song: A Dream Like Mine
artist: Bruce Cockburn
album: Nothing but a Burning Light
released: 1991-11-05length: 3:41
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can take you down
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can push you around
Today I dream of how it used to be
Things were different before
The picture shifts to how it's going to be
Balance restored
When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can take you down
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can push you around
Beautiful rocks -- beautiful grass
Beautiful soil where they both combine
Beautiful river -- covering sky
Never thought of possession, but all this was mine
When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can take you down
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can push you around
Nobody can take you down
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can push you around
Today I dream of how it used to be
Things were different before
The picture shifts to how it's going to be
Balance restored
When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can take you down
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can push you around
Beautiful rocks -- beautiful grass
Beautiful soil where they both combine
Beautiful river -- covering sky
Never thought of possession, but all this was mine
When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can take you down
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can push you around
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Douglas Cockburn ( KOH-bərn; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to folk- and jazz-influenced rock to soundscapes accompanying spoken stories. His lyrics reflect interests in spirituality, human rights, environmental issues, and relationships, and describe his experiences in Central America and Africa.
Cockburn has written more than 350 songs on 34 albums over a career spanning five decades, of which 22 have received a Canadian gold or platinum certification as of 2018, and he has sold more than one million albums in Canada alone. In 2014, Cockburn released his memoirs, Rumours of Glory.
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Underappreciated. Period. I give him 10's a lot, because his music just resonates with me.
I was at the same show!! Such a great night!
terrapin52 wrote:
This is dubious, especially since he is from Canada, Tex.
He didn't say it was the same "Cockburn", just "a Cockburn".
Glad to see folks enjoying my homeboy.
His body of work holds up very well.
I have had the privilege of seeing him live, both in the acoustic, contemplative phase and the later electric, rock-out that anger and frustration stage. Never did see him booed off the stage at Le Hibou in downtown Ottawa (near the Mint, it used to be). Glad Bruce hung in. He's one of the best.
This is dubious, especially since he is from Canada, Tex.
Any chance EssexTex could be from Essex County in Ontario, nearby to where Mr. Cockburn grew up?
Many also mistake Jakob Dylan for Bruce.
I have such vivid memories of seeing Bruce at Goucher College in Maryland on this tour in 1991. Sam Phillips opened up for him, with Marc Ribot playing guitar for her (it would've been so great to have seen Mark Heard back her up on the guitar, but he had to leave the tour early due to his father's death). It was T Bone Burnett's birthday on the night of the show, and Sam and Bruce brought him out on stage and sang to him (along with the audience). A beautiful, brilliant moment in time.
Terrific story! I saw Bruce twice in the last couple of weeks. He's really getting up there in years....walking bent over with a cane...but when he sits down and picks up the guitar, he's still a Young Lion!
Touché!
Well, some of us grow up in one place and then.... we move to a better place.