Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
From an interview with Bruce by Martin Wroe: ‘Put it In Your Heart’ seems to be an oblique response to September 11, 2001?
Bruce Cockburn: Yes, it is, occasioned by two things. Initially seeing Jerry Falwell on TV, three days after 9/11, with Pat Robertson sitting beside him, discussing how ‘this w...
[Verse 1]
As I stare into the flame
Filled up with feelings I can't name
Images of life appear—
Regret and anger, love and fear
[Pre-Chorus]
Dark things drift across the screen
Of mind behind whose veil are seen
Love's ferocious eyes, and clear
The words come flying to my ear
[Chorus]
"Go on—put it in your heart—
Put it in your heart"
[Verse 2]
Terrible deeds done in the name
Of tunnel vision and fear of change
Surely are expressions of
A soul that's turned its back on love
[Pre-Chorus]
All the sirens all the tongues
The song of air in every lung
Heaven's perfect alchemy
Put me with you and you with me
[Chorus]
Come on—put that in your heart
Come on—put it in your heart
[Pre-Chorus]
All the sirens all the tongues
The song of air in every lung
Heaven's perfect alchemy
Put me with you and you with me
[Chorus]
Come on—put that in your heart
Come on—put it in your heart
Put it in your heart
Put it in your heart
Put It In Your Heart was written by Bruce Cockburn.
Put It In Your Heart was produced by Bruce Cockburn & Colin Linden.