Lyrics Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn

Don't Have To Tell You Why

Don't want to be on no rooftop

Frying in the afternoon sun

Don't want to sit by no fountain

Listening to the man-made stream run

Just want to stand where the sea-spray

Gleams like fire with you

And I don't have to tell you why

Don't want to go to no parties

Full of fair-weather friends

Don't want to be in no 'in' crowd

Chasing after every trend

Just want to stand on some hillside

In Wales with you

And fly -- don't have to tell you why

Don't want to live in no mansion

Ornate as a crown prince's church

Don't want to live on no sidewalk

Underneath no pigeon's perch

Just want to stand at the rainbow's

Real end with you

And I don't have to tell you why