January in the Halifax Airport Lounge

Longing in the Echoes: Bruce Cockburn's January Tale
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Lyrics

Distant times in distant lands

Distant memories from faraway places

Worthless money changing hands

Valueless currency being exchanged

"Changing them to what?," I wonder

Reflecting on the purpose of these changes

As in the dust the jet plane thunders

A jet plane's noise echoing in the dust

Carries every feeling into gloom

Transporting all emotions into a sense of darkness

I miss you like I miss the flowers in bloom

Expressing a yearning, missing like the absence of blooming flowers


There's a crisis in the outer world

Highlighting a crisis in the external world

In the sky the smoke trails curl

Observing smoke trails in the sky

Some Winnipeg boys are Cyprus bound

Mentioning young men from Winnipeg heading to Cyprus

I hope they live to touch home ground

Expressing a wish for their safe return to familiar ground

I hope we live to touch, if just once more

Expressing a desire for a chance to reconnect, even if only once

I need you like the river needs the shore

Conveying a deep need, comparing it to the river's need for the shore


In life so delicate and strange

Reflecting on the fragility and complexity of life

Understanding seldom comes in range

Noting the rarity of understanding in this intricate existence

We stumble through familiar scenes

Describing a journey through familiar but unexamined experiences

Never thinking what it means

Highlighting a lack of contemplation on the significance of these experiences

In this cluttered landscape to be loved

Stating the need to be loved in the midst of life's complexities

I need you like I need the stars above

Expressing a profound need, likening it to the importance of stars above

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