Bruce Cockburn - If A Tree Falls

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  • Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2011
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    Music video by Bruce Cockburn performing If A Tree Falls.
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  • @mikemahin
    @mikemahin 2 месяца назад +6

    He made Canada proud. He is a human treasure.

  • @theholidaylady1
    @theholidaylady1 Год назад +29

    Bruce Cockburn has one of Canada's most beautiful singing voices!
    I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Bruce many years ago in Dawson City at the music festival. He asked me if I was one of the people who prepared the wonderful food and I told him I was not. I was another performer at the festival.
    He said that the food was great and I agreed. He was so nice that he wanted to compliment someone on taking such good care of us! 🥰

  • @markallan5484
    @markallan5484 Год назад +100

    A powerful message coupled with an irresistible beat. Bruce Cockburn, whom I've had the pleasure of interviewing twice, is one of Canada's national treasures. We're happy to share him with the rest of the world.

    • @jamescheddar4896
      @jamescheddar4896 Год назад +5

      he should get that last name checked out though, i think they have creams for that now

    • @markallan5484
      @markallan5484 Год назад +8

      @@jamescheddar4896 Haha. He has one of the most-mispronounced surnames in history.

    • @allisonhayes9529
      @allisonhayes9529 Год назад +4

      ​@@jamescheddar4896 😂

    • @kevinlarson9111
      @kevinlarson9111 6 месяцев назад

      Bruce Springsteen and I will meet in Heaven one day. I just want to salute him. ❤

    • @godfreymccammon4531
      @godfreymccammon4531 2 месяца назад +3

      I have about 77% of his beautiful music in my listening library. I play bass and it was my mission to learn the entire first album "note for note"....Mr. Cockburn is my musical Psychotherapist, I listen to him all the time!

  • @joelreid6114
    @joelreid6114 2 года назад +25

    Maybe the best Canadian music video of all time.

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 2 года назад

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛🎷🎷🎷✨💯💯......

    • @kevinlarson9111
      @kevinlarson9111 6 месяцев назад +1

      💯

    • @angusbull9685
      @angusbull9685 4 месяца назад +1

      Brian Adams is pretty cool though!

    • @elizabethmcleod246
      @elizabethmcleod246 4 месяца назад +1

      It’s a fave of mine and I’m Canadian.

  • @johnnycrash3270
    @johnnycrash3270 Год назад +8

    Canada loves YA Bruce ❤🙏 for the 🌎 it's all we got

  • @jodystockfish7573
    @jodystockfish7573 4 года назад +12

    There should be no thumbs down option for this song.

  • @channelinfinity7084
    @channelinfinity7084 Год назад +8

    Bruce, I hope you read this: this song touched my heart as a kid, and all these years later, I work trying to help/protect wildlife. It brings a tear to my eye to this day. Thank you.

  • @jansilverthorn777
    @jansilverthorn777 2 года назад +7

    August ‘21: I would imagine Bruce takes little satisfaction in saying “I told you so.”

  • @helenaeriksson506
    @helenaeriksson506 4 года назад +5

    Truer than ever. Could have been written today. Made me cry.

  • @traces2807
    @traces2807 11 месяцев назад +6

    The talent and depth of this humanitarian...

  • @withershin
    @withershin Год назад +9

    "Anybody hear the forest fall?" is a golden lyric. Majestic perhaps.

  • @Josh7510
    @Josh7510 3 года назад +6

    At the time this guy was spot on......since then the world has sold itself....for what!

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 года назад

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯

  • @Darkasknightfall
    @Darkasknightfall Год назад +18

    This man stands for many things. What a great artist 🌍🌎🌏

  • @philippemetois6491
    @philippemetois6491 4 года назад +181

    On July 25th 1991, I lost my girlfriend . she died in a plane crash in a forest of kaoris in the mountains of Santo in Vanuatu . Cassandra Clunies Ross was 25 years old. She was a VSO volunteer
    working in forestry.WE found her camera ,processed the film and her last shot was of a kaori tree.I also had a cd by bruce Cockburn with this song on it. Probably listened to this song a 1000 times and every time I cried not only because I was devastated but also because this is a superb song.

    • @stevedeacon1647
      @stevedeacon1647 4 года назад +8

      Philippe Metois why haven’t a thousand people people given a thumbs up to this? I think think this song is an achingly beautiful

    • @bobobrien8968
      @bobobrien8968 4 года назад +9

      My deepest feelings to ,my brother in pain and life. We can still save the world. For our lost loved ones.

