Bruce Cockburn A Long Time Love Song Lyrics

A Long Time Love Song Lyrics

Can't trace this conversation --

Words fragment and fall

Into blue
shadows by a white-baked wall.

Through shimmering spaces a single thrush
calls --

A song when it's over is no song at all 



And you
know I long to feel that sail

Leaping in the wind

And i long to see
what lies beyond that rim

Oh, ever-new lover and friend

Sing me that
love song again. 



Time measured in summersaults

And
flickering kids' play --

Cross-world and southward it's a fine summer
day

Translucent life-span evaporates away

To bead on the cool grass
in a cyclic ballet