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Текст песни:

Because of a few songs
Wherein I spoke of their mystery,
Women have been
Exceptionally kind
to my old age.
They make a secret place
In their busy lives
And they take me there.
They become naked
In their different ways
and they say,
"Look at me, Leonard
Look at me one last time."
Then they bend over the bed
And cover me up
Like a baby that is shivering.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Dont really know who sent me

To raise my voice and say:

May the lights in the land of plenty

Shine on the truth some day.

I dont know why I come here,

Knowing as I do,

What you really think of me,

What I really think of you.

For the millions in a prison,

That wealth has set apart c

For the christ who has not risen,

From the caverns of the heart c

For the innermost decision,

That we cannot but obey -

For whats left of our religion,

I lift my voice and pray:

May the lights in the land of plenty

Shine on the truth some day.

I know I said Id meet you,

Id meet you at the store,

But I cant buy it, baby.

I cant buy it anymore.

And I dont really know who sent me,

To raise my voice and say:

May the lights in the land of plenty

Shine on the truth some day.

I dont know why I come here,

Knowing as I do,

What you really think of me,

What I really think of you.

For the innermost decision

That we cannot but obey

For whats left of our religion

I lift my voice and pray:

May the lights in the land of plenty

Shine on the truth some day.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

By the rivers dark

I wandered on.

I lived my life

In babylon.

And I did forget

My holy song:

And I had no strength

In babylon.

By the rivers dark

Where I could not see

Who was waiting there

Who was hunting me.

And he cut my lip

And he cut my heart.

So I could not drink

From the river dark.

And he covered me,

And I saw within,

My lawless heart

And my wedding ring,

I did not know

And I could not see

Who was waiting there,

Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark

I panicked on.

I belonged at last

To babylon.

Then he struck my heart

With a deadly force,

And he said, this heart:

It is not yours.

And he gave the wind

My wedding ring;

And he circled us

With everything.

By the rivers dark,

In a wounded dawn,

I live my life

In babylon.

Though I take my song

From a withered limb,

Both song and tree,

They sing for him.

Be the truth unsaid

And the blessing gone,

If I forget

My babylon.

I did not know

And I could not see

Who was waiting there,

Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark,

Where it all goes on;

By the rivers dark

In babylon.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Ive never seen your eyes so wide

Ive never seen your appetite quite this occupied

Elsewhere is your feast of love

I know ... where long ago we agreed to keep it light

So lets be married one more night

Its light, light enough

To let it go

Its light enough to let it go

Remember when the scenery started fading

I held you til you learned to walk on air

So dont look down the ground is gone,

Theres no one waiting anyway

The smoky life is practiced

Everywhere

So set your restless heart at ease

Take a lesson from these autumn leaves

They waste no time waiting for the snow

Dont argue now youll be late

There is nothing to investigate

Its light enough, light enough

To let it go

Light enough to let it go

Remember when the scenery started fading

I held you til you learned to walk on air

So dont look down the ground is gone,

Theres no one waiting anyway

The smoky life is practiced everywhere

Come on back if the moment lends

You can look up all my very closest friends

Light, light enough

To let it go

Its light enough to let it go

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

I came so far for beauty left

So much behind

My patience and my family

My masterpiece unsigned

I thought Id be rewarded

For such a lonely choice

And surely she would answer

To such a very hopeless voice

I practiced all my sainthood

I gave to one and all

But the rumours of my virtue

They moved her not at all

I changed my style to silver

I changed my clothed to black

And where I would surrender

Now I would attack I stormed the old casino

For the money and the flesh and I myself decided

What was rotten and what was fresh

And men to do my bidding

And broken bones to teach

The value of my pardon

The shadow of my reach

But no, I could not touch her

With such a heavy hand

Her star beyond my order

Her nakedness unmanned

I came so far for beauty

I left so much behind

My patience and my family

My masterpiece unsigned

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Its true that all the men you knew were dealers

Who said they were through with dealing

Every time you gave them shelter

I know that kind of man

Its hard to hold the hand of anyone

Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind

You find he did not leave you very much

Not even laughter

Like any dealer he was watching for the card

That is so high and wild

Hell never need to deal another

He was just some joseph looking for a manger

He was just some joseph looking for a manger.

And then leaning on your window sill

Hell say one day you caused his will

To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter

And then taking from his wallet

An old schedule of trains, hell say

I told you when I came I was a stranger

I told you when I came I was a stranger.

But now another stranger seems to want you to ignore his dreams

As though they were the burden of some other

O youve seen that man before

His golden arm dispatching cards

But now its rusted from the elbow to the finger

And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter

Yes he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter.