    • @Bimfirestarter
      @Bimfirestarter 4 года назад +7

      😟😢😢😢💔💔💔 I'm at this age myself where many old hallmarks of my early life are passing away, my Dad only 20 days ago. He was the one who's musical tastes had a huge impact on me, including Bruce Cockburn, particularly his "Stealing Fire" album, which I was delighted to buy on cd when I got my first job back in 2000 (20 flippin years ago...seems like a blink).
      I appreciate your remarks. Sorry to hear it, too.

    • @Kieran84ire
      @Kieran84ire 4 года назад +6

      Very sorry to hear of your loss Philppe, I hope you are doing well and living a life she would be proud of

    • @philippemetois6491
      @philippemetois6491 4 года назад +5

      thank you. I am still living in Vanuatu, still doing photography. I have a wife, a son aged 16 and a daughter aged 14. Today april 3rd 2020, still no corona virus in Vanuatu. Not many kaories left in Vanuatu. Keep in touch

  • @rexgaub1229
    @rexgaub1229 3 года назад +8

    Would've never known about this guy if it weren't for college radio in Amarillo, TX.

    • @ShrinkiesWife
      @ShrinkiesWife 4 месяца назад +2

      Here in Canada, we have a radio programming policy called CanCon. Required # of 🇨🇦 somg airplay. The government requires it to protect our culture and artists. Including Bruce Cockburn. Thank goodness.

    • @jansilverthorn777
      @jansilverthorn777 3 месяца назад +1

      One of our most gifted songwriters. He was decades ahead of the rest of us.

  • @johncooper7663
    @johncooper7663 2 года назад +5

    Grew up on the US Canada border. Picked up this song and a lot of others when they drifted over the border in the 80s. Thank you Lemmington , Ontario for playing them

  • @kathyanderson1341
    @kathyanderson1341 5 месяцев назад +3

    YES, I , heard them fall AND the cry was deafening!!!!

  • @davidyoung8875
    @davidyoung8875 Год назад +32

    Everyone should listen to the whole album. It's just Amazing!!

  • @SocalHashman
    @SocalHashman Год назад +4

    The trailer park boys introduced me to your music 👍👍🎸🎶🎶

  • @Meandgenevieve
    @Meandgenevieve 6 лет назад +89

    Bruce Cockburn is THE BEST political songwriter.

    • @Rex69Rutherford
      @Rex69Rutherford 4 года назад +8

      Sounds like hyperbole at first, but if you think about it, you are right

    • @bobthebear1246
      @bobthebear1246 3 года назад

      @Peter A. I disagree. We especially need more political songwriters (of the progressive kind, of course).

    • @googlechicken
      @googlechicken 2 месяца назад

      Really! Better than Dylan? Joni Mitchell? Joe Strummer? I don’t know about that.

  • @skeena59
    @skeena59 5 лет назад +126

    As the Amazon today burns, Bruce foretold us 30 years ago of the coming demise. Nobody listened then , nobody listens now. See the forest fall, ...and with it, ourselves.

    • @brandybaybutt1228
      @brandybaybutt1228 4 года назад +9

      I listened last night when I saw him live. Everyone there seemed to connected to his message. I hope humanity can move forward with more intelligence. Art is a powerful way to share and he does this so beautifully.

    • @kevinguyan522
      @kevinguyan522 4 года назад +6

      it would be great if there was a way to revive this video through an international environmental protest action whereby people planting trees is mixed with the imagery of the original video...short clips of people doing the same thing...

    • @davidpate3859
      @davidpate3859 4 года назад +3

      The wrong Amazon is on fire, pity the fool who doesn't remedy same!

    • @bobthebear1246
      @bobthebear1246 3 года назад

      Very well-stated.

    • @johnguadagni9320
      @johnguadagni9320 3 года назад

      They mAy listen to our reply or we .must sing a new song. Bruce?

