If I had a rocket launcher, I'd make somebody pay.
It's a classic, originalline assigned automatically to Bruce Cockburn, one of Canada's great protest singers and politically motivated songwriters. He held office at Vanier Hall on Thursday night, and it was this aggressive side of Cockburn that came out most starkly.
The man can be many things. I've seen him four times over the years, and no two shows are in any way the same - to a fault sometimes. He thinks nothing of dropping many of his most popular songs from the set list in favour of new ones, ones that fit his surroundings, ones that follow his mood at the time. I have, in years gone by,left a Cockburn concert feeling disappointed by his song choices.
This was a faraway concernby the end of Thursday.
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