You hate to watch another tired man

Lay down his hand

Like he was giving up the holy game of poker

And while he talks his dreams to sleep

You notice theres a highway

That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder

Its curling up like smoke above his shoulder.

You tell him to come in sit down

But something makes you turn around

The door is open you cant close you shelter

You try the handle of the road

It opens do not be afraid

Its you my love, you who are the stranger

It is you my love, you who are the stranger.

Well, Ive been waiting, I was sure

Wed meet between the trains were waiting for

I think its time to board another

Please understand, I never had a secret chart

To get me to the heart of this

Or any other matter

Well he talks like this

You dont know what hes after

When he speaks like this,

You dont know what hes after.

Lets meet tomorrow if you chose

Upon the shore, beneath the bridge

That they are building on some endless river

Then he leaves the platform

For the sleeping car thats warm

You realize, hes only advertising one more shelter

And it comes to you, he never was a stranger

And you say ok the bridge or someplace later.

And then sweeping up the jokers

That he left behind

You find he did not leave you very much

Not even laughter

Like any dealer he was watching for the card

That is so high and wild

Hell never need to deal another

He was just some joseph looking for a manger

He was just some joseph looking for a manger.

And leaning on your window sill

Hell say one day you caused his will

To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter

And then taking from his wallet

An old schedule of trains

Hell say I told you when I came I was a stranger

I told you when I came I was a stranger.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

So were drinking and were dancing

And the band is really happening

And the johnny walker wisdom running high

And my very sweet companion

Shes the angel of compassion

And shes rubbing half the world against her thigh

Every drinker every dancer

Lifts a happy face to thank her

And the fiddler fiddles something so sublime

All the women tear their blouses off

The men they dance on the polka-dots

And its partner found and partner lost

And its hell to pay when the fiddler stops

Its closing time

Were lonely, were romantic

And the ciders laced with acid

And the holy spirits crying, wheres the beef?

And the moon is swimming naked

And the summer night is fragrant

With a mighty expectation of relief

So we struggle and we stagger

Down the snakes and up the ladder

To the tower where the blessed hours chime

And I swear it happened just like this

A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss

The gates of love they budged an inch

I cant say much has happened since

But closing time

I loved you for your beauty

But that doesnt make a fool of me

You were in it for your beauty too

I loved you for your body

Theres a voice that sounds like God to me

Declaring that your bodys really you

I loved you when our love was blessed

And I love you now theres nothing left

But sorrow and a sense of overtime

And I miss you since the place got wrecked

By the winds of change and the weeds of sex

Looks like freedom but it feels like death

It something in betwen, I guess

Its closing time

Were drinking and were dancing

But theres nothing really happening

The place is dead as heaven on a saturday night

And my very close companion

Gets me fumbling gets me laughing

Shes a hundred but shes wearing

Something tight

I lift my glass to the awful truth

Which you cant reveal to the ears of youth

Except to say it isnt worth a dime

And the whole dam place goes crazy twice

And its once for the dvil and its once for christ

But the boss dont like these dizzy heights

Were busted in the blinding lights

Of closing time

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past.

We swore to each other then that our love would surely last.

You kept right on loving, I went on a fast,

Now I am too thin and your love is too vast.

But I know from your eyes

And I know from your smile

That tonight will be fine,

Will be fine, will be fine, will be fine

For a while.

I choose the rooms that I live in with care,

The windows are small and the walls almost bare,

Theres only one bed and theres only one prayer;

I listen all night for your step on the stair.

But I know from your eyes

And I know from your smile

That tonight will be fine,

Will be fine, will be fine, will be fine

For a while.

Oh sometimes I see her undressing for me,

Shes the soft naked lady love meant her to be

And shes moving her body so brave and so free.

If Ive got to remember thats a fine memory.

And I know from her eyes

And I know from her smile

That tonight will be fine,

Will be fine, will be fine, will be fine

For a while.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
you were talking so brave and so sweet,
giving me head on the unmade bed,
while the limousines wait in the street.
Those were the reasons and that was New York,
we were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love for the workers in song
probably still is for those of them left.

Ah but you got away, didn′t you babe,
you just turned your back on the crowd,
you got away, I never once heard you say,
I need you, I don′t need you,
I need you, I don′t need you
and all of that jiving around.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend.
You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music."

And then you got away, didn′t you babe...

I don′t mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
I can′t keep track of each fallen robin.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
that′s all, I don′t even think of you that often.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey

I ache in the places where I used to play

And Im crazy for love but Im not coming on

Im just paying my rent every day

Oh in the tower of song

I said to hank williams: how lonely does it get?