  • @kevinlarson9111
    @kevinlarson9111 6 месяцев назад +4

    Absolutely incredibly true song ❤

  • @butchssurvivorranch360
    @butchssurvivorranch360 Месяц назад +1

    THE WORLD DIDN'T 🌎 LISTEN TO BRUCE... WHAT A SHAME 😢HE WAS SO RIGHT ON EVERY POINT
    👉 ❤ 👈

  • @brucestapley9703
    @brucestapley9703 Месяц назад +1

    Bruce Cockburn who gave an exceptionally brilliant, authentic message of hope and inspiration to the Laurier University Teachers College and Music Grads yesterday (June 14, 2024) as he was given an Honourary Doctorate of Music! Degree

  • @KOSMICKEN09
    @KOSMICKEN09 12 лет назад +240

    this guy is so criminally underrated in america.

    • @2uconner
      @2uconner 4 года назад +4

      really

    • @Nwmguy
      @Nwmguy 4 года назад +25

      In Canada too actually

    • @brookef3011
      @brookef3011 3 года назад +13

      And around the world my friend

    • @gracehaymes
      @gracehaymes 3 года назад +19

      But those of us who rate him highly put him WAY WAY WAY up high on our list.

    • @brookef3011
      @brookef3011 3 года назад +10

      He exposed many crimes against humanity... a true hero. In today's world- a criminal. What have we let our world become? And can we ever get it back? I fear not

  • @MrRedwing90
    @MrRedwing90 3 года назад +22

    Another masterpiece from Bruce. What a stellar song!

  • @westerstill2119
    @westerstill2119 2 месяца назад +2

    Bruce is a living legend. Inspiration for me becoming a vegetarian

    • @seanmackenzie8726
      @seanmackenzie8726 Месяц назад

      He Bruce should inspire yourself to be a Beautiful Human Being and Respecting Humanity as well as Nature.!!!

  • @seanmackenzie8726
    @seanmackenzie8726 2 месяца назад +2

    I watched with my Mother and her Sister my Aunt Aggie Live at the Forum along with Martha & the Muffins in the early '80,s sitting on the Lawn very few people there at that Time yet what a musical pleasure to behold.!!!

  • @kathyanderson1341
    @kathyanderson1341 5 месяцев назад +2

    Beautiful MOTHER EARTH forgive us😭😭😭

  • @solodolotrevino
    @solodolotrevino 4 года назад +25

    I’m an American so I’m late to the party. I discovered this song last year along with the world of Bruce Cockburn. This is my favorite environmental anthem. It encapsulates everything one feels for this world of wonders.

  • @TheMedicineMan_29
    @TheMedicineMan_29 2 года назад +4

    I heard Bruce Cockburn for the first time when I was 14 at a party.. Making Contact.. had an amazing night.. been an avid BC fan especially his protest songs.. I’m 28 and will be a fan for life, always sharing with all my American friends!!

  • @ronaldconlin9701
    @ronaldconlin9701 Год назад +3

    Many moons ago at the Catalyst, Santa Cruz..he was there and I saw him😁

  • @rommulus
    @rommulus 3 года назад +4

    can we have a minute of silence for this dying earth that we are all responsible for

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 года назад +1

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯💯

    • @nathanhill2044
      @nathanhill2044 5 месяцев назад

      Are you still alive?

  • @TheJamesOutlaw
    @TheJamesOutlaw 8 месяцев назад +3

    I saw this on much music in the 80s and loved it then. Love it now

  • @philbishop7936
    @philbishop7936 2 года назад +3

    He's making a lot of sense now isn't he, our planet is finished with us, very soon!!

  • @Johnny-ty1dg
    @Johnny-ty1dg 2 года назад +4

    I LOVE Bruce Cockburn. But I also love hamburgers. I feel so torn.

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 2 года назад +1

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛🎷🎷🎷✨💯💯......

  • @kcgilford518
    @kcgilford518 2 года назад +3

    30 years later and the Cortez rhythm of falling timber continues. We weren’t listening. Now the Amazon is teetering on the brink of disappearing forever.

  • @loggerbomb
    @loggerbomb 3 года назад +6

    Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit, world where wild things have to go, to disappear, forever. People like to say his line about kicking at the darkness till it bleeds light is powerful, but that, that line is a soul crusher.

    • @jamesc4812
      @jamesc4812 3 года назад +1

      Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 года назад

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯

  • @tdirgins
    @tdirgins 3 года назад +3

    “Forever” gets me every time. 😢

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 года назад

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯

  • @peterp4319
    @peterp4319 5 месяцев назад +1

    I so wish this was re-mastered in HD

  • @stephenross6944
    @stephenross6944 Год назад +2

    Jerry springer look alike but what a beat ,and then he sings absolutely brilliant lovvvvvvvvve it

  • @freelancer8822
    @freelancer8822 3 года назад +3

    A consumate musician with a humanitarian conscience. Something that this myopic money hungry world abandoned half a century ago. Unsurprisingly, all that follows is the end!

