Bruce Cockburn - When You Give It Away lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - When You Give It Away lyrics]
Slid out of my dreams like a
Baby out of the nurse's hands
Onto the hard floor of day
I'd been wearing OJ's gloves
And I couldn't get them off
It was too early, but I couldn't sleep
Showered and dressed and stepped
Out into the heat
The parrot things on the porch next door
Announced my arrival on Chartres Street
With their finest rendition
Of squealing brakes
Down at Kaldi's Café the newspaper
Headlines promised new revelations
About Prince Charles' Amex account
A morose young man in
Old-time Austrian drag stared
Past his long mustache at the floor
And last night's punks and fetish kids
All tattoos and metal bit's
And in the other corner
Wearing the white trunks
Today's tourists, already sweating
Deep in the city of the saints and fools
Pearls before pigs and dung become jewels
I sit down with tigers, I sit down with lambs
None of them know who exactly I am
I've got this thing in my heart
I must give you today it only lives when you
Give it away
Languid mandala of the ceiling fan
Teases the air like a slow stroking hand
Study the faces, study the cards
Study the shadow creeping over the yard
I've got this thing in my heart
I must give you today it only lives when you
Give it away
Trouble with the nations
Trouble with relations
Where you going to go for some illumination?
Too much to carry, too much to let go
Time goes fast, learning goes slow
But I've got this thing in my heart
I must give you today it only lives when you
Give it away i've got this thing in my heart
I must give you today it only lives when you
Give it away give it away
Baby out of the nurse's hands
Onto the hard floor of day
I'd been wearing OJ's gloves
And I couldn't get them off
It was too early, but I couldn't sleep
Showered and dressed and stepped
Out into the heat
The parrot things on the porch next door
Announced my arrival on Chartres Street
With their finest rendition
Of squealing brakes
Down at Kaldi's Café the newspaper
Headlines promised new revelations
About Prince Charles' Amex account
A morose young man in
Old-time Austrian drag stared
Past his long mustache at the floor
And last night's punks and fetish kids
All tattoos and metal bit's
And in the other corner
Wearing the white trunks
Today's tourists, already sweating
Deep in the city of the saints and fools
Pearls before pigs and dung become jewels
I sit down with tigers, I sit down with lambs
None of them know who exactly I am
I've got this thing in my heart
I must give you today it only lives when you
Give it away
Languid mandala of the ceiling fan
Teases the air like a slow stroking hand
Study the faces, study the cards
Study the shadow creeping over the yard
I've got this thing in my heart
I must give you today it only lives when you
Give it away
Trouble with the nations
Trouble with relations
Where you going to go for some illumination?
Too much to carry, too much to let go
Time goes fast, learning goes slow
But I've got this thing in my heart
I must give you today it only lives when you
Give it away i've got this thing in my heart
I must give you today it only lives when you
Give it away give it away