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Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Canonical path: /cockburn-bruce/outside-a-broken-phone-booth-with-money-in-my-hand
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Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
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Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
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I've got planets in my palm - there's a red smear on the sky
a star has just exploded somewhere behind my eyes
in the dead of night the city seems to break down into tribes
you stare at too much concrete - you forget the earth's alive
Young men see visions and old men dream dreams
see them pluck bright pebbles out of circles in the stream
life's not always like they tell you in the fashion magazines
when i set eyes on wonders, i've got to wonder what they mean.
Outside in the starshine you can see beyond the wall
so take a look and tell me, can you hear those black holes call?
everything is thunder under the celestial waterfall
you get close enough to real things - you don't need your self at all
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