3:58)
(From the album "Mummy Dust")

I was up all night, socializing
Trying to keep the latent depression from crystalizing
Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon

And you're not even here
On the coldest night of the year.

I took in Yonge Street at a glance
Heard the punkers playing
Watched the bikers dance
Everybody wishing they could go to the south of France

And you're not even here
On the coldest night of the year.

Hey look at me now
See the shape I'm in
It's taken me so long to catch on to what's going on
Inside this skin
When two lovers really love there's nothing there
But this suddenly compact universe
Skin and breath and hair

I watched the all night TV show
In the all night bar
I drove all the people home
I was the one with the car

Now I'm sitting here alone and sleepless
and wondering where you are
And wishing you were here
On the coldest night of the year.


@SONG: Laughter (3:35)
(From the album "Further Adventures Of")

A laugh for the way my life has gone
a laugh for the love of a friend
a laugh for the fools in the eyes of the world
the love that will never end
Ha Ha Ha...

Let's hear a laugh for the man of the world
who thinks he can make things work
tried to build the New Jerusalem
and ended up with New York
Ha Ha Ha...

A laugh for the sun redballing
through the thermal inversion haze
a laugh for the nuclear good-time boys
numbering all our days
Ha Ha Ha...

A laugh for the newsprint nightmare
a world that never was
where the questions are all "why"
and the answers are all "because"
Ha Ha Ha...

A laugh for the dogs barking at our heels
they don't know where we've been
a laugh for the dirty window pane
hiding the love within
Ha Ha Ha...

Tapping our feet to an ancient tune
a laugh for the time gone by
a laugh for me and Kitty in the delivery room
waiting for the child's first cry
Ha Ha Ha...


@SONG: Joy Will Find A Way (3:50)
(From the album "Joy Will Find A Way")

make me a bed of fond memories
make me to lie down with a smile
everything that rises afterward falls
but all that dies has first to live.

as longing becomes love
as night turns to day
everything changes
joy will find a way


@SONG: The Rose Above The Sky (6:23)
(From the album "Humans")

something jewelled slips away
round the next bend with a splash
laughing at the hands i hold out
only air within their grasp
all you can do is praise the razor
for the fineness of the slash
i see the Rose above the sky
opens
and the light behind the sun
takes all

gutless arrogance and rage
burn apart the best of tries
you carry the weight of inherited sorrow
from your first day till you die
toward that hilltop where the road
forever becomes one with the sky
i see the Rose above the sky
opens
and the light behind the sun
takes all

ozone on the midnight wind
got me thinking of the sea
and the mercies of the currents that brought
me to you and you to me
and in the silence at the heart of things
where all true meetings come to be
i see the Rose above the sky
opens
and the light behind the sun
takes all