tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528618286780037328.post5036869789528106065..comments2024-03-08T15:48:33.897-05:00Comments on when love comes to town: Lovers in a dangerous time...RJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15204894769061828015noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528618286780037328.post-19864907522127457562009-09-10T10:33:40.156-04:002009-09-10T10:33:40.156-04:00what a beautiful song! and i love the translation ...what a beautiful song! and i love the translation of the Mark verse, is that the Message or your own?<br /><br />i echo your prayer of being grace-filled. i'm learning that in CPE not just of those who i like (LGBTQ, liberals and moderates) but also of my more conservative brothers and sisters. it's been quite a wonderful experience thus far!Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03734930079710820207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528618286780037328.post-7667797272676732832009-09-08T22:02:50.534-04:002009-09-08T22:02:50.534-04:00Thank you for these deep words, Black Pete, so ten...Thank you for these deep words, Black Pete, so tender and real. I've known this tune for a long time but never really made it my own - finally found a key to sing it, too. <br /><br />One of the things I have come to love about Cockburn is his poetry and passion. He is a fine guitar player, too, and when the poetry and passion comes together with his music... it is sacred to me.<br /><br />Dianne and I sang through this a little tonigh - she helping me find the right key for my funky baritone range - and I've been playing with it off and on all night.RJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13545420303456278246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528618286780037328.post-75474710919024825812009-09-08T21:13:17.201-04:002009-09-08T21:13:17.201-04:00A rush of memories, RJ: that album (and that song ...A rush of memories, RJ: that album (and that song in it) was among the first Joyce and I bought together, that summer of our wedding. <br /><br />Several weeks before our wedding, I suffered a work-related injury--a hernia-- and was scheduled for surgery three weeks before we were to be married. Bruce Cockburn (with Jane Siberry!) played an open-air concert the week before I was to undergo the procedure. I was uncomfortable sitting or standing any length of time, so I lay on the concrete bench of the amphitheatre, with my head in her lap. We took in the concert, which included Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Nicaraugua, If I Had a Rocket Launcher, and so much more, that way. I cannot hear that song without remembering that summer.<br /><br />But to be true to your posting and its intent, I will say that three years later, with Joyce in seminary, we traveled to Cuernavaca, Mexico on a study tour, where we met some of the people referred to by Bruce in "Rocket Launcher"--the victims, that is. And so many others. <br /><br />It seemed to us that just being alive was dangerous. Especially there...<br /><br />Thank you.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16052081819882002321noreply@blogger.com