The Cowboy Junkiesare a Canadian alt-country/ alternative rockband, formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family. The group formed in Toronto in 1985. The band's name was simply a random choice as they approached their first ever gig, but it has come to perfectly represent their sound. (Some sources may credit Townes Van Zandt's song "Cowboy Junkies Lament" as the source of the band's name, but that song was written especially for Cowboy Junkies several years after they coined the name.) The Trinity Sessionis perhaps their best known record, recorded live in a single day on a single microphone in a church in Toronto. This album also included a unique cover version of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane".
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Darkling Days Lyrics
Cowboy Junkies
The beautiful is not chosen.
The chosen becomes beautiful.
The beautiful is not chosen.
The chosen becomes beautiful.
Please do not forsake me now,
Sparkling gone
With darkling says
I drift at times I know its true
But I always drift on back to you.
The beautiful is not chosen.
The chosen becomes beautiful.
I have never tired of
Manna falling from above
When conscious thought
Meets careless heart
And two lost souls find one fresh start.
Lie me upon the earth
Feel its curve beneath our spines,
Soon well follow it around,
One lost soul
Finally found.
The beautiful is not chosen.
The chosen becomes beautiful.
These are known as darkling days
Rhyming schemes gone askew
Crackling gifts of light and air,
Exploding words,
Ours to share.
The beautiful is not chosen.
The chosen becomes beautiful.