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Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Canonical path: /cockburn-bruce/after-the-rain
Related lyric paths: 6
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After The Rain
Read After The Rain lyrics by Bruce Cockburn on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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After The Rain
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After rain in the streets light flows like blood --
I can just taste salt on the humid wind.
Here comes that gasoline
spreading hungry rainbow over shiny black tar.
I'm blown like smoke and blind as wind
except for when your love breaks in.
Maybe to those who love is given sight
to pierce the wall of seeming night
and know it pure beyond all imagining.
Engine throb street cruise light bullet car flash
hollow beauty night gleam oily river tension glass...
Ultraflame! glittering dust falling in slow
motion -- clouds tumbling one over another into apparent emptiness.
It's like a big fist breaking down my door --
I never felt such a love before!
Maybe to those who love it's given to hear
music too high for the human ear
and clear as hydrogen to go singing.
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Bruce Cockburn performs "After The Rain", and this lyric page sits inside the Bruce Cockburn catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to All The Ways I Want You and Don't Feel Your Touch with a short reason for opening each page next.
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