Bruce Cockburn - Wondering Where The Lions Are Lyrics






Sun's up... looks okay
The world survives into another day
And I'm thinking 'bout eternity
Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me

I had another dream about lions at the door
They weren't half as frightening as they were before
But I'm thinking 'bout eternity
Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me

Walls, windows, trees, waves coming through
You be in me and I'll be in you
Together in eternity
Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me

Up among the firs where it smells so sweet
Or down in the valley where the river used to be
I got my mind on eternity
Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me

And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
Wondering where the lions are
...

Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake
Thousand year old petroglyphs doing a double take
Pointing a finger at eternity
I'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy

Young men marching, helmets shining in the sun
Polished and precise like the brain behind the gun
Should be, they got me thinking about eternity
But some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me

And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
Wondering where the lions are
Wondering where the lions are
...

Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay
One of these days we're gonna sail away
We're gonna sail into eternity
Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me

And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
Wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
Wondering where the lions are
...





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  1. D.... F....

    I've seen and heard many guitarists in my life...plus I had a career in radio...Bruce is one of the funniest guitarists ever. I love your music...Namaste

  2. J.... J....

    AMAZING SONG..FULL OF SPIRITUAL INSIGHT..GREAT

  3. R.... S....

    What is the tuning here, anyone know?

  4. E.... G....

    Always a classic!!!

  5. S.... C....

    Does anyone know where I can find link Bruce when he appeared on SNL, 1979? Free that is.

  6. J.... A....

    Lyrics made me cry ...!

  7. c.... D....

    0:30 that roguish smile

  8. 5.... ....

    Anyone know the tuning?

  9. C.... J....

    Love this song

  10. p.... M....

    genial, je vous avais vu dans un bar a Quebec en 75 , j avais adoré ....... très beau cadeau merci merci ....

  11. D.... L....

    Absolutely love this track. Speaks so clearly of your spiritual knowing Bruce. It’s inspired and centred me for years.

  12. U.... N....

    I'm just wondering where all the likes are? Bruce surely deserves much more!!! Maybe this Video can make a double take.

  13. m.... a....

    Great song. I haven't heard this for a long time.

  14. R.... A....

    Just love this guy!

  15. K.... M....

    Wonderful! Still awesome for all these years!

  16. r.... ....

    Such a cool song in every aspect, a listen is worth a million words of trying to describe it.

  17. W.... S....

    The verse arranges nearly infinite variations; and returns to the chorus so sweet...peace

  18. j.... ....

    One of the most beautiful songs and do you ever hear it................................the world has missed a trick !!! Just beautiful

  19. E.... i....

    the fuck kind of stupid question is that

  20. E.... i....

    hiding from the mice

  21. J.... R....

    Him and Lawrence Gowan are the two most underrated Canadian musicians of all time.

  22. s.... ....

    It looks like he has his capo right on the fret instead of behind it. Is that something he normally does?

  23. A.... G....

    Man this came up on auto play. I can tell he is a genuine, awesome person. Would love to see him live someday!!

  24. R.... ....

    What do tigers dream of.......

    R.... ....

    This song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_9iWATOveA

  25. n.... ....

    great great great great..

  26. j.... f....

    I went to a high school Stephen Leacock 193-1989 on/off. I miss Leacock lions and care for you all :)

  27. C.... H....

    For some reason I want to throw a can of energy drink at the MC.

  28. C.... L....

    My mom turned me on to this song as a young child . When I hear it i break down remembering how happy it made her. Love you mom . RIP

  29. E.... i....

    sleeping until something is worth my time - i too was wondering about dinner

  30. S.... C....

    Ohh, his guitar playing is epic. One of my top songs from BC. Plus NICARAGUA, HOW I SPENT MY FALL VACATION, RUMOURS OF GLORY, - - -- STEALING FIRE ALBUM! HUMANS- ah hell it just is impossible to narrow it down GREAT POSTING , Thanks. PL&U

  31. R.... L....

    I hope to see you perform soon.

