Leonard Cohen – ”You Want It Darker”

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oct. 222024
 

”You Want It Darker” Melodie de: Leonard Cohen If you are the dealer, I’m out of the game If you are the healer, it means im broken and lame If thine is the glory, then mine must be the shame You want it darker We kill the flame Magnified, sanctified Be the holy name Vilified, crucified In the human frame A million candles burning For the help that never came You want it darker Hineni, hineni I’m ready, my Lord There’s a lover in the story But the story’s still the same There’s a lullaby for suffering And a paradox to blame But it’s written in the scriptures And it’s not some idol claim You want it darker We kill the flame They’re lining up to prisoners And the guards are taking aim I struggle with some demons They were middle class and tame I didn’t know I had permission […]

Leonard Cohen – ”Happens to the heart”

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iul. 082023
 

I was always workin’ steady but I never called it art I got my shit together meeting Christ and reading Marx It failed my little fire but it spread a dying spark Go tell the young Messiah what happens to the heart There’s a mist of summer kisses where I tried to double park The rivalry was viscious, the women were in charge It was nothing, it was business, but it left an ugly mark I’ve come here to revisit what happens to the heart I was selling holy trinkets, I was dressing kind of sharp I let pussy in the kitchen and a panther in the yard In the prison of the gifted I was friendly with the guards So I never had to witness what happens to the heart I shoulda seen it coming, after all I knew the chart Just to look at her was trouble, it […]

Leonard Cohen – ”A thousand kisses deep”

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iun. 162023
 

The ponies run, the girls are young The odds are there to beat You win a while, and then it’s done Your little winning streak And summoned now to deal With your invincible defeat You live your life as if it’s real A thousand kisses deep I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed I’m back on boogie street You lose your grip, and then you slip Into the masterpiece And maybe I had miles to drive And promises to keep You ditch it all to stay alive A thousand kisses deep And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A thousand kisses deep Confined to sex, we pressed against The limits of the sea I saw there were no oceans left For scavengers like me I made it to the forward deck I blessed our remnant fleet And then consented […]

Leonard Cohen – ”In my secret life”

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iun. 032020
 

In my secret life In my secret life In my secret life In my secret life I saw you this morning You were moving so fast Can’t seem to loosen my grip On the past And I miss you so much There’s no one in sight And we’re still making love In my secret life I smile when I’m angry I cheat and I lie I do what I have to do To get by But I know what is wrong And I know what is right And I’d die for the truth In my secret life In my secret life Hold on, hold on, my brother My sister, hold on tight I finally got my orders I’ll be marching through the morning Marching through the night Moving cross the borders Of my secret life Looked through the paper Makes you want to cry Nobody cares if the people Live […]

Leonard Cohen – ”Boogie Street”

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iun. 032020
 

O crown of light, o Darkened One I never thought we’d meet You kiss my lips and then it’s done And I’m back on Boogie Street (Sharon Robinson wrote this tune) A sip of wine, a cigarette And then it’s time to go I tidied up the kitchenette I tuned the old banjo I’m wanted at the traffic-jam They’re saving me a seat I’m what I am, and what I am Is back on Boogie Street And o my love, I still recall The pleasures that we knew The rivers and the waterfall Wherein I bathed with you Bewildered by your beauty there I’d kneel to dry your feet By such instructions you prepare A man for Boogie Street O crown of light, o Darkened One I never thought we’d meet You kiss my lips and then it’s done And I’m back, back on Boogie Street So come, my friends, […]

Leonard Cohen – ”Dance me to the end of love”

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iun. 032020
 

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic ‘til I’m gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love Oh, let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long We’re both of us beneath our love, we’re both of us above Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the children who are asking to be born Dance me through the […]