Etiket: Leonard Cohen

They sentenced me to 20 years of boredomFor trying to change the system from withinI’m coming now, I’m coming to reward themFirst we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I’m guided by a signal in the heavens (Guided, guided)I’m guided by this birthmark on my skin (I am guided by)I’m guided by the beauty of…

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the riverYou can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside herAnd you know that she’s half-crazy but that’s why you want to be thereAnd she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from ChinaAnd just when you mean to tell…

You got me singingEven though the news is badYou got me singingThe only song I ever had You got me singingEver since the river diedYou got me thinkingOf all the places we could hide You got me singing(Singing) even though the world is goneYou got me thinking(Thinking about our live together) that I’d like to…

Now, I’ve heard there was a secret chordThat David played, and it pleased the LordBut you don’t really care for music, do you?It goes like this, the fourth, the fifthThe minor fall, the major liftThe baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah,HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah Your faith was strong but you needed proofYou saw her bathing on the roofHer…

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty womenThere’s a shoulder where death comes to cryThere’s a lobby with nine hundred windowsThere’s a tree where the doves go to dieThere’s a piece that was torn from the morningAnd it hangs in the Gallery of FrostAy, ay, ay, ayTake this waltz, take this waltzTake this waltz with the…

I loved your face, I loved your hairYour T-shirts and your evening-wearAs for the world, the job, the warI ditched them all to love you more And now you’re gone, now you’re goneAs if there ever was a youWho broke the heart and made it new?Who’s moving on, who’s kiddin’ who? I loved your moods,…

I’ve seen you change the water into wineI’ve seen you change it back to water, tooI sit at your table every nightI try but I just don’t get by with youI wish there was a treaty we could signI do not care who takes this bloody hillI’m angry and I’m tired all the timeI wish…

If you are the dealerI’m out of the gameIf you are the healer it meansI’m broken and lameIf thine is the glory thenMine must be the shameYou want it darkerWe kill the flame Magnified, sanctifiedBe the holy nameFeel the fire, crucifiedIn the human frameA million candles burningFor the help that never cameYou want it darker…