Recording by Bruce Cockburn (True North Records, 2003, $18.98 Produced by Bruce Cockburn and Colin Linden)

Bruce Cockburn's twenty-seventh album, You've Never Seen Everything, isn't likely to be his breakthrough into the pop music scene in the United States. As usual, Cockburn's cultural vision is too perceptive, too prophetic for the top-forty world of the entertainment industry.

Consider these lines from "All Our Dark Tomorrows": The village idiot takes the throne / His the wind in which all must sway / All sane people, die now / Be lifted up and carried away / You've got no home in this world of sorrows. Now consider the chorus from the next track, "Trickle Down": Trickle down...