Bruce Cockburn Burden Of The Angel-beast Lyrics

Burden Of The Angel-beast Lyrics

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
angelbeast 



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]