Bruce Put It In Your Heart

From The Bruce Cockburn Project
http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/piiyh.html

"This particular song was triggered not so much by the event itself, which was horrible but not that surprising if youd spent time in the rest of the world, but by the aftermath of it. By the pronouncements of, I can never get them straight whether it was Pat Robertson or Jerry Farwall but it hardly matters, sitting there on TV, and I watched this bugger say this, that the destruction of the WTC was really the fault of gays, lesbians, and the people who had abortions. My immediate response was fuck you you pieces of shit get off the TV. Then I got civilized you know, man that made me mad though, anyway, it struck me that that kind of thinking and my thinking in response to that thinking was really, there was almost no difference between that and what Osama bin Laden apparent thinks which is that everybody other than him is really sub-human and doesnt deserve life. Its all to easy for us to feel like that. This song is kind of a reflection on that and is addressed to whichever one of those boringly suited evangelists it was. It came out of a meditation. Its called "Put it in your Heart". I guess its kind of addressed to me as well." -- transcribed from the 29 June 2002, Kate Wolf Festival concert. Submitted by Doug Stacey.


As I stare into the flames
filled up with feelings I can't name
Images of life appear --
regret and anger, love and fear
Dark things drift across the screen
of mine behind whose veil are seen
love's ferocious eyes, and clear
the words come flying to my ear Go on -- put it in your heart -- Put it in your heart

Terrible deeds done in the name
of tunnel vision and fear of change
surely are expressions of
a soul that's turned its back on love
All the sirens all the tongues
The song of air in every lung
Heaven's perfect alchemy
put me with you and you with me Come on -- put that in your heart Come on, put it in your heart

All the sirens all the tongues
The song of air in every lung
Heaven's perfect alchemy
Put me with you and you with me Come on, put it in your heart Come on, put it in your heart

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• put it in your heart
• september 11
• 9/11

[drdisks]

Still hard to think about that day. I used to work on the 104th floor of Tower One. It takes the smallest nudge to make me grieve again.

[missmabel]

@drdisks i can't even imagine. :-(

[LittleDragon2000]

Thank you for sharing this. I've added to my favourites and will be sharing this.

When I read the background to this song on thebrucecockburnproject(dot)ne­t I understood exactly how Bruce felt and wanted to do something Thank God he's a better musician than I am - and a better Christian than Pat Roberstson or Jerry Falwell.

[buddhafollower]

like it too bad to see only 1044 people watching good music....

[regulis]

Beautiful song. Always thoughtful with his lyrics.

[raiderkbc]

Saw him do this acoustically on 4/3 in Tucson..amazing..this guy is just soo good..