Bruce Cockburn - The Rose Above The Sky

Beautiful song from one of his best albums ' Humans' released 1980, its an affirmation of faith in the darkness , of waiting for God in the heart of loss and uncertainty. Its a very mysterious song and could have several meanings. I am not a religious person but find this song moving and spiritually uplifting.
Here's what Bruce Cockburn has to say about the song and album -

Circa 1981 - Commenting on the background of the songs on Humans:

"It's been a heavy year personally. I was on tour in Italy and Japan and Canada, and travelling like that is always very intense. On top of that, my wife and I separated. Two of the songs, How I Spent My Fall Vacation and Tokyo, are basically impressions of my travels. Three songs - You Get Bigger as You Go, What About the Bond and Fascist Architecture - deal specifically with the separation. But I think enough people go through stuff like that, so the songs have a fairly universal application. The whole album deals with a lot of pain and death - a lot of the ugliness that I've encountered around me. But I hope it comes across that even in the face of it, there's still ground for hope. Songs like Rumours of Glory and The Rose Above the Sky are about moving from downness into something that opens up, although what that something is is not really spelled out."

[....he continues, later in the interview....]

"A lot of the songs on Humans came out of my realization that I needed other people," he says, smiling. "I've always been a loner and kept a distance between myself and even those I've regarded as friends. But all of a sudden when I was getting kicked around and battered, all these people were right there - they came through in a way I never would have expected."

-- from "Bruce Cockburn's Quiet Optimism", High Fidelity, 1981, by Stephen Holden.

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