Bruce Cockburn - Beautiful Creatures Lyrics
There's a knot in my gut
As I gaze out today
On the planes of the city
All polychrome grey
When the skin is peeled of it
The beautiful creatures are going away
Like a dam on a river
My conscience is pressed
By the weight of hard feelings
Piled up in my breast
The callous and vicious things
Humans display
The beautiful creatures are going away
Why? Why?
From the stones of the fortress
To the shapes in the air
To the ache in the spirit
We label despair
We create what destroys
Bind ourselves to betray
The beautiful creatures are going away
Other Lyrics by Artist
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- Bruce Cockburn - Scanning These Crowds
- Bruce Cockburn - Burden Of The Angel/Beast
- Bruce Cockburn - Bone In My Ear
- Bruce Cockburn - All The Ways I Want You
- Bruce Cockburn - Listen For The Laugh
- Bruce Cockburn - Mary Had A Baby
- Bruce Cockburn - It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
- Bruce Cockburn - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Bruce Cockburn - Iesus Ahatonnia (The Huron Carol)
- Bruce Cockburn - Silent Night
- Bruce Cockburn - Shepherds
- Bruce Cockburn - Go Tell It On The Mountain
- Bruce Cockburn - Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes
- Bruce Cockburn - Southland Of The Heart
- Bruce Cockburn - Someone I Used To Love
- Bruce Cockburn - Strange Waters
- Bruce Cockburn - The Charity Of Night
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- Bleeding Through - Wake Of Orion
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Bruce Cockburn Beautiful Creatures Comments
Beautiful, haunting collaboration!
Thanks for this video to accompany this great song! Has Bruce seen it? I'm sure he'd love it!
Bruce is my Number One favorite musician/artist on the planet. I even sent through a rodie, a small painting when he played at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. I doubt he ever got it though... I'm just wanted him to know how special he is.
This guy picks many thoughtful and difficult subjects. So moving a song. Simply done, lyric wise, but makes the point.
such pain in hollow chest - howling, wailing, grief... thank you for your amazing art with this beautiful poetry by Bruce Cockburn - in the darkness of our time. He sings it perfectly - like we feel it. Like They feel it - the beautiful creatures going away.
Reading this gave me chills. So true, so felt, and cutting to the bone.
Love the beautiful art, beautiful song, too! Powerful song!
Gorgeous, heartfelt presentation. Thank you.
your paintings are almost as beautiful as the actual creatures..thank you so much.
BEAUTIFUL, Peter...
Your artwork is awe-inspiring.
Everybody should see this video...
bloody hell, Peter...and Bruce...makes me cry every time I watch this. I know it is so true. And Peter, your sensitive and beautiful paintings evoke the true grief of the situation...oh, my poor animals...
I think everyone should buy some Peter Gullerud art :) that way you can look at it while you listen to your Bruce Cockburn albums :) I did, and it is as lovely to the eyes as Cockburn is to the ears.....Peter, you are an awesome artist :) thanks for making these videos. Lisette
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Thank you, very beautiful and engagingly edited.