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We're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening.
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.
The Future (1992)
It was only when you walked away I saw you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation.
The Energy of Slaves (1972)
Well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon.
Here I stand, I'm your man.
I'm Your Man (1988)
And you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover
Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.
Beautiful Losers (1966)
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.
Various Positions (1984)
May everyone live,
And may everyone die.
Hello, my love,
And my love, Goodbye.
Ten New Songs (2001)
Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.
If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to.
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you.
I'm Your Man (1988)
I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove she was moving too,
And every single breath that we drew was
Hallelujah.
Various Positions (1984)
I fought against the bottle
but I had to do it drunk
The light came through the window,
Straight from the sun above,
And so inside my little room
There plunged the rays of Love. In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the Nameless makes
A Name for one like me.
Ten New Songs (2001)
I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.
Warsaw concert (1985)
When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will
Ten New Songs (2001)
You want it darker
We kill the flame
You Want It Darker (2016)
It's 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
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone
who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Various Positions (1984)
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
Yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
In city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)