Bruce Cockburn Shipwrecked At The Stable Door Lyrics

Shipwrecked At The Stable Door Lyrics

The man who twirled with rose in teeth

Has his tongue tied up in thorns

His once expanded sense of time and

Space all shot and torn

See
him wander hat in hand -

"Look at me, I'm so forlorn -

Ask anyone
who can recall

It's horrible to be born!" 



Big Circumstance
comes looming

Like a darkly roaring train -

Rushes like a sucking
wound

Across a winter plain

Recognizing neither polished shine

Nor spot nor stain -

And wherever you are on the compass rose

You'll never be again 



Left like a shadow on the step

Where the body was before -

Shipwrecked at the Stable Door    



Big Circumstance has brought me here -

Wish it would send me
home

Never was clear where home is

But it's nothing you can own

It can't be bought with cigarettes

Or nylons or perfume

And all
the highest bidder gets

Is a voucher for a tomb 



Blessed are
the poor in spirit -

Blessed are the meek

For theirs shall be the
kingdom

That the power mongers seek

Blessed are the dead for
love

And those who cry for peace

And those who love the gift of
earth -

May their gene pool increase 



Left like a shadow on
the step

Where the body was before -

Shipwrecked at the Stable
Door