Bruce Cockburn - Dart To the Heart

Burden of the Angel/Beast

From the lying mirror to the movement of stars
Everybody's looking for who they are
Those who know don't have the words to tell
And the ones with the words don't know too well

Chorus:

Could be the famine
Could be the feast
Could be the pusher
Could be the priest
Always ourselves we love the least
That's the burden of the angel/beast

Birds of paradise -- birds of prey
Here tomorrow, gone today
Cross my forehead, cross my palm
Don't cross me or I'll do you harm

[Chorus]

We go crying, we come laughing
Never understand the time we're passing
Kill for money, die for love
Whatever was God thinking of?

[Chorus]



Credits
Writer(s): Bruce Cockburn
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Listen For the Laugh
  2. All the Ways I Want You
  3. Bone In My Ear
  4. Burden of the Angel/Beast
  5. Scanning These Crowds
  6. Southland of the Heart
  7. Train In the Rain
  8. Someone I Used To Love
  9. Love Loves You Too
  10. Sunrise On the Mississippi

All Album Tracks: Dart To the Heart >

Altri album

  1. O Sun O Moon
  2. Haiku
  3. On a Roll - Single
  4. Colin Went Down To the Water - Single
  5. Us All - Single
  6. Rarities
  7. Going Down The Road
  8. The Whole Night Sky
  9. Avalon, My Hometown
  10. Greatest Hits (1970-2020)

All Albums of Bruce Cockburn >

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