You've Never Seen Everything
Bruce Cockburn

Nobody's making me say this

I'm talking to you

Been travelþing 17 hours

Irradiated by signals, by images

Of viruses, of virtues

Like everyone

Like exiled angels we swing out of the clouds

Above night city-

Fields of light broken by the curve of dark waterways


On the other side of the world

An unhappy teenage girl sets fire

To herself, her house, her neighbourhood and some that dwell therein

Sorry simulacrum of sad dawn


You've never seen everything


Sleep of the just, sleep of reason, any damn kind of sleep please!

I'm trying to balance on a sloping bed in Naples

Or is it Skopje? I forget

Through the thin hotel wall a man groans in his dreams


And on the other side of the world

The drug squad busts a child's birthday party

Puts bullets in the family dog and the blood goes all over the baby

And the Mounties are strip-searching schoolgirls

Because they can


And a car crashes and burns on an offramp from the Gardiner

Two dogs in the back seat die, and in the front

A man and his mother

Forensics reveals the lady has pitchfork wounds in her chest -

Pitchfork!

And that the same or a similar instrument has been screwed to the dash

To make sure the driver goes too


You've never seen everything


I see:

A leader of the people with a ring in his nose

And the leaders of business tell him which way to go

With tugs on the golden chain which once led the golden calf

And we're supposed to be impressed with their success

But my mind goes blank before the unbelievable indifference

Shown life

Spirit

The future

Anything green

Anything just



Bad pressure coming down

Tears - what we really traffic in

Ride the ribbon of shadow

Never feel the light falling all around


Years ago when my brother was in India

A small town baker got a bright idea

He cut his flour with pesticide

And sent a bunch of neighbours on their longest journey

He was just being cheap -trying to make a profit

Didn't even have shareholders to answer to


But it's worth remembering, as we sell off the forest

Gene-splice the world's food into an instrument of control

Maim and destroy as acts of theatre,

What came next -

That when the survivors looked around

And understood what had been done

They butchered

That baker


Snow swirls in the parking lot light like flour

Like pesticide There's a trade war brewing - or at least that's the face they paint on it


But it's only more transnational manipulation

It's all bad magic and gangrene politics

Hormone disruptors and carcinogenetics

Greed twists eternal in the human breast

But the market has no brain

It doesn't love it's not God

All it knows is the price of lunch


Here I sit

Staring at my own shadow

Feeling my blood move

Trying not to have a drink

Trying to find somewhere to put the rage I'm carrying


Bad pressure coming down

Tears - what we really traffic in

Ride the ribbon of shadow

Never feel the light falling all around

Never feel the light falling all around


You've never seen everything


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