Lyrics
January In The Halifax Airport Lounge
1 Distant times in distant lands
Worthless money changing hands
Changing them to what? I wonder
As in the dust a jet plane thunders
Carries every feeling into blue
I miss you like I miss the flowers in bloom.
2 There's a crisis in the outer world
In the sky the smoke trails curl
Some Winnipeg boys are Cypress bound
I hope they live to touch home ground
I hope we live to touch it just once more
I need you like the river needs the shore.
3 In life so delicate and strange
Understanding seldom comes in range
We stumble through familiar scenes
Never thinking what it means
In this cluttered landscape to be loved
I need you like I need the stars above
I need you like I need the stars above.
Bruce Cockburn
1977
