How I Spent My Fall Vacation Lyrics - Slice O Life: Bruce Cockburn Live Solo - Bruce Cockburn

Sun went down looking like the eye of God 

Behind icy mist and stark bare trees 

Inside the dim empty cinema two guys in leather jackets 

Glance at each other and shiver 

"They never built these places with winter in mind" 

Out the window down the gray road 

You can see old walled monastery 

Now become a barracks for the paramilitary police 

I saw an old lady's face once on a Japanese train 

Half lit, rich with soft luminosity 

She was dozing straight upright head bobbing almost imperceptibly 

Wheels were playing fast in 9/8 time 

Her husband's friendly face suddenly folded up in a sneeze 

Across the straight a volcano flew a white smoke flag of surrender 

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In a Roman street on a full moon night 

I was sick and there was a young cop in a circle of yellow light 

As we drew near he snapped the safety off his machine pistol 

And slid a trembling finger to the trigger 

I wanted to say something calming but couldn't catch his eye 

He didn't want contact -- he was trained to see movement 

"Well don't shoot me, man, I'm a graceful slow dancer 

I'm just a dream to you not real at all" 

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I wonder if I'll end up like Bernie in his dream 

A displaced person in some foreign border town 

Waiting for a train part hope part myth 

While the station changes hands 

Or just sitting at home growing tenser with the times 

Or like that guy in "The Seventh Seal" 

Watching the newly dead dance across the hills 

Or wearing this leather jacket shivering with a friend 

While the eye of God blazes at us like the sun...