Bruce Cockburn - How I Spent My Fall Vacation lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - How I Spent My Fall Vacation lyrics]
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 shiver
"They never built these places
With winter in mind"
Out the window down the gray road
You can see old walled monastery
Now become a barracks for
The paramilitary police
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I saw an old lady's face
Once on a Japanese train
Half lit, rich with soft luminosity
She was dozing straight upright
Head bobbing almost imperceptibly
The wheels were playing fast in 9 8 time
Her husband's friendly face suddenly folded
Up in a sneeze across the strait a volcano
Flew a white smoke flag of surrender
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In a Roman street on a full moon night
I was sick and there was a young
Cop in a circle of yellow light
As we drew near he snapped the
Safety off his machine pistol and
And slid a trembling finger to the trigger
I wanted to say something calming
But couldn't catch his eye
He didn't want contact he was
Trained to see movement
"Well don't shoot me, man
I'm a graceful slow dancer
I'm just a dream to you not real at all"
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I wonder if I'll end up
Like Bernie in his dream
A displaced person in some
Foreign border town
Waiting for a train part hope part myth
While the station changes hands
Or just sitting at home growing
Tenser with the times
Or like that guy in "The Seventh Seal"
Watching the newly dead dance
Across the hills
Or wearing this leather jacket
Shivering with a friend
While the eye of God blazes
At us like the sun
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Behind icy mist and stark bare trees
Inside the dim empty cinema two
Guys in leather jackets
Glance at each other and shiver
"They never built these places
With winter in mind"
Out the window down the gray road
You can see old walled monastery
Now become a barracks for
The paramilitary police
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh
Uh duh duh duh duh, uh duh duh duh duh
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I saw an old lady's face
Once on a Japanese train
Half lit, rich with soft luminosity
She was dozing straight upright
Head bobbing almost imperceptibly
The wheels were playing fast in 9 8 time
Her husband's friendly face suddenly folded
Up in a sneeze across the strait a volcano
Flew a white smoke flag of surrender
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh
Uh duh duh duh duh, uh duh duh duh duh
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh
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Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh
Uh duh duh duh duh, uh duh duh duh duh
In a Roman street on a full moon night
I was sick and there was a young
Cop in a circle of yellow light
As we drew near he snapped the
Safety off his machine pistol and
And slid a trembling finger to the trigger
I wanted to say something calming
But couldn't catch his eye
He didn't want contact he was
Trained to see movement
"Well don't shoot me, man
I'm a graceful slow dancer
I'm just a dream to you not real at all"
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh
Uh duh duh duh duh, uh duh duh duh duh
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Uh duh duh duh duh, uh duh duh duh duh
I wonder if I'll end up
Like Bernie in his dream
A displaced person in some
Foreign border town
Waiting for a train part hope part myth
While the station changes hands
Or just sitting at home growing
Tenser with the times
Or like that guy in "The Seventh Seal"
Watching the newly dead dance
Across the hills
Or wearing this leather jacket
Shivering with a friend
While the eye of God blazes
At us like the sun
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh
Uh duh duh duh duh, uh duh duh duh duh
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