We have since moved on to neo-liberalism, when governments support business at the cost of lives and nobody gives a shit and I see we're moving on to neo-feudalism, that's the service economy coming at you. "That song came from the time of neo-conservatism, when governments supported business at the cost of lives and nobody gave a shit. from "Bruce Cockburn: A Burning Light and All the Rest", by William Ruhlmann, Goldmine, 3 April 1992. She said, "Did you have to use that word?" Guess that people just realized that by doing this they were aggravating the They did, and they highlighted in yellow [the potentially Or else we had to print the lyrics on the back of the record, and Label, anyway, was determined that there should be a sticker on that record Mountain], let alone which was its major distributor. Remember now even who the independent label we were dealing with was [Gold They were talking about stickering records and everything, and I can't "'cause that came out when the whole Tipper Gore thing was really peaking "You know who noticed that was the American record company," Cockburn said, Spell out here what "MF" stands for, but it can easily be imagined.] Punches, Cockburn charges that the IMF doesn't "really give a flying fuckĪbout the people in misery." That earned it a few bleeps on radio and videoĬhannels, but no one seemed to notice the chorus, "IMF, dirty MF." We won't "insupportable debt" in Third World countries. International Monetary Fund, which Cockburn accuses of fostering ["Call it Democracy" is perhaps the only song ever written about the from "Rumours of Glory 1980-1990" (songbook), edited by Arthur McGregor, OFC Publications, Ottawa, 1990. When the poor complain, out come the troops, and then the arms companies get rich too." Working to get rich without controls, at the expense of the poor. Wherever you look you find the same financial interests at work. Nicaragua, the Philippines, Chile, virtually all of Latin America really, Indonesia, emerging African countries. "Through a growing familiarity with the Nicaraguan revolution, a recognition of North-South relations began to take shape. from "Bruce Cockburn - A Voice Singing in the Wilderness" by Steve Perry, Musician magazine, March 1987, transcribed for the Web by Rick Evans. When you get very uptight metality trying to enforce itself on the rest of the population, people are driven to react." The connection may go the other way, too. "I think it's really stupid, and it's tempting to believe that there's a connection but I haven't seen any real evidence of that effect. from "Singing in a Dangerous Time" by Eunice Amarantides, TheOtherSide, January/February 1985. Part of that whole process has involved becoming more concerned about what is happening to the people around me." "In Toronto, I've made a deliberate effort to immerse myself in human society, a society I've never really felt a part of. Known comments by Bruce Cockburn about this song, by date: To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast Trying to make the best of it the way kids do Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'Īlways making certain that there's one thing left Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared International loan sharks backed by the guns Rumours of Glory - box set Disc 4 (2014) You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance (1997)Īnything Anytime Anywhere, Singles 1979-2002 (2002) Bruce Cockburn - Songs - Call It Democracy SONGS:
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