Tried and Tested (Bruce Cockburn)

Bruce Cockburn's "Tried and Tested" from the 2003 album, "You've never seen everything." Video by Kurt Penner.

Lyrics:

Tried and tested
Tried and tested

By the cries of birds
By the lies I've heard
By my own loose talk
By the way I walk
By the claws of beasts
By the laws of priests
By the glutton's feast
By the word police

By the planet's arc
By the falling dark
By the state of the art
By the beat of my heart
By dark finance
By the marketing dance
By the poverty trance
By the fateful glance

Tried and tested
Tried and tested

By the pressure to rhyme
By the wages of crime
By the drop of a dime
By the ghost of the times
By the spurs of desire
By "What does love require"
By what I waited for
By what showed up at the door

Tried and tested
Tried and tested

By the nation wide
By the tears I've cried
By the lure of false pride
By the need to take sides
By the weight of choice
By the still small voice
By things I forget
By what I haven't met yet

Tried and tested
Tried and tested

Pierced by beauty's blade and skinned by wind
Begged for more -- was given -- begged again

I'm still here
I'm still here

Tried and tested
Tried and tested

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bruce Cockburn
• Tried and Tested
• Canadian music
• kurt penner
• guitar
• lovers
• in
• dangerous
• time

[gothicseed]

You're gettin' better, mate! ;-)

[VA7KSP]

Thanks -- nice to hear!

[llorban]

Great video - Best one yet! I especially like the last bit with you drinking from the mug. That could be your "peace out" clip after each of your videos :) Unfortunately though I don't have an entry to compete with this one

[VA7KSP]

Thanks man, yeah - guess I have a 'signature sign-off' now. Think I have used it once or twice before. This one was in the making for about a year off and on, nice to finally finish it, and try to leave all the second-guessing behind about how it could have been better (or different)!

Hope your fishies are still doing ok too, wherever they are.

[birdlives46]

Top Notch! Thanks for posting!

[nomusician]

Bravo

[JohnEBMcC]

Great vid! Your varied images of Van truly capture the essence of this Bruce classic! Cheers ~John

[sivaddivad]

I like this video the best and the guitar and voice i thought it was talking heads

[JeffTheNebraskaDJ]

This song rocks!!!!!!!! the dj

[dechambe]

Very nice video.  The video actually complements the music ... Canadian images and scenes for a Canadian artist. Nicely done!