Hank williams hasnt answered yet

But I hear him coughing all night long

A hundred floors above me

In the tower of song

I was born like this, I had no choice

I was born with the gift of a golden voice

And twenty-seven angels from the great beyond

They tied me to this table right here

In the tower of song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll

Im very sorry, baby, doesnt look like me at all

Im standing by the window where the light is strong

Ah they dont let a woman kill you

Not in the tower of song

Now you can say that Ive grown bitter but of this you may be sure

The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor

And theres a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong

You see, you hear these funny voices

In the tower of song

I see you standing on the other side

I dont know how the river got so wide

I loved you baby, way back when

And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed

But I feel so close to everything that we lost

Well never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I dont know when Ill be back

There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track

But youll be hearing from me baby, long after Im gone

Ill be speaking to you sweetly

From a window in the tower of song

Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey

I ache in the places where I used to play

And Im crazy for love but Im not coming on

Im just paying my rent every day

Oh in the tower of song

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

I asked my father
I said father change my name
The one I′m using now is covered up with fear and filth
And cowardice and shame.

Yes and
Loverloverloverloverloverloverlover
Come back to me
yes and
Loverloverloverloverloverloverlover
Come back to me.

He said I locked you in this body
I meant it as a kind of trial
You can use it for a weapon or to make some woman smile.

Yes and
Loverloverloverloverloverloverlover
. . .

Then let me start again I cried
please let me start again
I want a face that′s fair this time
I want a spirit that is calm.

Yes and
Loverloverloverloverloverloverlover
. . .

I never turned aside he said and never walked away
It was you who built the temple
it was you who covered up my face

Yes and
Loverloverloverloverloverloverlover
. . .

And may the spirit of this song
may it rise up pure and free
May it be a shield for you
a shield against the enemy.

Yes and
Loverloverloverloverloverloverlover
. . .

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

As the mist leaves no scar

On the dark green hill

So my body leaves no scar

On you and never will

Through windows in the dark

The children come, the children go

Like arrows with no target

Like shackles made of snow

Chorus

True love leaves no traces

If you and I are one

Its lost in our embraces

Like stars agains the sun

As a falling leaf may rest

A moment on the air

So your head upon my breast

So my hand upon your hair

And many nights endure

Without a moon or star

So will we endure

When one is gone and far

Chorus

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

I believe that you heard your master sing

When I was sick in bed

I suppose that he told you everything

That I keep locked away in my head

Your master took you traveling

Well, at least thats what you said

And now do you come back to bring

Your prisoner wine and bread

You met him at some temple

Where they take your clothes at the door

He was just a numberless man in a chair

Who had just come back from the war

And you wrap up his tired face in your hair

And he hands you the apple core

Then he touches your lips, now so suddenly bare

Of all the kisses we put on sometime before

And he gave you a german shepherd to walk

With a collar of leather and nails

And he never once made you explain or talk

About all of the little details

Such as who had a worm and who had a rock

And who had you through the mails

Now you love is a secret all over the block

And it never stops not even

When your master fails

And he took you up in his aeroplane

Which he flew without any hands

And you cruised above the ribbons of rain

That drove the crowds from the stands

Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane

And an ape with angel glands

Erased the final wisps of pain

With the music of rubber bands

And now I hear you master sing

You kneel for him to come

His body is a golden string

That your body is hanging from

His body is a golden string

My body has grown numb

O now you hear you master sing

Your shirt is all undone

And will you kneel beside this bed

That we polished so long ago

Before you master chose instead

To make my bed of snow

Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red

And you are speaking far too low

No, I cant make out what your master said

Before he made you go

And I think youre playing far too rough

For a lady whos been to the moon

Ive lain by this window long enough

You get used to an empty room

And your love is some dust

In an old mans cuff

Who is tapping his foot to a rune

And your highs are a ruin

You want too much

Lets say you came back sometime too soon

I loved your master perfectly

And I taught him all that he knew

He was starving in some deep mystery

Like a man who is sure what is true

And I sent you to him with my guarantee

I could teach him something new

And I taught him how you would long for me

No matter what he said, no matter what you do

I believe that you heard you master sing

While I was sick in bed

Im sure that he told you everything

I must keep locked away in my head

Your master took you traveling

Well, at least thats what you said

And now do you come back to bring

Your prisoner wine and bread.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Ill be loving you always

With a love thats true, always

When the things youve planned

Need a helping hand

I will understand, always, always

Days may not be fair, always

Thats when Ill be there, always

Not for just an hour

Not for just a day

Not for just a year, but always

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Ive been listening

To all the dissention.

Ive been listening

To all the pain.

And I feel that no matter

What I do for you,

Its going to come back again.

But I think that I can heal it,

But I think that I can heal it,

Im a fool, but I think I can heal it

With this song.

@ Leonard Cohen