All's Quiet On The Inner City Front letra

blue billboard on the roof next door
makes a square of light on the kitchen floor
smokes rises from a cigarette
there's a dull glisten where the table's wet
soft breath rises from the bed
a thousand question marks over my head

turn on the tube but there's nothing new
the usual panic in red, white and blue
"military advisors" marching in the square
knife-sharp trouser creases slicing air
private armies on suburban lawns
shoulders braced against the tidal dawn
all's quiet on the inner city front
i don't know why i should but i feel content

bell in the fire station tower
rings out the measure of the racing hours
i slip through the door to the roof outside
to gaze at the sign hanging in the sky
that sailor on the billboard looks so self-possessed
doesn't have a thing to forgive or forget
all's quiet on the inner city front.

Bruce Cockburn - Letras

• A Dream Like Mine
• A Life Story
• A Long Time Love Song
• A Montreal Song
• After The Rain
• All The Diamonds In The World
• All The Ways I Want You
• All's Quiet On The Inner City Front
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
• And We Dance
• Anything Can Happen
• Arrows Of Ligh
• Arrows Of Light
• Badlands Flashback
• Berlin Tonight
• Birmingham Shadows
• Bone In My Ear
• Bright Sky
• Broken Wheel
• Burn
• Call It a Democracy
• Can I Go With You
• Candy Man's Gone
• Change Your Mind
• Child Of The Wind
• Christmas Song
• Civilization And Its Discontents
• Clocks Don't Bring Tomorrow - Knives Don't Bring
• Closer To The Light
• Coldest Night Of The Year
• Creation Dream
• Cry Of A Tiny Babe
• Dancing In Paradise
• Deja Vu
• Dialogue With The Devil - Or Why Don't We Celebrate?
• Different When It Comes To You
• Don't Feel Your Touch
• Down In Yon Forest
• Dust and Diesel
• Dweller By A Dark Stream
• Going To The Country
• He Came From The Mountain
• Hills Of Morning
• Hoop Dancer
• How I Spent My Fall Vacation
• I Wanna Dance With You
• If a Tree Falls
• If I Had a Rocket Launcher
• In The Falling Dark
• Incandescent Blue
• It Come Upon The Midnight
• Joy Will Find a Way
• Justice
• Last Night Of The World
• Laughter
• Let Us Go Laughing
• Life's Mistress
• Listen For The Laugh
• Little Seahorse
• Live On My Mind
• Loner
• Look How Far
• Lord of the Starfields
• Love Song
• Lovers In A Dangerous Time
• Making Contact
• Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long
• Mary Had a Baby
• Maybe The Poet
• Messenger Wind
• Montreal Song
• Musical Friends
• My Beat
• Never So Free
• Nicaragua
• Night Train
• No Footprints
• Northern Lights
• Of The Angel Beast
• On The Coldest Night Of The Year
• One Day I Walk
• Open
• Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
• Pacing The Cage
• Postcards From Cambodia
• Put It In Your Heart
• Put Our Hearts Together
• Rainfall
• Red Brother Red Sister
• Rumours Of Glory
• See How I Miss You
• See You Tomorrow
• Shepherds
• Silver Wheels
• Slow Down Fast
• Someone I Used To Love
• Soul Of a Man
• Spring Song
• Stained Glass
• Starwheel
• Stolen Land
• Strange Waters
• The Charity Of Night
• The Coming Rains
• The Mines Of Mozambique
• The Strong One
• The Thirteenth Mountain
• The Trouble With Normal
• The Whole Night Sky
• Tibetan Side Of Town
• To Raise The Morning Star
• Together Alone
• Tokyo
• Trickle Down
• Tried And Tested
• Tropic Moon
• Wait No More
• Waiting For a Miracle
• Waiting For The Moon
• Wanna Go Walking
• When The Sun Goes Nova
• Wondering Where The Lions Are
• World Of Wonders
• Yanqui Go Home
• You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance
• You've Never Seen Everything