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Bruce Douglas Cockburn 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 including human rights, environmental issues, politics, and Christianity.

Cockburn has written more than 300 songs on 33 albums over a career spanning 40 years, of which 22 have received a Canadian gold or platinum certification as of 2018, and he has sold over one million albums in Canada alone. In 2014, Cockburn released his memoirs, Rumours of Glory. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. May 1945
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Famous Bruce Cockburn Quotes

“These fragile bodies of touch and taste
This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
Spirits open to the thrust of grace
Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
Lovers in a dangerous time
Lovers in a dangerous time...”

Bruce Cockburn

Stealing Fire (1984)

“Had another dream about the lions at the door
They were not half as frightening as they were before
But I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me
Walls, windows, trees, waves coming through
You be in me I'll be in you
Together in eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me
Up among the firs where it smells so sweet
Or down in the valley were the river used to be
I got my mind on eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me, and I'm
Wondering where the lions are and I'm
Wondering where the lions are…”

Bruce Cockburn

Wondering Where the Lions Are, Track 6 (See also:Ottawa Valley and Algonquin Park)
Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws (1979)

“Catching the light and falling into dark
And the world fades out like an overheard remark…
In the falling dark”

Bruce Cockburn

Title track, In The Falling Dark (See also: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 62-63) Just Listen.. http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=lYAFzVTLIQs
In the Falling Dark (1976)

“Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
you got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight”

Bruce Cockburn

Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Track 1
Stealing Fire (1984)

“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 harbor town
Lost the taste for being free
Thank God he sent some gull chased ship
To carry me to sea…”

Bruce Cockburn

All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1
Salt, Sun and Time (1974)

“Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by?”

Bruce Cockburn

Stealing Fire (1984)

“If this were the last night of the world
What would I do
What would I do that was different
Unless it was champagne with you…”

Bruce Cockburn

Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (1999)

“Last Night of the World”

Bruce Cockburn

Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (1999)

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