Bruce Cockburn Man Of A Thousand Faces Lyrics

Man Of A Thousand Faces Lyrics

I'm looking to be by a window

That looks out on the sea

Anybody here
know

Where such a place is? 



Surf of golden sunlight

Breaking over me

Man of a thousand faces 



In the Garden
paths take form

But the hailstorm guards its own

Things forbidden,
things unknown

You must travel on alone 



In memorium friends
come round

But the hard ground holds its own

Time for pulling, time
to ride

It's my turn but where's the guide? 



On the jetty
shadows lie

And the gulls cry once or twice

Swelling thunder, truth
is hid

Behind the glass eye of the idol...

Anybody here know

Where such a place is? 



You know, these city towers,

Jewels on the Serpent's crown,

Twist the space between them

Till
every eye is blinded 



Lord will you trade your sunlit ocean

With its writhing filigree

For any one of my thousand faces?