  • @dwaynesbadchemicals
    @dwaynesbadchemicals Год назад +5

    As a Canadian singer songwriter, he’s up there with Joni, Leonard and Neil.

  • @fastorange6463
    @fastorange6463 2 года назад +7

    I first heard this song when I was 7. I'm 40 now and all I've seen my whole life is the rate of destruction accelerate. The part in the song about Brazilian deforestation mainly driven for methane farting cows is something most people still don't understand.

  • @johnkauppi7078
    @johnkauppi7078 6 месяцев назад +1

    I worked in the big palm oil plantations many years ago. But I remember the frightened ,sad look on the face of the Orangs that we dispatched to the spirit world.

  • @gregs6312
    @gregs6312 Год назад +1

    We all need to wake up here before were not🤔

  • @MrJaseg1971
    @MrJaseg1971 6 лет назад +126

    This song was released in 1988, Bruce was way ahead of his time. We are the epitome of our own demise.

    • @anitataylor4287
      @anitataylor4287 5 лет назад +6

      Yep.

    • @shilohaapala284
      @shilohaapala284 5 лет назад +5

      Agreed! A fantastic song by a great Human Being! And a Canadian!

    •  5 лет назад +2

      No he wasn't ahead . They gave him a narrative and he provided the soundtrack. You've never heard of Greenpeace? It was connected to Canada since the mid 70s and they evolved into organizations that did million dollar charity fund raisers that went into their side coat pockets and they did NOTHING for solutions. It's like Antifa.

    • @davedruid7427
      @davedruid7427 4 года назад +3

      Our David Suzuki was saying such things in his Nature of Things Show in the late 70s - early 80s.

    • @lindadote
      @lindadote 4 года назад +4

      Dave Druid ......yes indeed, a man Bruce admired greatly. You may know that in 2001, Bruce was inducted into the “Canadian Music Hall of Fame” by David Suzuki and Gordon Lightfoot.

  • @kevinlarson1522
    @kevinlarson1522 8 лет назад +142

    Can't believe only 68000 people have listened to this...can't be right. This is one of the most powerful Save The Earth Anthems I know of

    • @rathert3
      @rathert3 8 лет назад +6

      Totally agree with you Kevin Larson.

    • @kevinlarson1522
      @kevinlarson1522 8 лет назад +6

      Cheers

    • @Vacuumscam
      @Vacuumscam 8 лет назад +18

      Don't forget, there is a generation of older people that don't give two shits about youtube music videos. They knew about this song long before YT. :D

    • @weatheranddarkness
      @weatheranddarkness 7 лет назад +1

      it's not the only instance that's been on youtube

    • @julianjames1971
      @julianjames1971 6 лет назад +7

      Too many Trump supporters.....

  • @anitataylor4287
    @anitataylor4287 5 лет назад +7

    This song needs way more views!!

  • @sh230968
    @sh230968 Год назад +2

    Most well meaning lyrics and earnest musician. True gentle soul.

  • @paulchittenden6112
    @paulchittenden6112 5 лет назад +9

    1988 but where have we gone from here with this songs message? We are still destroying the planet 🌍

  • @susannahsears3041
    @susannahsears3041 3 года назад +1

    Can't believe ONLY 23 people have WHO'S HERE in 2020? We should have a MOMENT OF SILENCE for seriously UNDERRATED. My neighbours must LOVE this song cuz I always turn it up when they knock. COVID!!! :/

  • @mattaird4660
    @mattaird4660 3 года назад +1

    I love this song ,,i hope people listen

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 года назад

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯💯

  • @joemark1289
    @joemark1289 3 года назад

    Man we Canadians sure produce top quality tool bags.

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 года назад

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯

  • @rubencura1112
    @rubencura1112 3 года назад +2

    this genius artist Mr. Bruce Cockbourn with this song and video makes the world see the thrue politics and government around the world make this artist disappear just because is telling as the thrue. Mr. Cockburn GOD bless you and than you

  • @MickLoud999
    @MickLoud999 2 года назад +1

    Saw Bruce at a church on Bloor near Spadina in like 1981-82. He had was accompanied by Guatemalan refugees. I then realized it was a part of a fund raising campaign for the refugees. We emptied our pockets. He performed many songs and I think it was the first time he performed "If I had a rocket Launcher" live. Good times!

