Bruce Cockburn January In The Halifax Airport Lounge Lyrics

January In The Halifax Airport Lounge Lyrics

Distant times in distant lands

Worthless money changing hands

"Changing them to what?" -- I wonder

As in the dust the jet plane
thunders

Carries every feeling into gloom

I miss you like I miss
the flowers in bloom 



There's a crisis in the outer world

In
the sky the smoke trails curl

Some Winnipeg boys are Cyprus-bound

I
hope they live to touch home ground

I hope we live to touch, if just once
more

I need you like the river needs the shore 



In life so
delicate and strange

Understanding seldom comes in range

We stumble
through familiar scenes

Never thinking what it means,

In this
cluttered landscape to be loved

I need you like I need the stars above