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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bruce_cockburn.jpg]]
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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'''"
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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:
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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)
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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)
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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\
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82	There'll be a face you don't know\
83	Voicing thoughts you've heard before
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