  32. S.... E....

    Craters on the nod... lol

  33. E.... D....

    How in the hell can anyone give this a thumbs down? Seriously? Great voice, great lyrics, great guitar. 1 person with talent. No hordes of dancers and blinding lasers. Seek help.

  34. a.... ....

    that evil monster comercial in the back... are u fucking k,idding me??=?

  35. F.... A....

    Bruce is actually my uncle. They come to my house alot.

  36. G.... L....

    This song is making me so positiv attitude !! Thumbs up !! Kiss from France !!

  37. M.... D....

    Always in my heart.

  38. D.... B....

    So beautiful!

  39. S.... E....

    These men age like fine, fine wine...

  40. S.... E....

    A fave artist...saw him at Toronto's Massey Hall...was excellent!

  41. A.... T....

    Bruce was on Canada Live a couple of months ago

  42. t.... ....

    Reminds me so much of my childhood. Great Song.

  43. R.... G....

    I grew up on Bruce Cocburn. I saw him live in the late 60's in a Montreal coffee shop way before he was known. He was the greatest influence on my subsequent musical career as a singer-songwriter. I learned how to write meaningful lyrics and how to pick a guitar from. That video brings tears to my eyes everytime I watch it.

  44. Y.... B....

    eternity must sounds like this song

  45. R.... A....

    Go Jets Go! Hmmmhmmhpty Hmm! :)

  46. b.... d....

    still got those canuck pipes. or did 7 years ago, anyway.

  47. f.... ....

    Wonderful....just wonderful.

  48. T.... A....

    Bruce Cockburn is a god. No more no less

  49. m.... b....

    Wonderful song Bruce. Well done. Beautiful.

  50. A.... A....

    oh, such an intimate venue and unplugged. So wonderful .

  51. B.... G....

    Great song...love that Manzer guitar!

  52. J.... S....

    just saw his fabulous concert in Edmonton tonight!  Wow!  What an entertainer ........  Thank you, Bruce...

  53. l.... ....

    i love this hoser :)

  54. P.... R....

    Someone once asked Stevie Ray Vaughan what it was like to be the best guitarist in the World. He replied "Go ask Bruce Cockburn!"

    P.... R....

    Loren Victor  I've heard this story many, many times, but with different names in each space.

    P.... R....

    That's cool. I heard Stevie play once (with Albert Collins) but this impresses me; basically he was saying that Bruce MIGHT be an even better guitarist than himself, but then that Bruce would probably say there was someone better than HIMself. I don't think Cockburn would say Clapton.

    P.... R....

    This is funny, I've heard a few names now related to this comment. The main one that I heard was actually when Eddie Van Halen was asked....not sure who it was now, but the bottom line is that Bruce holds an unbelievable amount of respect from some of the greatest musicians

    P.... R....

    @Bill Burnette No! It was Hendrix who named Phil Keagey! :-)

    P.... R....

    I heard it was Eddie Van Halen during a Much Music interview. It was a long time ago and stories can sometimes become distorted. I'm sure several guitarists have said something similar about Cockburn. It's a cool story and testament to Bruce's abilities. If you ask me it should be etched into a petroglyph.

  55. J.... W....

    Adam Clayton from u2 on guitar!

  56. R.... E....

    A brilliant and underrated singer,poet masterful guitar player...Thank you Canada for the gift of Bruce Cockburn...
    Lookin forward to seeing/hearing again this Feb 2018 in Santa Cruz....We need his insight now more than ever.

    R.... E....

    Absolutely agree...he's fantastic...

  57. s.... ....

    The Lions are in Vancouver British Columbia.

  58. E.... M....

    beautifull

  59. J.... P....

    Saw Bruce headline at Home County Music Festival in London Ontario, around 2012. I’ve seen at least 400 live concerts and festivals... his set was so full of songs I, as most Canadians, know without trying it was definitely among the best I’ve seen.