  • @JANITOROFHISTORY
    @JANITOROFHISTORY 11 лет назад +13

    “ IN THE WOODS IS PERPETUAL YOUTH. WITHIN THESE PLANTATIONS OF GOD A DECORUM AND SANCTITY REIGN. IN THE WOODS WE RETURN TO REASON AND FAITH. ” - EMERSON

    • @lizr473
      @lizr473 3 года назад

      which is exactly why man-unkind is slowly going insane.

  • @paulchittenden6112
    @paulchittenden6112 5 лет назад +15

    When I heard this song in 1988, I knew that our planet was in serious trouble. Now 30 years later, have we really made any progress. Simply NO! The relentless burning off fossil fuels and the greed of the world’s greedy commercial system is destroying this planet - it’s all about money, profits - at the expense of animals, humans and the climate.

  • @andrewwatitsch3327
    @andrewwatitsch3327 Год назад +1

    Great song!

  • @icelandicat68
    @icelandicat68 Год назад +1

    I have seen the best of the best in my time. That probably doesn't come close to what was. This man is not only the best songwriter I've ever heard..hes the the best guitar player I've ever seen. Truly, and what a gentleman. I floated back to my camper trailer at the Winnipeg folk festival 2006....sober and had the best sleep i ever had.. I am 54 years past, and my son is 3. He loves Bruce as much as me. EXTRAORDINARY.

  • @davidpate3859
    @davidpate3859 7 лет назад +16

    Grrr, wish I'd written this SMFH, thanks Bruce Cockburn for being a global conscience for the masses!

  • @bronsonpoutine7357
    @bronsonpoutine7357 3 года назад +1

    Brilliant man who was way ahead of the curve.

  • @elanyacoleman9862
    @elanyacoleman9862 4 месяца назад

    Love Bruce Cockburn ❤ and most honored to have met him on several occasions 🎼🎵🎶 .

  • @4score7
    @4score7 2 года назад +1

    Can not wait to see you tonight in Flagstaff, Bruce. Right On! Power To The People!!

  • @RobertLindblad
    @RobertLindblad Год назад +3

    This is a video everyone on Earth should see! Greatness in every aspect of music and video production to truly get a message across ... and to boot being a vegetarian (at least I was from the age of 17 and 3/4) leads to a healthier existence and makes it easier on the planet, the environment and everyone. I'm sharing this baby on Facebook everyday! You should too!

  • @EdwardGatey
    @EdwardGatey Год назад +1

    Love the loon. Got to watch loons teaching babies to dive. It was a lot of fun for me. I bet for them, too. I know joy when I see it!

  • @richarddrolet7746
    @richarddrolet7746 3 года назад +2

    This Artist is an icon along with Joni Mitchell.....Canada Heritage at its best......rick.

  • @Socooomfy
    @Socooomfy 4 года назад +11

    Holy shit this is magic. How can anything modern ever hold a candle to this? This man knows how to whammy bar.

  • @EdwardGatey
    @EdwardGatey 9 месяцев назад +1

    Fing beautiful! Thanks, Bruce!!!!

  • @5tar5z
    @5tar5z 4 года назад +3

    Solid tune. Canadian Legend

  • @mbaronson7836
    @mbaronson7836 6 лет назад +21

    Love this song. Bruce is so in touch with our world.

    • @EdwardGatey
      @EdwardGatey Год назад

      Yes. If I had a rocket launcher, some SOB WOULD die. I would retaliate, not hesitate!

  • @taylor-ruth.
    @taylor-ruth. Год назад +9

    One of the best guitar hooks, so tight and catchy, up there with the best of Nick Lowe or Elvis Costello. He is so underrated as a musician.

  • @aliciasabourin1268
    @aliciasabourin1268 7 лет назад +101

    I remember this song when I was about 4 years old. I cried everytime I heard it... still do

    • @arouse6140
      @arouse6140 5 лет назад +3

      Awe, stay positive Mother Earth will make sense of it and she can heal herself or maybe something worse like put a curse upon us. She still loves us so far stay positive 👍😎🌎😎👍

    • @arrow-lo7jf
      @arrow-lo7jf 4 года назад

      The human race committing suicide, " problem solved " but no one will help...

