SONG: Silver Wheels (4:37) (From the album "In the Falling Dark") high speed drift on a prairie road hot tires sing like a string being bowed sudden town rears up then explodes fragments resolve into white line code whirl on silver wheels (chorus) black earth energy receptor fields undulate under a grey cloud shield we outrun a river colour brick red mud that cleaves apart hills soil rich as blood highway squeeze in construction steam stop caution hard hat yellow insect machines silver steel towers stalk rolling land toward distant stacks that shout "Feed on demand" 100 miles later the sky has changed urban anticipation -- we get 4 lanes redorange furnace sphere notches down throws up silhouette skyline in brown sundogs flare on windshield glass sudden swoop skyward iron horse overpass pass a man walking like the man in the moon walking like his head's full of irish fiddle tunes the skin around every city looks the same miles of flat neon spelling well-known names USED TRUCKS DIRTY DONUTS YOU YOU'RE THE ONE fat wheeled cars squeal into the sun radio speakers gargle top 40 trash muzak soundtrack to slow collapse planet engines pulsate in sidereal time if you listen close you can hear the whine SONG: Loner (6:00) 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 They are radiant angels, they are earthly slaves they are predators moving in their endless days days of striving, nights of novocaine never going to bring them freedom from their pain i'm a loner with a loner's point of view i'm a loner and now i'm in love with you Wild shadows, acid verbs eyelids opening dans mon coeur tu me touche comme la pression des etoiles sur les tenebres In the elevator and the 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 eyes i'm a loner with a loner's point of view i'm a loner and now i'm in love with you SONG: Joy Will Find A Way (4:08) (From the album "Joy Will Find A Way") make me a bed of fond memories make me to lie down with a smile everything that rises afterward falls but all that dies has first to live. as longing becomes love as night turns to day everything changes joy will find a way SONG: Thoughts On A Rainy Afternoon (3:45) (From the album "Bruce Cockburn") Rain rings trash can bells and what do you know my alley becomes a cathedral eyes can be archways to enter or leave by vacuum's replaced by a crystal o Jesus don't let Toronto take my song away it's easy to love if you let yourself love it but like a moth's wing it's easily crushed o Jesus don't let tomorrow take my love away SONG: It's Going Down Slow (3:31) (From the album "Sunwheel Dance") go tell the sergeant-major to get that thing repaired they're losing their pawns in Asia there's slaughter in every square oh -- it's going down slow (2x) go get the fire department to bring that hose along and them and the schoolboy bandits can water each other's lawn oh -- it's going down slow (2x) everybody seems to be leaving better say your travelling prayers it don't matter how you get it it's where do you go from there oh -- it's going down slow (4x) God, damn the Hands of Glory that hold the bloody firebrand high; close the book and end the story of how so many men have died. let the world retain in memory that mighty tongues tell mighty lies; and if mankind must have an enemy let it be his warlike pride, let it be his warlike pride. SONG: Coldest Night Of the Year (3:58) I was up all night, socializing Trying to keep the latent depression from crystalizing Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon And you're not even here On the coldest night of the year. I took in Yonge Street at a glance Heard the punkers playing Watched the bikers dance Everybody wishing they could go to the south of France And you're not even here On the coldest night of the year. Hey look at me now See the shape I'm in It's taken me so long to catch on to what's going on Inside this skin When two lovers really love there's nothing there But this suddenly compact universe Skin and breath and hair I watched the all night TV show In the all night bar I drove all the people home I was the one with the car Now I'm sitting here alone and sleepless and wondering where you are And wishing you were here On the coldest night of the year. (repeat) SONG: Laughter (3:35) (From the album "Further Adventures Of") A laugh for the way my life has gone a laugh for the love of a friend a laugh for the fools in the eyes of the world the love that will never end Ha Ha Ha... Let's hear a laugh for the man of the world who thinks he can make things work tried to build the New Jerusalem and ended up with New York Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the sun redballing through the thermal inversion haze a laugh for the nuclear good-time boys numbering all our days Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the newsprint nightmare a world that never was where the questions are all "why" and the answers are all "because" Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the dogs barking at our heels they don't know where we've been a laugh for the dirty window pane hiding the love within Ha Ha Ha... Tapping our feet to an ancient tune a laugh for the time gone by a laugh for me and Kitty in the delivery room waiting for the child's first cry Ha Ha Ha... SONG: Red Brother Red Sister (4:11) (Originally from the album "Circles In the Stream") Went to the museum, red brother saw your ancient bloom cut, pressed and dried a sign said wasn't it clever what they used to do but it never did say how they died. (refrain) Hey hey hey, hey hey hey Went to Regina, red sister heard a cab driver say what he'd seen. "there's a grand place to eat out on Number One all WHITE ladies if you know what I mean". (refrain) Went to a pow wow, red brother. felt the people's love/joy flow around. It left me crying just thinking about it how they used my saviour's name to keep you down. (refrain) SONG: You Don't Have to Play the Horses (3:42) (From the album "Night Vision") so we wait beside the desert nothing left to give away naked as the Hanged Man's secrets nothing left to do but pray you don't have to play the horses life's a gamble all the same it don't take much to make you lose sight of the object of the game anyone can be a soldier it's a prevalent disease oh God i don't know where to step now help me find the right road please so we wait beside the desert nothing left to give away naked as the Hanged Man's secrets praying for the break of day SONG: Dweller By A Dark Stream (4:15) It could have been me put the thorns in your crown Rooted as I am in a violent ground How many times have I turned your promise down Still you pour out your love Pour out your love (Chorus:) I was a dweller by a dark stream a crying heart hooked on a dark dream In my convict soul I saw your love gleam And you showed me what you've done Jesus, thank-you joyous Son You entered a life like ours to give us back our own You wanted us like you as choosers not clones You offered up your flesh and death was overthrown Now salvation is ours, salvation is ours (Chorus) So I'm walking this prison camp world I long for a glimpse of the new world unfurled The chrysalis cracking and moisten winds uncurl Like in the vision John saw the vision John saw (Chorus) SONG: All the Diamonds in the World (2:40) (From the album "Salt, Sun and Time") all the diamonds in this world that mean anything to me are conjured up by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea i ran aground in a harbour town lost the taste for being free thank God He sent some gull-chased ship to carry me to sea two thousand years and half a world away dying trees still grow greener when you pray silver scales flash bright and fade in reeds along the shore like a pearl in sea of liquid jade His ship comes shining like a crystal swan in a sky of suns His ship comes shining.