Anything Can Happen - Bruce Cockburn

    You could have gone off the Bloor St. viaduct
    i could have been run down in the street
    you could have got botulism anytime
    i could have gone overboard into the sea

    Anything can happen
    to put out the light,
    is it any wonder
    i don't want to say goodnight?

    I could have been hit by a falling pane of glass
    you could have had shark teeth write "finit"
    we could have been nailed by some vigilante type
    in a case of mistaken identity -- obviously

    Anything can happen
    to put out the light
    is it any wonder
    i don't want to say goodnight?

    We could have been lynched and tarred and feathered --
    been on a plane that crashed in flames --
    could have done the neutron melt together
    but here we are just the same!

    You could have been daggered in the dead of night
    You could have been gassed inside your car.
    I could have been walking in the open fields
    and been drilled through the head by a shooting star

    Anything can happen
    to put out the light
    is it any wonder
    i don't want to say goodnight?

    (Toronto, December 29, 1980.)
     
     

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