  60. R.... G....

    To the author of this song, Bruce Cockburn...
    With this song you may freely flutter between the Paradise and the Hell...
    In the Paradise you will sing it with Almighty Lord, and this song may become sort of a visit card for you...
    In the Hell it would become a great mitigating remedy for you, and the Demon hearing it, will forget about its duties...

  61. R.... K....

    Bruce graced the birth of our first born son with this song in Dallas, Texas of June 4th, 1980. I had quit my job, traveled to BGSU to enroll in a special ed. masters program and find a house for our budding family. Poor as we were, I taught a couple years and God led us to the Central Pacific to pursue teaching positions at a boarding school earning $385 a month with our baby girl born just before we left for Kiribati. What a wild journey! Fearless to no end, my wife and I, with God's hand upon our shoulder in faith and prayer, pursued an extravagant dream that has yielded a harvest of good works and fulfillment. "Wondering where the lions are?" That's just your godless self telling you that you need to work at it using your own power and playing it safe. Don't do it! Live extravagantly using God's power in faith and holding him responsible for the fulfillment for which he created you to become and be. That's "some kind of ecstasy" when you trust in His power to guide and lead you. My advise, move over and give God a chance in faith & prayer..."I'm thinking about eternity" and you'll wonder where the lions are even through the failures that we all need to fearlessly over come through faith & trust in His spirit, not yours. --KG

  62. P.... G....

    Green guitar <3

  63. g.... ....

    I recently got reminded how much I enjoy BC after not listening for a while.. thank goodness. Now back on my "heavy rotation" list and it's a good thing..

  64. R.... H....

    What a great voice.

  65. B.... ....

    BRUCE  + NIEL   MY  2 FAVE'S   SINGLE ACT'S

  66. M.... W....

    I will soo miss you - Fredericton

  67. S.... B....

    something about lions …
    Once upon a time there lived a woman named Alya. She was the medicine woman in her tribe, using herbs and poultices and spirit ways to help her people. Yet she had one flaw: she hated lions, because a lion had killed her father. Her hatred caused her to cast spells against lions, which caused her husband great concern. He often told Alya that her war with lions was going to get her into big trouble, but she was a medicine woman, she knew the ways of the spirits, and she did not listen to her husband. One day while Alya was out gathering herbs, she spotted a lion sunning himself in tall grasses on the savannah. She hatched a scheme in her mind to sneak up on the lion and cast a spell on him, which would enable her to steal his spirit and have it for herself. As she crept closer to the lion, she began chanting softly and seeing in her mind’s eye her spell taking over the lion. However, she was so focused on what she was doing, that she did not see in her mind’s eye the lion’s mate returning from hunting. Nor did she see the lioness catch her sent, drop her kill from her mouth to the ground, and circle around behind. Too late, Alya realized her peril, just as the lioness took her from behind. Next thing Alya knows, she is in the spirit world, standing before the Lion Spirit. Trembling with terror, Alya wants to run away, but the Lion Spirit speaks to her heart, says, “There is something you do not yet know.” Then Alya is back on the savannah, watching a hunter from her tribe sneaking up on a nest of lion cubs, whose parents are away hunting. The hunter has a twisted spirit, and decides to kill the lion cubs just for the fun of doing it, even though killing any animal just for sport is taboo in his tribe, which worships the Lion Spirit. On returning to his village, the hunter tells no one what he has done. When the lion and lioness return to their nest and find their dead cubs, they are enraged. They catch the hunter’s scent and track him back to the edge of the village, where the lion hides in a thicket and begins roaring and bellowing out his rage over what has happened. The hunter knows why the lion is there, doing that, but still he tells no one. Alya’s father, the tribe’s leader, prepares to go out and face and kill the lion, because it his duty to protect his tribe from marauding lions. And so he sets out to face the lion, even as the hunter lets him go without saying what has happened to bring this about, and that a lioness is also out there with the lion. Alya’s father quickly finds and confronts the lion, and is preparing to kill it with his spear, when he is taken from behind by the lioness. In her horror, Alya helplessly watches on, even as she now realizes that her hatred of lions was completely misplaced. She feels awful. Then suddenly she is back on the savannah, stalking the lion whose spirit she once wanted to steal for herself. The lion looks up, stares into Alya’s eyes. She shakes all over, is terrified, but does not look away. Then something takes hold of her, she says to the lion, “I have lost my father and you have lost your cubs. I will be your cub.” The lion looks deep into Alya’s spirit, nods, says, “And I will be your father, and will always protect your front.” Then beside the lion is the lioness, who says to Alya, “And I will always protect your back.”

