Текст песни:

When they poured across the border

I was cautioned to surrender,

This I could not do;

I took my gun and vanished.

I have changed my name so often,

Ive lost my wife and children

But I have many friends,

And some of them are with me.

An old woman gave us shelter,

Kept us hidden in the garret,

Then the soldiers came;

She died without a whisper.

There were three of us this morning

Im the only one this evening

But I must go on;

The frontiers are my prison.

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,

Through the graves the wind is blowing,

Freedom soon will come;

Then well come from the shadows.

Les allemands etaient chez moi,

Ils me dirent, "signe toi,"

Mais je nai pas peur;

Jai repris mon arme.

Jai change cent fois de nom,

Jai perdu femme et enfants

Mais jai tant damis;

Jai la france entie′re.

Un vieil homme dans un grenier

Pour la nuit nous a cache,

Les allemands lont pris;

Il est mort sans surprise.

[the germans were at my home

They said, "sign yourself,"

But I am not afraid

I have retaken my weapon.

I have changed names a hundred times

I have lost wife and children

But I have so many friends

I have all of france

An old man, in an attic

Hid us for the night

The germans captured him

He died without surprise.]

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,

Through the graves the wind is blowing,

Freedom soon will come;

Then well come from the shadows.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess.

Is it true you betrayed us? the answer is yes.

Then read me the list of the crimes that are mine,

I will ask for the mercy that you love to decline.

And all the ladies go moist, and the judge has no choice,

A singer must die for the lie in his voice.

And I thank you, I thank you for doing your duty,

You keepers of truth, you guardians of beauty.

Your vision is right, my vision is wrong,

Im sorry for smudging the air with my song.

Oh, the night it is thick, my defences are hid

In the clothes of a woman I would like to forgive,

In the rings of her silk, in the hinge of her thighs,

Where I have to go begging in beautys disguise.

Oh goodnight, goodnight, my night after night,

My night after night, after night, after night, after night, after night.

I am so afraid that I listen to you,

Your sun glassed protectors they do that to you.

Its their ways to detain, their ways to disgrace,

Their knee in your balls and their fist in your face.

Yes and long live the state by whoever its made,

Sir, I didnt see nothing, I was just getting home late.

@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

Don′t matter if the road is long
Don′t matter if it′s steep
Don′t matter if the moon is gone
And the darkness is complete
Don′t matter if we lose our way
It′s written that we′ll meet
At least, that′s what I heard you say
A thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see, I′m just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second hand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep

I know you had to lie to me
I know you had to cheat
You learned it on your father′s knee
And at your mother′s feet
But did you have to fight your way
Across the burning street
When all our vital interests lay
A thousand kisses deep

I′m turning tricks
I′m getting fixed
I′m back on boogie street
I′d like to quit the business
But I′m in it, so to speak
The thought of you is peaceful
And the file on you complete
Except what I forgot to do
A thousand kisses deep

Don′t matter if you′re rich and strong
Don′t matter if you′re weak
Don′t matter if you write a song
The nightingales repeat
Don′t matter if it′s nine to five
Or timeless and unique
You ditch your life to stay alive
A thousand kisses deep

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 summon now to deal with your invincible defeat
You live your life as if it′s real
A thousand kisses deep

I hear their voices in the wine
That sometimes did me seek
The band is playing Auld Lang Syne
But the heart will not retreat
There′s no forsaking what you love
No existential leap
As witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep


@ Leonard Cohen

Текст песни:

I loved you for a long, long time
I know this love is real
It don′t matter how it all went wrong
That don′t change the way I feel
And I can′t believe that time′s
Gonna heal this wound I′m speaking of
There ain′t no cure,
There ain′t no cure,
There ain′t no cure for love
I′m aching for you baby
I can′t pretend I′m not
I need to see you naked
In your body and your thought
I′ve got you like a habit
And I′ll never get enough
There ain′t no cure,
There ain′t no cure,
There ain′t no cure for love

There ain′t no cure for love
There ain′t no cure for love
All the rocket ships are climbing through the sky
The holy books are open wide
The doctors working day and night
But they′ll never ever find that cure for love
There ain′t no drink no drug
(Ah tell them, angels)
There′s nothing pure enough to be a cure for love

I see you in the subway and I see you on the bus
I see you lying down with me, I see you waking up
I see your hand, I see your hair
Your bracelets and your brush
And I call to you, I call to you
But I don′t call soft enough
There ain′t no cure,
There ain′t no cure,
There ain′t no cure for love

I walked into this empty church I had no place else to go
When the sweetest voice I ever heard, whispered to my soul
I don′t need to be forgiven for loving you so much
It′s written in the scriptures
It′s written there in blood
I even heard the angels declare it from above
There ain′t no cure,
There ain′t no cure,
There ain′t no cure for love

There ain′t no cure for love
There ain′t no cure for love
All the rocket ships are climbing through the sky
The holy books are open wide
The doctors working day and night
But they′ll never ever find that cure,
That cure for love

@ Leonard Cohen

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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:

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

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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

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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:

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