Lonerv2

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Subject: c/cockburn_bruce/loner.crd

Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 16:34:40 -0700 (MST)

From: Boe R Barnett

here's a great tune from the untouchable Bruce Cockburn. it's LONER from

his his record Inner City Front. an alternate version also appears on the

compilation Mummy Dust. this transcription isn't as technical as the way

bruce plays it, but if you can sing along it sounds pretty good.

TUNING: standard

VERSE 1: down at the bus station

shark grins and sandpaper conversation

men's faces women's bodies on the magazine stand

and a headline about sarajevo and tehran

VERSE 2: they are radiant angels they are earthly slaves

they are predators moving in their endless days

days of striving nights of novacaine

never going to bring them freedom from their pain

CHORUS: i'm a lo-----ner

with a loner's point of view

i've always been a lo-----ner

now i'm in love with you

VERSE 3: wild shadows acid verbs

eyelids opening dans mon coeur

tu me touche comme la pression

des etoiles sur les tenebres

VERSE 4: in the elevator and empty hall

how'm i ever going to hear you when you call

i'm always living and i always die

on the event horizon of your eye

CHORUS again

hope this ok. works for me. brilliant song from the best songwriter AND

guitar player there is. enjoy.

posted by [email protected]

boe barnett at northern arizona university

flagstaff, az.

I watched as the best of my generation

abandoned their dreams and settled

for making a little money. -Dan Bern