Bruce Cockburn Youve Never Seen Everything Lyrics

Youve Never Seen Everything Lyrics

Nobodys making me say this

Im talking to you

Been traveling 17
hours

Irradiated by signals, by images

of viruses, of virtues

like everyone

Like exiled angels we swing out of the clouds

Above night city 

Fields of light broken by the curve of dark
waterways 



On the other side of the world

an unhappy teenage
girl sets fire

to herself, her house, her neighbourhood and some that
dwell therein

Sorry simulacrum of sad dawn 



Youve never seen
everything 



Sleep of the just, sleep of reason, any damn kind of
sleep please!

Im trying to balance on a sloping bed in Naples

or is
it Skopje? I forget

Through the thin hotel wall a man groans in his dreams




And on the other side of the world

the drug squad busts a
childs birthday party

Put bullets in the family dog and the blood goes
all over the baby

And the Mounties are strip-searching schoolgirls

because they can 



And a car crashes and burns on an offramp
from the Gardiner

Two dogs in the back seat die, and in the front

a
man and his mother

Forensics reveals the lady has pitchfork wounds in her
chest 

Pitchfork!

And that the same or a similar instrument has
been screwed to the dash 

to make sure the driver goes too 



Youve never seen everything 



I see:

A leader of the
people with a ring in his nose

And the leaders of business tell him which
way to go

With thugs on the golden chain which once led the golden calf

And were supposed to be impressed with their success

But my mind goes
blank before the unbelievable indifference

shown life

spirit

the future

anything green

anything just 



Bad
pressure coming down

Tears  what we really traffic in

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