Bruce Cockburn - Incandescent Blue lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - Incandescent Blue lyrics]
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 kung fu moves if you don't want to
Be the horses' hoofprints
You got to be the hooves
Hear that lonesome violin play
See the notes float up into the overcast
And change to white birds as
They sail on through and soar away free
Into incandescent blue
People getting ready behind all
Those rectangles of light
"Put on your grin mask, babe
You know we're steppin' out tonight, yeah"
You hear that sound, like hammers only small?
It's what the people's heads say
When they beat them against the wall
Hear that lonesome violin play
See the notes float up into the overcast
And change to white birds as
They sail on through and soar away free
Into incandescent blue
Concrete vortex sucks down the wind
It's howling like a blinded violin
Oh, tongues of fire, come and kiss my brow
If I ever needed you well I need you now
Hear that lonesome violin play
See the notes float up into the overcast
And change to white birds as
They sail on through and soar away free
Into incandescent blue
It was threatening rain
So I could stand in this tunnel
Waiting for the roaring train
And watch those black kids working
Out kung fu moves if you don't want to
Be the horses' hoofprints
You got to be the hooves
Hear that lonesome violin play
See the notes float up into the overcast
And change to white birds as
They sail on through and soar away free
Into incandescent blue
People getting ready behind all
Those rectangles of light
"Put on your grin mask, babe
You know we're steppin' out tonight, yeah"
You hear that sound, like hammers only small?
It's what the people's heads say
When they beat them against the wall
Hear that lonesome violin play
See the notes float up into the overcast
And change to white birds as
They sail on through and soar away free
Into incandescent blue
Concrete vortex sucks down the wind
It's howling like a blinded violin
Oh, tongues of fire, come and kiss my brow
If I ever needed you well I need you now
Hear that lonesome violin play
See the notes float up into the overcast
And change to white birds as
They sail on through and soar away free
Into incandescent blue