(CHORUS:) When you've got a dream like mine Nobody can take you down When you've got a dream like mine Nobody can push you around Today I dream of how it used...

Sky-wild Far cry Wings-slash-free Christ is born for you and me Wind rush Reed bend Storm tossed sea Christ is nailed upon a tree Mists part Sunrise Shining k...

Can't trace this conversation -- Words fragment and fall Into blue shadows by a white-baked wall Through shimmering spaces a single thrush calls -- A song when ...

I turned on the TV war news Just to look and wonder why Thunder crashed and red flash-flowers bloomed a nightmare in the sky So I went down to the cafe Just to...

After the rain in the streets light flows like blood I can just taste salt on the humid wind Here comes that gasoline Spreading hungry rainbow over shiny black...

The village idiot takes the throne His the wind in which all must sway All sane people, die now Be lifted up and carried away Youve got no home in this world of...

All the diamonds in this world That mean anything to me Are conjured up by wind and sunlight Sparkling on the sea I ran aground in a harbour town Lost the tast...

The hills are full of secrets Owls watch by night Down in town the bars are full And the drunks are picking fights These are things I know But the facts are fil...

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 sof...

Some things in life are bad, they can really make you mad Other things can make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble -- give...

Midnight flight Fullmoon light Laughter in the air It's a party all right Slate-blue clouds Iridescent sea I'm heading for you And you're headed for me and we ...

Tomorrow may come, it usually does Don't know what it will bring to the two of us I just want you to know What I'm ready to do Anything, anytime, anywhere For ...

You could have gone off the Bloor Street viaduct I could have been run down in the street You could have got botulism anytime I could have gone overboard into t...

Arrows of light, come Pierce my soul Pierce my soul Breath of the bright wind Make us one Make us one Life is singing Like a great bell ringing

Mon corps se pence Ma main s'entends Prends du gravier Un morcean blanc de coquille Pour un instant Un mugissement L'antique mer Rempli cet espace qui a ete le...

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 cre...

Dull twilight spits hesitant sulphur rain Sky been down around our ears for weeks Only once -- gap-glimpsed moon over that anal-retentive border wall As we laug...

Birmingham Just behind the mountain Sparse streelamps glow in hot half-moon haze Shadows shorten into little black pools that elongate behind We walk, talk some...

I found my thrill On Blueberry Hill On Blueberry Hill When I found you The moon stood still On Blueberry Hill And lingered until My dreams came true The wind ...

There's a bone in my ear Keeps singing your name Sometimes it's like pleasure Sometimes it's like pain It's a small voice and quiet But I hear it plain There's ...

Geese come rushing on a river of wind In the bright sky, bright sky Wild music ripples like a wake behind In the bright sky, bright sky Go higher, go higher w...

Way out on the rim of the galaxy The gifts of the Lord lie torn Into whose charge the gifts were given Have made it a curse for so many to be born This is my tr...

From the lying mirror to the movement of stars Everybody's looking for who they are Those who know don't have the words to tell And the ones with the words don'...

Look away across the bay Yankee gunboat come this way Uncle Sam gonna save the day Come tomorrow we all gonna pay And it's burn baby burn When am I going to ge...

padded with power here they come international loan sharks backed by the guns of market hungry military profiteers whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smear...

When you ride out of the shining sky To claim the ones who love you Can I go with you? Can I go with you? When the angel shouts from the heart of the sun And t...

Sun climbs toward high noon, Glints metallic off the bowl of the spoon Sliding through the air toward parted lips Watch the expression when the straight taste h...

Here come those silver celestial horses Rays of the moon in the mountain air Im steeped in the stream of the last wild hot spring Maybe Im melting but I dont ca...

Living in the past Is not living at all The old fear going fast Everybody's scared to fall Turn with the times Change your mind Sullen and profane The ancient ...

I love the pounding of hooves I love engines that roar I love the wild music of waves on the shore And the spiral perfection of a hawk when it soars Love my swe...

Fire-bright faces in winter night A dog in the distance barks The sky speaks in patterns of starlight The fire replies in sparks The stream is a motionless mome...

I need a helmet to protect my head I need earphones to hear what gets said I need a miracle to keep this little thread from snapping I know a lot about alienate...

You tell me tomorrow may be coming Sometimes I wonder if it hasn't already been But like the firebreathing rebel I'm not sure what I mean All I know is you're n...

