Cockburn, Bruce - Loner Lyrics

this song and ''Rose above the sky ' cut deep deep deep

Bruce OUT there in the music field....unique

one of the best songs ever written. EVER. Still cuts deep.

This. You could say more, but why? Just listen.

Can anyone help me out with tuning and chords on this song?

Such a brillant song

Amazing and I relate🇨🇦❤️

Excellent violin, piano and everything

Excellent guutar on loner afrer his divorce

I'm here again... Gees, a year ago I was here... Does my heart cry out every December? Awesome song, f'sure! One sided conversations and instant cosmic dusty headlines and lovely how the wind and guitar whine me down... Oh, God, can this all be so beautiful and then hurt so bad? So good... I know I'm not the only one here... Oh, sad day... God, please, please, help me... I don't want to cry anymore about how awesome it all is... So big and frightening and so demanding of my absolute submission to the whole... knowing your gentle touch upon my soul and feeling the steely taste of wounds yet to heal... Only Thouest knowest that I require myself ultimately to remind myself, yet again, that I'm not the only one... and sowing faith and love into the cosmic dust may root and shoot for the stars and the moon and the Sun! How I love this song... I wanna come back here again one day... I wanna write my name in the sands of time again... Thanks God! I know you like this song, too!

I'm here again... the spiral is getting smaller, or am further away from myself?

here again. year after year.

And when I've drunk in enough air, and my body sags, I sometimes find myself here... If not for you lyrics come to mind... aren't we all just loners? Guess that's the mystery of loving one's self first before someone else can love you... Me, my Self is also confused... We smoked too much, I joke with myself... If he doesn't blow your mind with his song, then I don't know what will? Awesome! I go up like wisps of smoke, curling away from this, whatever it is.... hello... goodbye.... no matter what he looks like, I fall with him... and then I'm lost in the perfect curve of the bullet as it heads straight for me, and there's nothing I can do to stop it... How does one stop falling in love? It must be so irritating to those who are not... and this poor world seems to have fallen out of love with itself.... but that is only my loners' point of view... oi...

I appreciate both of your comments left here. I read your words and have insights to offer. I wonder if you are on privacy violating fb. I may remember to look.

In any case, with the mention of helplessly falling in love. I relate. I can tell you that we have a specific design. Men have a specific design. When we make decisions that violate our design the deception that we accepted in order to violate our design continues and we undermine our own pursuit of happiness without even knowing it. Then we become manipulated by our increasingly inappropriate emotions. Without spiritual knowledge, our culture's flaky ideas about romantic relationships are embraced and most people cycle through meeting and dating, break-ups and make-ups, marrying and divorcing, rebounds and swearing off forevers. Our Designer, with one exception, this is my assessment, my words: our Creator never wanted anyone to suffer a broken heart, except in cases of death. Of course mourning in that case is appropriate. In Proverbs there's a verse that says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick." That's where the word heartsick comes from.

Our Designer intended for all sexual intimacy to take place in the safety of a marriage only. Except for death, no heartbreak there. The act of intimacy is meant to maximize satisfaction and happiness in marriage and is a gift from God. The sexual relationship between a husband and wife is sacred. In any other circumstance sexual activity causes unnecessary emotional vulnerability without security and its misuse causes changes in men and women that are not discerned. Feelings become our guide and feelings are too often wrong.

God wants the best for us. We just need to allow Him to forgive us, (He must wait until we ask for forgiveness because He can't violate our free will), and to heal us and to guide us when we seek Him, find Him and become born-again, born of the spirit, like Jesus said. We are born in a fallen state and we are all naturally resistant to God, but can resist being resistant when we want more than perpetual heartbreak.

Jesus is who He said/says he is. Bruce Cockburn is a Christian. He backslid, I backslid. But I believe he must have returned like I did. The Bible says, "A bruised Reed He will not crush". When you encounter Jesus you will understand that He is what you have always been looking for. And His love matters. It changes you. It is meaningful. Then life begins. Colors will seem brighter when the residue of everything wrong is erased. And love can be realized.

This guy blows my fucking mind!
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great !!!

poet with Justice amazing I love you Bruce your the man ...

He's the real deal.

"event horizon"( at black holes). This term was coined not long before Bruce's usage on this.

The term was coined in 1956. This album was released in 1981.

@brianl890 I love this song, checkk out the video I made, I returned home after 17 years away, walked the streets, played music with old friends, listened to bruce.

gotta love Bruce - this is such a great song!!!!!!!!!!! He is such an amazing poet - thx Bruce!!!! Hugh Marsh on violin - excellent!!

gotta love Bruce - this is such a great song!!!!!!!!!!! He is such an amazing poet - thx Bruce!!!!

gotta love Bruce - this is such a great song!!!!!!!!!!! thx Bruce!!!!

Amazing, a guiding light throughout my life.

@MrMusicalsoul, I wonder if you are referring to the section of the song about 4 minutes in where the narrator seems to be acknowledging someone who has left his life - the part about the "Event horizon". If you mean that the sadness and meaningless noise of this peace reflects that sadness of loss, I would agree with you.

Such a fantastic album.

Wild shadows acid verbs
Eyelids opening in my heart
You touch me like the pressure
Of the stars on the darkness

@MrMusicalsoul sad little cynic. it must hurt.

I will always find you Bruce, my darling brother

@kd37321 such an exquisite and fitting violin performance!

i'm listening

il bello di alcune canzoni di Bruce è che pur durando diversi minuti si fanno ascoltare tranquillamente senza darti l'idea dell'effettiva durata...questa non la conoscevo e la senzazione data è questa...

His voice is not as good as in his other songs, but the raggedness and a sloppiness to his voice makes the song spooky. Very good.

One of the most beautiful and haunting songs ever written

A great song from one of Cockburn's lesser-known albums. Hugh Marsh, who plays the electric violin on this song, is probably the best musician Cockburn has ever played with. This album followed Cockburn's divorce, and even though most of the songs aren't specifically about that, the overall feel of the album is revealingly dark.

such a divine loner, God grace your days man

*tear goes down face wipes face with paw-hand* i uh um ment to type hand anyway i'm a loner aswell and will never change

Bruce Cockburn- a blessed and fantastic artist in every way.

Bruce Cockburn is an Inspiration...Fantastic music and lyrically so rich. Can't get a better "combo" than that. His guitar playing is inspiring and this is an obscure song and a hidden gem. Had the album at one time.