Cowboy Junkies – Missing Children

Cowboy Junkies – Missing Children Lyrics

Artist: Cowboy Junkies
Song: Missing Children

We only see them briefly
Perhaps just one edition
Their end-of-year photo stares out
We only see them briefly

And it’s mugging politicians
Cock-eyed, their faces stare out
But for some their image still burns bright
Like the glow of a tiger or a light

Switched-off, but once stared-at
With such intense concentration
We only see them briefly
Then it’s idle conversation

Their perfect frozen bodies surfacing
We only see them briefly
Then it’s fear and degradation
Their dusty, bloodied bodies lie limp

But for some their image still burns bright
Like the glow of a tiger or a light
Switched-off, but once stared-at
With such intense concentration

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat
What dread hands and what dread feet?

What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil, what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terror grasp?

We only see them briefly
Then it’s shame and flagellation
Their end-of-year photos stare out
When the stars threw down their spears

And watered heaven with their tears
Did he smile, his work to see
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
We only see them briefly

Then reach to change the station
Their frozen perfect faces stare out
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From the album:
All That Reckoning
Release Year: 2018