Hopeful Amphibian also added this song to his Lent Song reflections in 2005. He writes:
Another treasured Greenbelt memory – experiencing Bruce Cockburn’s first performance at the festival, a solo acoustic session in The Big Top (in 1984, I think). Brilliant guitar playing, thoughtful and thought-provoking songs, passionate about justice (he’d just released the angry and articulate If I had a Rocket Launcher, which nearly made it into this series), but also in love with mystery – this was the kind of music I had never heard before at Greenbelt.
The next year, working as a volunteer in a therapeutic community in Essex, I met a friend who owned most of his albums – and Cockburn’s music became part of my life for good. It’s difficult to name a favourite album – probably Salt, Sun and Time (1974) – and almost impossible to choose a favourite song. But, for certain, something by him had to make it as a Lentsong.
Read his full post here: Link
Lord of the Starfields
by Bruce Cockburn
Album: In the Falling Dark
Lord of the starfields
Ancient of Days
Universe Maker
Here’s a song in your praise
Wings of the storm cloud
Beginning and end
You make my heart leap
Like a banner in the wind
O love that fires the sun
Keep me burning.
Lord of the starfields
Sower of life,
Heaven and earth are
Full of your light
Voice of the nova
Smile of the dew
All of our yearning
Only comes home to you
O love that fires the sun
keep me burning