Song of the Week: Bruce Cockburn's "Creation Dream"

I love this song, "Creation Dream," from the 1979 album, Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws. If it's not obvious enough from the lyrics, in a 1986 interview Bruce Cockburn described his song as "a sort of vision of Christ singing the universe into being." It reminds me of the scene in C.S. Lewis's Narnia book, The Magician's Nephew, where Aslan the Lion sings Narnia into being. Cockburn envisions the sheer delight of Christ calling forth the creation. Don't you like the imagery of mercury waves flashing under Christ's feet like "shots of silver in the shell-pink dawn"?

Centred on silence
Counting on nothing
I saw you standing on the sea
And everything was
Dark except for
Sparks the wind struck from your hair
Sparks that turned to
Wings around you
Angel voices mixed with seabird cries
Fields of motion
Surging outward
Questions that contain their own replies...

You were dancing
I saw you dancing
Throwing your arms toward the sky
Fingers opening like flares
Stars were shooting everywhere
Lines of power
Bursting outward
Along the channels of your song
Mercury waves flashed
Under your feet
Shots of silver in the shell-pink dawn . . .

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