There you go Swimming deeper into mystery Here I remain Only seeing where you used to be Stared at the ceiling 'Til my ears filled up with tears Never got to kn...

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...

Mary grows a child without the help of a man Joseph gets upset because he doesn't understand Angel comes to Joseph in a powerful dream Says God did this and you...

Praying mantis on screen Canoes prowl reef in early morning sun As it flashes on the rhythmic fall of weed cutter's cutlass blade Everybody's got something to s...

Deja vu Glass cafe faces Fade into the wash Of brick-dust-yellow afternoon Deja vu Slow lines on pages Shape words like echoes Of a ball bounced in an empty str...

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 n...

in front of a newborn moon pushing up its glistening dome I kiss these departing companions, take the next step alone I just said goodnight to the closest thing...

Amid the rumours and the expectations and all the stories dreamt and lived Amid the clangour and the dislocation and things to fear and to forgive Dont forget a...

don't want to be on no rooftop frying in the afternoon sun don't want to sit by no fountain listening to the man-made stream run just want to stand where the se...

In front of a newborn moon pushing up its glistening dome I kiss these departing companions - take the next step alone I just said goodnight to the closest thin...

Sweet wind blowing off the bay Sweeping the heat of the day away Making the leaves of the palm trees sway Down here tonight everything's okay Net's coming in an...

Down in yon forest be a hall Sing May Queen May sing Mary 'Tis is coverleted over with purple and pall Sing all good men for the new born baby Oh, in that hall ...

battered buses jammed up to the roof dust and diesel the prevailing themes farmer sleeping on the truck in front, feet trailing over like he's trolling for drea...

It could have been me put the thorns in your crown Rooted as I am in a violent ground How many times have I turned your promise down Still you pour out your lov...

Early on one Christmas morn Jesus Christ the son was born Singing carols, Christmas songs Early on one Christmas morn Early on one Christmas morn Jesus Christ t...

You knelt on the carpet, crimson and stained Light trickled over your black dress like rain Your lips were hot and my shocked heart screamed And I can't scrape ...

Moon of plenty, moon of mischance Itll be what you want but you cant stop the dance Try to count the steps and they change while you stare And the translucent m...

Fascist architecture of my own design Too long been keeping my love confined You tore me out of myself alive Those fingers drawing out blood like sweat While th...

Cloud pillars clinging like vines to the sky Don't cry We'll walk down the meadow with sunrise inside So dry your eyes The winds of all kingdoms meet where we s...

Fascist architecture of my own design Too long been keeping my love confined You tore me out of myself alive Those fingers drawing out blood like sweat While t...

At the feast of fools Humour can sometimes be cruel But under certain conditions You have to forget the rules At the feast of fools Everybody has a voice Nobod...

Feet fall on the road Bound to motion Though chains be of gold They are chains all the same Traveler on the bridge Awakens to find It's not the river that flows...

An elegant song won't hold up long When the palace falls and the parlour's gone We all must leave but it's not the end We'll meet again at the festival of frien...

Got no social graces Never know my place Ine thing I am sure of You can't judge a man by his race Birth don't come easy Freedom doesn't come cheap Rules and wor...

working out on Gavin's woodpile safe within the harmony of kin visions begin to crowd my eyes like a meteor shower in the autumn skies and the soil beneath me s...

(I woke up thinking about Turkish drummers It didn't take long - I don't know much about Turkish drummers - But it made me think of Germany and the guy who sol...

Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born While shepherds kept their watching O'er silent fl...

Night comes The mask of the world Resolves into round bits of silver on the table Round arrow nocked against the bow Round fruit devoured by time While the moon...

Look out the window, what do I see? cows hangin' out under spreading trees ZOOM! they're gone behind the sign white letters pointing to the long white line and ...

She moves like a golden serpent all day long Moves like a golden serpent all day long She lights the candle when the day is gone She likes to give me honey whe...

tabloids bellowing raw delight hail the return of the Teutonic Knights inbred for purity and spoiling for a fight another little puppet of the New Right see-th...

Evening sun slants across the road Painting everything with gold I'm headed for home, got a woman there I can barely wait to hold Got wind in my hair, got the h...

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 Gri...

Ships moving into this cave of cloud Out of the white light up river At a certain point you can only die High contrast resolution Of wet rock and new snow Thes...

