Songs:
-- Looking And Waiting --
Toronto - 23 January 2016


Found on:

Bone On Bone (2017)
Lyrics:

looking and waiting -- it's what I do
scanning the skies for a beacon from you
shapes on the curtain, but no clear view
of you

you're a warm bright window lighting up the rain
I catch a glimpse of the glow but I still remain
outside where the shadows pool and bleed
chimney silhouettes semaphore in a code I cannot read

looking and waiting -- it's what I do
scanning the skies for a beacon from you
shapes on the curtain, but no clear view
of you

you're like the leaves that come down from the trees
a suggestion of a springtime to be
crunching underfoot outlined in frost
full of promise for the return of something lost

looking and waiting -- it's what I do
scanning the skies for a beacon from you
shapes on the curtain, but no clear viewv of you

looking and waiting -- it's what I do



Musicians
Bruce Cockburn - 12 String Guitar, Mbira and Vocal
John Dymond - Bass
Gary Craig - Drums and Percussion
John Aaron Cockburn - Accordian and Sansula
Colin Linden - Slide Guitar
Brandon Robert Young & The San Francisco Lighthouse Chorus - Vocals



  • From the Bone On Bone press release:

    In "Looking and Waiting,” Cockburn sings of "scanning the skies for a beacon” from the divine.

    "It’s a song of faith and frustration,” says Cockburn of the latter. "…Tired of looking in from the outside. My MO has always been to be aware of the divine…that dimension…always dealing with being stuck in a kind of observer’s position with respect to all that. I know it’s there. I don’t really see as faith so much as knowledge. Others may have different ideas about those things, but for me, I don’t have to struggle to believe in God, or the notion that God cares what happens to me. But I do have to struggle with being in a conscious, intentional relationship. That underlies a lot of these songs.”




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