    • @priscillahudson3625
      @priscillahudson3625 4 года назад +1

      NORMALIZATION OF IGNORANCE sometimes it takes raising awareness of the situation to get more involved and through the collective joining of attention, intention, and forces, coming together to create a solution. He can’t do it all himself! Join in and be proactive yourself instead of grumbling. That’s like complaining when someone has given you the menu at at restaurant. It’s your choice. Your responsibility. Don’t expect one person to do everything and then you get to sit back and say whether it’s worthy or not. It’s your life. Get involved. What’s your plan?

    • @arrow-lo7jf
      @arrow-lo7jf 4 года назад

      Sorry, but I am in no way grumbling , I am %100 serious . The human race is a not worthy of this planet. What more do you need to see in this world before you come to the same conclusion.You really think there is a solution to this madness, we lost this planet year's ago when the corporations bought it, a death sentence for us all, they do not care for you or me or this planet, nothing will change unless people are willing to die to change it, are you ready to die for your cause ? revolution is the only way, and to be honest, people are to consumed with their own greed and standard of living to give a shit. and you seem smart enough to know that, where you going to go tomorrow, WORK or a SAVE THE WORLD RALLY, I rest my case...peace.

    • @priscillahudson3625
      @priscillahudson3625 4 года назад +3

      arrow64 64 it is what I am doing and what I do every day; bitching and complaining only makes for a more miserable existence and pushes people away from doing anything about it because they want to get away from misery, so instead of encouraging people to be proactive, the negativity only encourages more people to check out-or that’s what I’ve observed in the last 20 years of my personal activism. Personal responsibility and something to work for other than “we’re doomed” because then it’s just “eat,drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die”.

  • @Wizardofgosz
    @Wizardofgosz 7 лет назад +38

    Never heard this track before til today. It's almost Lou Reed meets Zappa or something. This is strong.

    • @bobthebear1246
      @bobthebear1246 3 года назад +1

      First time for me now, too. I would say Lou Reed set to Country-Rock. It is very strong.

    • @eliotpenaloza2863
      @eliotpenaloza2863 3 года назад +2

      First time here too.

    • @sergeparadis1
      @sergeparadis1 Год назад

      This guy is great and too smart for the common folk. Any artist who lyrically forces you to think, question things and go against the grain never gets his shine or gets to smell the roses. Sad really

  • @danielr8566
    @danielr8566 4 месяца назад

    This makes me cry..everytime.

  • @peterchiasson7530
    @peterchiasson7530 2 года назад +3

    Still love this great track!

  • @davidpate3859
    @davidpate3859 3 года назад +1

    'This is the world that we have set on fire.' - Wendell Berry

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 года назад +1

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯💯

  • @turdferguson400
    @turdferguson400 3 года назад +2

    Still listening in September 2020! 💖💖👍

  • @bobgoertzen6605
    @bobgoertzen6605 Год назад +1

    Love them .excited to see them in August.😊

  • @davidburne9477
    @davidburne9477 8 месяцев назад +1

    This song is an indictment of big business, with a message 38 years old now, and yet there are still deniers. I spent hours with my Telecaster trying to get that chiming tone. Lotsa Boss effect later…. A great song underpinned with a great riff.

  • @publicdomain1103
    @publicdomain1103 6 лет назад +4

    We hippies have to relive our youth and the revolution continues. The sound track was laid down in the 1900s and the heavy lifting will continue til we get it right. Til then, the band plays on. ShakeUp

  • @jamie1carlisle
    @jamie1carlisle 6 лет назад +6

    Sublime made in Canada! Thanks for making sense Bruce.

  • @madbuddha2077
    @madbuddha2077 5 лет назад +8

    why does some of the best music on youtube have the least hits

  • @interqward1
    @interqward1 8 лет назад +16

    What a simply beautiful song; and good poetry.

  • @EdwardGatey
    @EdwardGatey Год назад +1

    Love local Lightfoot!
    Love Global Bruce.

  • @lonewolf5896
    @lonewolf5896 2 года назад +1

    A voice for the trees......listen......