Good day to you Fat balloon man May you always have air You sing a song everybody can believe Good day to you Uncle tom cat Out to trick the whole world You ca...

He came from the mountain To walk among the wounded They couldn't see him But the snow did melt whenever he passed by He came behind winter His face was like th...

High winds White sky Wild birds do glide Tattered smoke fades Embers in the pipe Move like Life beginning High winds Pyramids Glittering ring Blood of the king...

Underneath the mask of the sulphur sky A bunch of us were busy waiting, Watching the people looking ill-at-ease, Watching the fraying rope get closer to breakin...

On attends Quelque chose Peut etre le vent Ou l'ouverture d'une rose Moi je suis en courant En courant La cite Bouche-bee Semble de boire La voie lactee Moi je...

Tokyo jetlag evening walking Out of my throat appears this chuckle A true 20th Century sound A little crazed and having no tonal centre The echoes of this laugh...

Sun went down looking like the eye of God Behind icy mist and stark bare trees Inside the dim empty cinema two guys in leather jackets Glance at each other and ...

I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas day, on Christmas day I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas day in the morning And who do you think was ...

Languid mandala of the ceiling fan moving air like a slow stroking hand music drifts in like the embassy of afternoons sullen sensuality i wanna dance with you ...

Rain forest Mist and mystery Teeming green Green brain facing labotomy Climate control centre for the world Ancient cord of coexistence Hacked by parasitic gree...

here comes the helicopter -- second time today everybody scatters and hopes it goes away how many kids they've murdered only god can say if i had a rocket launc...

And the lights lie tumbled out like gems The moon is nothing but a toothless grin Floating out on the evening wind The smell of sweat and lube oil pervades the ...

I sneaked across the border -- it was threatening rain -- So I could stand in this tunnel, waiting for the roaring train And watch those black kids working out ...

Out in the desert where the wind never stops A few simple people try to grow a few crops Trying to maintain a life and a home On land that was theirs before the...

Heavy northern autumn sky mist on forest dark spruce, bright maple and the great lake rolling forever to the narrow gray beach I look west along the red road of...

It came upon the midnight clear That glorious song of old From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, F...

heard the rooster crowing couldn't see no dawn but i know it won't be long to keep the fire burning ain't no easy game but we'll do it just the same i'm going...

(From the album "Sunwheel Dance") go tell the sergeant-major to get that thing repaired they're losing their pawns in Asia there's slaughter in every square oh...

Distant times in distant lands Worthless money changing hands "Changing them to what?" -- I wonder As in the dust the jet plane thunders Carries every feeling i...

(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 ...

What's been done in the name of Jesus? What's been done in the name of Buddha? What's been done in the name of Islam? What's been done in the name of man? What'...

When thoughts rush by And your signals seem to fly Keep it open Keep it open And help me keep mine open too Some will lie behind But we needn't be unkind Keep ...

And the President said to Kit Carson: "Take my best four horsemen please And ride out to the four directions, Make my great lands barren for me" Kit Carson sai...

The crescent moon is rising slow Swiftly blades in ice do grow On the branches star-bleached snow Waits while time is passing Outside the door the dancer whirl...

I'm sipping Flor De Caa* and lime juice, it's three am Blow a fruit fly off the rim of my glass The radio's playing Superchunk and the friends of Dean Martinez ...

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'...

Les anges dans nos campagnes Ont entonn l'hymne des cieux Et l'cho de nos montagnes Redit ce chant mlodieux Gloria in excelsis Deo! Bergers, pour qui cette fte ...

Ehstehn yayau deh tsaun we yisus ahattonnia O na wateh wado:kwi nonnwa 'ndasqua entai hnau sherskwa trivota nonnwa 'ndi yaun rashata Iesus Ahattonnia, Ahattonni...

Judge said to the hooker, "Can you come out to play? I've been condemning people all day long, that's how I get paid My dreams are full of criminals frolicking ...

My canoe lies on the water Evening holds the bones of day The sun like gold dust slips away One by one antique stars Herald the arrival of Their pale protectre...

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 inte...

Waves can't break without rocks that dissolve into sand We can't dance without seasons upon which to stand Eden is a state of rhythm like the sea Is a timeless ...

She is passing in a warm breeze bars of light that cross the floor one smoke-gray, curled, tiny feather skips aside By her middle hang the keys made to open an...