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Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC (/ˈkoʊbərn/; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, environmental issues, politics, and spirituality.

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Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

Done, Everybody, Justice, Politics, See, Somebody

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

Five, Liked, Song, Songs, Writing, Years

I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be just grooving on the music. I don't mean that it has to be about anything in particular, but there has to be some art applied to it, simple or otherwise.

Art, Attuned, Mean, Particular, Set, Song

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

Dragons, Glittering, Joker, Philosophy, Range, Sight

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Composing, Loved, Time, Together, Two, Writing

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

Ego, Grow, Growing Up, Obvious, Part, Use

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

Light, People, Shining, Till

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

Day, Dazzled, Fall, Sky, Waiting

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.

Everywhere, Follow Me, Harder, Light, Shadow

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

Blessed, Depends, Littles, Looks, Planet, Way

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

Early, Found, War, World, Zones

Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I just throw it away. I wait until I've got the right way of getting a thing done, which means my songwriting proceeds at a very slow pace. But it's the only way I can really work.

Happen, Mean, Pace, Proceeds, Wait, Waiting

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

Play, Rock, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Song, Songwriting

There is no gap between art and politics.

Art, Gap, Gaps, Politics

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.

Art, Focus, Heaven, Mean, Politics, Sex

I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.

Anthem, Conversations, Dog, Friendship, Moving, Numb

Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able to separate those things before you are going to be able to do anything useful with your anger.

Anger, Ego, Separate, Ties, Together, Useful

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

Effort, Might, Powers, Worthwhile

Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can't trust the Americans.

Eye, Eyes, Military, Sunglasses

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

Absurd, Ideas, Remember, Remember When, Seemed

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