04 January 2010

Wondering Where the Lions Are

I'm a big fan of Bruce Cockburn. No, that's not "cock - burn": it's "co-burn". Yup, weird name, huh? Well, he's a Christian songwriter who always has interesting takes on various topics. His style is very low-key, and is great for relaxing walks in the rain.  The album Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws was inspired after Cockburn read Augustine's City of God. I have driven my mother bonkers singing his song "Wondering Where the Lions Are" for hours at an end. It's a great song: esoteric, weird lyrics mask a great message. Mm, perfect.


Wondering Where the Lions Are
Sun's up, uh huh, looks okay
The world survives into another day
And I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind of 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 about eternity
Some kind of 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 kind of 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 kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
 

And I'm wondering where the lions are...
I'm 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 as precise like the brain behind the gun
(Should be!) they got me thinking about eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
 

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


Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay
One of these days we're going to sail away,
going to sail into eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
 

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

2 comments:

  1. Ahhh, that song is one of my favorites. I vacillate between the Cockburn version and the Jimmy Buffet version. ::blushes::

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  2. I love it when multiple artists do the same song: there's more versions to choose fromm. ;) B

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