    S.... B....

    I wonder if Alya wondered where the lions were.

    Thanks, Sloan. I was expecting a comment about BC's music and instead got a wonderful 🦁 story.

  68. D.... G....

    Rough day...things goin to the shitter....put on some Bruce.....and all is good...

  69. c.... c....

    I don't know but maybe we are relatives

    c.... c....

    Regardless the rate of your supposed relationship with him, each of us - his listeners, beares inside one of his pieces, spread so lavishly...

  70. S.... L....

    30 people who don't care about the lions

  71. J.... ....

    This made me cry for some reason

    J.... ....

    Joyo listened a couple of times last night,cried each time and I dont know why.perhaps we were moved by the same emotion.thank you for sharing.

  72. K.... G....

    This came out in 79, I love his emphasis on soldiers marching with shiny helmets where their brains should be. Still looking out for the lions but time and experience has a way of removing the fear. Thanks Bruce.

  73. P.... G....

    leg end

  74. C.... P....

    Not quite a scat but lovely!

  75. b.... ....

    Any singer who can fit the word "Petroglyphs" into a song is ok with me.

    b.... ....

    Now that's funny....lol

    b.... ....

    Up there with Warren Zevon and "Brucellosis" for me.

    b.... ....

    "Petroglyphs doing a double take" no less

    b.... ....

    I'm with ya. There are too many examples, but for me it's "Call It Democracy" and lines like "deification
    of tyranny by so called "developed" nations', Idolatry of ideology... Who can beat up on the IMF and make it sound cool? Bruce.

    b.... ....

    Just did his hit medley!

  76. B.... P....

    "Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me" .....Brilliant "up among the firs where it smells so sweet"

  77. b.... ....

    The Monster energy drink sponsorship is funny.
    Love the song!

  78. h.... ....

    Excellence!!!

  79. D.... C....

    A craftsman.

  80. D.... c....

    amazing

  81. C.... G....

    Cockburn :3

  82. R.... R....

    Thanks!!!!!

  83. R.... B....

    to me it's worth 4000 likes to me.

  84. G.... ....

    What a legend.

  85. P.... M....

    Additional listen - Van Morrison "Listen to the Lion".

  86. J.... M....

    wow, i love this guy. i always thought it was a michael hedges song before today

  87. C.... S....

    A cabana.

    C.... S....

    Camilla Souza

  88. P.... S....

    So cool.

  89. d.... ....

    Lynn, I will always think of you hearing this... that magical summer.

  90. M.... W....

    I needed this today.

  91. d.... ....

    Beautiful. Thank you.

  92. D.... C....

    Magnificent.

  93. B.... B....

    Charles Williams "Place of the Lion" interesting read and inspirational.. It's where he got this great song from

  94. 1.... ....

    cockburn is a genius

    1.... ....

    sometimes

  95. T.... ....

    This was a nice song back in the day, but solo acoustic is where this song really shines.

  96. m.... d....

    Wonderin,,,Wunderbar.

  97. B.... C....

    I've seen Bruce in about 4 different States in the last 20+ years. I'd follow him to the moon if I could afford it. He's a brilliant musician and a lovely, lovely soul <3

    B.... C....

    I'm guessing you're a lovely soul too.

    B.... C....

    kathy brody cool

    B.... C....

    Bajoobie Cuzican Agree!

    B.... C....

    I feel so lucky. He is my uncle (his second wife is my aunt by blood) and I see them 2 times a year. He actually taught me how to play the guitar :P

    B.... C....

    I have heard the acoustics are horrible up there.