“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)

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Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter 1945

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