Song · Bruce Cockburn
“Lovers In A Dangerous Time” by Bruce Cockburn
From the album Stealing Fire (1984)
“Lovers In A Dangerous Time” by Bruce Cockburn appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2020 and 2026. It was first released in 1984 on the album Stealing Fire. Its best result is #404 on The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,699 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" comes from Stealing Fire, the 1984 album Bruce Cockburn made for True North, with Kerry Crawford and Jonathan Goldsmith producing. He wrote it after watching teenagers caught up in romance in a schoolyard, and he sets that small, hopeful scene against a Cold War sky heavy with dread, the joy of new love standing its ground in a world braced for the worst.
It became a top 40 hit in Canada, peaking at 25, and listeners have found more in it since: with "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" following as his next single, some tied it to the Guatemalan refugee crisis, others to the then-new AIDS crisis, and Cockburn has said he was glad of both readings. In 2005 it placed 11th on 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version, CBC Radio One's countdown of the country's greatest songs.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1859 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2023 | 404 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s | 850 |
| 2026 | 969 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
Also listed as: Lovers In a Dangerous Time.
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