Tars
08-19-2010, 09:13 PM
"You've got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight"
from "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" (1984) By Bruce Cockburn (https://cockburnproject.net/)
"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" is a song by Bruce Cockburn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cockburn), originally released on his 1984 album Stealing Fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_Fire). The song was a Top 40 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_40) hit for Cockburn, peaking at #25 on the Canadian charts the week of August 18, 1984.
According to Cockburn, the song was inspired by seeing teenagers expressing romantic love in a schoolyard.<sup id="cite_ref-cockburnproject_1-0" class="reference">[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_in_a_Dangerous_Time#cite_note-cockburnproject-1)</sup> In the song, he contrasts the hopefulness and joy of new love with the despair of a wider Cold War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War) world where notions of the future often carried a sense of foreboding and doom. However, especially in light of Cockburn's next single "If I Had a Rocket Launcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Rocket_Launcher)", the song has also been interpreted by listeners and critics as referring to the same Guatemalan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala) refugee crisis that inspired the later song, or to the then-emerging HIV/AIDS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS) crisis. Cockburn stated in later interviews that he was pleased by both of these alternate interpretations<sup id="cite_ref-cockburnproject_1-1" class="reference">." - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_in_a_Dangerous_Time)</sup>
<object height="385" width="480">
<embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/8dGNDUdtNh8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></object>
<sup id="cite_ref-cockburnproject_1-1" class="reference"></sup>
from "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" (1984) By Bruce Cockburn (https://cockburnproject.net/)
"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" is a song by Bruce Cockburn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cockburn), originally released on his 1984 album Stealing Fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_Fire). The song was a Top 40 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_40) hit for Cockburn, peaking at #25 on the Canadian charts the week of August 18, 1984.
According to Cockburn, the song was inspired by seeing teenagers expressing romantic love in a schoolyard.<sup id="cite_ref-cockburnproject_1-0" class="reference">[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_in_a_Dangerous_Time#cite_note-cockburnproject-1)</sup> In the song, he contrasts the hopefulness and joy of new love with the despair of a wider Cold War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War) world where notions of the future often carried a sense of foreboding and doom. However, especially in light of Cockburn's next single "If I Had a Rocket Launcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Rocket_Launcher)", the song has also been interpreted by listeners and critics as referring to the same Guatemalan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala) refugee crisis that inspired the later song, or to the then-emerging HIV/AIDS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS) crisis. Cockburn stated in later interviews that he was pleased by both of these alternate interpretations<sup id="cite_ref-cockburnproject_1-1" class="reference">." - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_in_a_Dangerous_Time)</sup>
<object height="385" width="480">
<embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/8dGNDUdtNh8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></object>
<sup id="cite_ref-cockburnproject_1-1" class="reference"></sup>