Bruce Cockburn Prenons La Mer Lyrics

Prenons La Mer Lyrics

Smoky afternoon light

Got the sun stuck in my eye

It's shouting from
the river

Then it leaps back in the sky 



Prenons la mer

Sur les vagues solaires --

Toi et moi parmi les esprits de la lumiere*




*TRANSLATION:

"Let us take to the sea

On waves of
sunlight

You and I among the spirits of light" 



This morning
in the past

Y'know I felt like broken glass

Now I'm feeling all
right

Knife-sharp as a winter night 



Prenons la mer

Sur les vagues solaires --

Toi et moi parmi les esprits de la lumiere




J'ai reve que les abeilles

Etaient des gouttes de sang du
soleil

Et au ciel des bombardiers

Pechaient pour nos ames irisees**




**TRANSLATION:

"I dreamt that the bees

Were drops of
blood from the sun

And the bombers in the sky

Were trawling for our
iridescent souls" 



Prenons la mer

Sur les vagues solaires
--

Toi et moi parmi les esprits de la lumiere