bruce cockburn
Bruce Cockburn, born 27th of May 1945 in Ottawa, Canada, has been called "Canada's best preserved secret" - so he maybe was for many years. But after 60 years in business and a pile of quality productions, he's not a secret no more. He's just hardly accessible for people with less skill in music than himself - he requires concentration listening to, and most of the time his songs are impossible to play. This one, from album "Dancing in the Dragons Jaws", is an exception. Both song and album (True North 1979) became his international breakthrough.
sun's up • uhuh : looks okay
the world survives into another day
and I'm thinking about eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
had another dream about lions at the door
they weren't half as frightening as they were before
but I'm thinking about eternity
and 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 ecstacy 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
and some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
... and I'm wondering where the lions are ...
huge orange flying boat rises off the lake
thousand year old petroglyphs doing a double take
pointing a finger at eternity
and I'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy
young men marching • helmets shining in the sun
polished and precise like the brain behind the gun should be
got me thinking about eternity
and some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
... and 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
and some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
... and I'm wondering where the lions are ...
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Chords in brackets may be omitted.
D sun's up uhuh looks okay Gmaj7 Em7 the world survives into another day D and I'm thinking about eternity Em7 D some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me G ...Em7 and I'm wondering where the lions are D wondering where the lions are G ...Em7...D wondering where the lions are