  • @bctreehunter7396
    @bctreehunter7396 4 года назад +5

    Nice to listen to this yet again. Reminds me of just how talented Bruce Cockburn is, and how sincere his message was and is

  • @wernersteiner4325
    @wernersteiner4325 4 года назад +4

    I listened to this song once at work 21 years ago and I've been looking for it until today. Although I knew some songs from Bruce I didn't think it was from him. I found it today. It's a wonderful song. For 21 years I sang the chorus in front of me again and again and never forgot........(:

    • @jamesc4812
      @jamesc4812 3 года назад

      Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏

  • @JBinOtown
    @JBinOtown 6 лет назад +25

    Asphalt - so much of it - creates urban heat islands that raise the temp by more than most ppl realize. Forests, vegetation, etc actually reduces temperatures

    • @anitataylor4287
      @anitataylor4287 3 года назад +1

      And now sinkholes happening!!!

    • @lizr473
      @lizr473 3 года назад

      welcome to southwest Florida...
      outrageous down here.
      and nobody gives a shit.

  • @666chinchilla
    @666chinchilla 3 года назад +1

    chilling.2021 i hear it scream.mother save us.father give her grace.

  • @briandennis4695
    @briandennis4695 6 лет назад +6

    You hit the nail on the head with that one Bruce. If only people would listen. Definitely your best work.

    •  5 лет назад

      And what solution did he offer?

    • @loranelizabeth9148
      @loranelizabeth9148 2 года назад +1

      Oh, I dunno, Brian. IMHO ALL of his music is too great for words!

  • @melaniecossey1508
    @melaniecossey1508 5 лет назад +10

    I remember when this song came out over thirty years ago. Thirty years! Why was nothing done? Now are we facing the end?

    • @jamesc4812
      @jamesc4812 3 года назад +1

      Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏

    • @xeonic84
      @xeonic84 3 года назад

      @@jamesc4812 What now Bruce? We trashed our home.

    • @spudfrommars
      @spudfrommars 3 года назад

      I'm sorry to have to tell you but it will never change! Governments and corporations will do what they want as they always have - and that's just the way it is.

    • @jacobfinder7476
      @jacobfinder7476 6 месяцев назад

      Yes

  • @kerriesciberras5229
    @kerriesciberras5229 7 лет назад +11

    Best song i have ever had the pleasure to hear

  • @nicolenicky8980
    @nicolenicky8980 3 месяца назад

    childhood song hihi🥰i love it and im now 40

  • @jill-sandwichsince9698
    @jill-sandwichsince9698 Год назад +14

    First time I’ve heard of Bruce Cockburn.
    This is a beautiful track. Very impressed with the music and lyrics are something else.
    Roll a cheeky smoke and chill back listening to great music
    ☮️❤️

    • @heidihilgendorf748
      @heidihilgendorf748 Год назад +2

      He’s a very talented musician and gifted songwriter. I had the privilege to see him a few years ago, but I’ve been listening to him since I was a tot (my dad and godfather were big fans). Lovers in a Dangerous time and If I had a rocket launcher are some of my other favorites. But, this song is my earth day anthem!

  • @shilohaapala284
    @shilohaapala284 5 лет назад +1

    Where wild things have to go and disappear forever!

  • @bobbysmith3385
    @bobbysmith3385 3 года назад +9

    I don't know much about this bloke, but this song is about nature and a political statement.
    Midnight oil from Australia are also sing the same agenda
    Great music

    • @bobthebear1246
      @bobthebear1246 3 года назад +1

      I love Midnight Oil!!

    • @bobbysmith3385
      @bobbysmith3385 3 года назад +1

      I live in Oz and midnight oil is highly reguared 😁

    • @markmillward9733
      @markmillward9733 5 месяцев назад

      He's one of our Canadian treasures. From Ottawa moved to my home city Toronto where he did most of his work. This "protest song" was almost uncool in the greed soaked 1980s. It was way ahead of the times. The world needs to hear it now and weep and ask for forgiveness.

  • @pauloriglasso2788
    @pauloriglasso2788 11 месяцев назад +2

    A great song and the video clip brings a tear to my eye. Did anybody hear you, Bruce?

  • @danielfarje8857
    @danielfarje8857 3 года назад +6

    What a good song, specially for the message in it. Just discovered it by chance and I love it.

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 года назад

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my RUclips channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯💯

  • @ramrod2314
    @ramrod2314 5 лет назад +21

    Even today in 2019 we still don't get the message...we are still in denial

    • @lizr473
      @lizr473 3 года назад

      GREED
      GREED
      GREED
      and MORE GREED