Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Lyrics

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"

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