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2 | |
3 | ->''When you're lovers in a dangerous time\ |
4 | Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime\ |
5 | But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight\ |
6 | Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight'' |
7 | -->-- "'''Lovers in a Dangerous Time'''" |
8 | |
9 | Bruce Douglas Cockburn [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OC]] (pronounced "COH-burn"; born May 27, 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian SingerSongwriter and guitarist known for his spiritual lyrics. |
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12 | !!Discography: |
13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
14 | |
15 | [[folder:Studio albums]] |
16 | * ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Bruce Cockburn]]'' (1970) |
17 | * ''High Winds, White Sky'' (1971) |
18 | * ''Sunwheel Dance'' (1971) |
19 | * ''Night Vision'' (1973) |
20 | * ''Salt, Sun and Time'' (1974) |
21 | * ''Joy Will Find a Way'' (1975) |
22 | * ''In the Falling Dark'' (1976) |
23 | * ''Further Adventures Of'' (1978) |
24 | * ''Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws'' (1979) |
25 | * ''Humans'' (1980) |
26 | * ''Inner City Front'' (1981) |
27 | * ''The Trouble with Normal'' (1983) |
28 | * ''Stealing Fire'' (1984) |
29 | * ''World of Wonders'' (1986) |
30 | * ''Big Circumstance'' (1988) |
31 | * ''Nothing But a Burning Light'' (1991) |
32 | * ''Christmas'' (1993) |
33 | * ''Dart to the Heart'' (1994) |
34 | * ''The Charity of Night'' (1996) |
35 | * ''Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu'' (1999) |
36 | * ''You've Never Seen Everything'' (2003) |
37 | * ''Speechless - The Instrumentals'' (2005) |
38 | * ''Life Short Call Now'' (2006) |
39 | * ''Small Source of Comfort'' (2011) |
40 | * ''Bone on Bone'' (2017) |
41 | * ''Crowing Ignites'' (2019) |
42 | [[/folder]] |
43 | |
44 | [[folder:Live albums]] |
45 | * ''Circles in the Stream'' (1977) |
46 | * ''Bruce Cockburn Live'' (1990) |
47 | * ''You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance'' (1997) |
48 | * ''Slice O Life - Live Solo'' (2009) |
49 | [[/folder]] |
50 | |
51 | ---- |
52 | !! Tropes: |
53 | * AlbumTitleDrop: "Hills of Morning" on ''Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws'' |
54 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In the third verse of "Dancing In Paradise", Bruce goes on an extended diatribe about the terrible things going on in "Paradise". The last observation? |
55 | --> And there's a [[MartialArtsMovie Kung-Fu Movie]] in every town. |
56 | * BilingualBonus: Most of his albums include French translations of his lyrics. A handful of his older albums include at least one song written in French, and his Christmas album includes him singing in Spanish and Huron. |
57 | * BittersweetEnding: "The Rose Above the Sky" |
58 | * ChristmasSongs: "Christmas Song" (on ''Salt, Sun and Time''), "Cry of a Tiny Babe" (on ''Nothing But a Burning Light''). And, of course, the entire ''Christmas'' album. |
59 | * CoverVersion: He ended one of his live albums with a cover of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''. |
60 | * CrapsackWorld: A lot of his more political work has this theme, especially ''The Trouble With Normal'', ''Stealing Fire'', and ''You've Never Seen Everything''. |
61 | * DarkerAndEdgier: ''Humans'' marked a departure from his sunnier earlier work. |
62 | * EmpathicEnvironment: "The Coldest Night of the Year" is about a guy missing his girlfriend on a bitterly cold and dark winter night. |
63 | * GodIsLoveSongs: "All The Diamonds in the World" |
64 | * IntercourseWithYou: "Sahara Gold", "Mango", "Wait No More". |
65 | * NewSoundAlbum: ''The Trouble with Normal'' was noticeably more synth-driven than his earlier works. ''Nothing But a Burning Light'' signaled a move back to a rootsier sound (this and the next album would be produced by T-Bone Burnett). ''The Charity of Night'' was another shift into a more expansive, jazzy sound with more spoken-word pieces. |
66 | * PopStarComposer: He performed the theme song for ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}''. |
67 | * PrecisionFStrike: "You Get Bigger As You Go" ("...too dogshit tired..."), "Call It Democracy" ("It's just spend a buck to make a buck / You don't really give a flying fuck /About the people in misery.") |
68 | ** Funnily enough, Bruce's mother was more upset about his use of "IMF, dirty MF" in the chorus of "Call It Democracy", which generally went unnoticed by the censors. |
69 | ** The last line of "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" is a very emphatic, "If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die!" |
70 | * ProtestSong: Several, including "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" and "Call It Democracy". |
71 | * VocalEvolution: His voice on his earliest albums is a fair bit higher and gentler than what would come later. |
72 | * AWorldHalfFull: Very much so; even his most dour works have an undercurrent of hope. |
73 | * YouCannotKillAnIdea: "Maybe the Poet": |
74 | -->Put him up against the wall\ |
75 | Shoot him up with pentothal\ |
76 | \ |
77 | Shoot him up with lead\ |
78 | You won't call back what's been said\ |
79 | Put him in the ground\ |
80 | But one day you'll look around\ |
81 | \ |
82 | There'll be a face you don't know\ |
83 | Voicing thoughts you've heard before |
84 |
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