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Songs of Leonard Cohen

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  1. SuzanneVer letra

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    Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river,
    You can hear the boats go by you can spend the night beside her,
    And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you wanna be there,
    And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China,
    And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her,
    Then she gets you on her wavelength and she lets the river answer,
    That you've always been her lover.
    [Chorus]
    And you want to travel with her,
    And you want to travel blind,
    And you know that she will trust you,
    For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
    And Jesus was a sailor when He walked upon the water,
    And He spent a long time watching from His lonely wooden tower,
    And when He knew for certain only drowning men could see him,
    He said "all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them,"
    But He Himself was broken, long before the sky would open
    Forsaken, almost human, He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.
    [Chorus]
    And you want to travel with him,
    And you want to travel blind,
    And you think maybe you'll trust him,
    For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.
    Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river,
    She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters,
    And the sun pours down like honey on Our Lady of the Harbour,
    And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers,
    There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning,
    They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever,
    While Suzanne holds the mirror.
    [Chorus]
    And you want to travel with her,
    And you want to travel blind,
    And you know that you can trust her,
    For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

  2. Master songVer letra

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    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 that's 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'd 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 some time 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 word and who had a rock,
    And who had you through the mails.
    Now your 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 crowd 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 your 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.
    Oh now you hear your master sing,
    Your shirt is all undone.
    And will you kneel beside this bed
    That we polished so long ago,
    Before your master chose instead
    To make my bed of snow?
    Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
    And you're speaking far too low.
    No I can't make out what your master said
    Before he made you go.
    Then I think you're playing far too rough
    For a lady who's been to the moon;
    I've lain by this window long enough
    To get used to an empty room.
    And your love is some dust in an old man's cough
    Who is tapping his foot to a tune,
    And your thighs are a ruin, you want too much,
    Let's say you came back some time too soon.
    I loved your master perfectly
    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'd do.
    I believe that you heard your master sing
    While I was sick in bed,
    I'm sure that he told you everything
    I must keep locked away in my head.
    Your master took you travelling,
    Well at least that's what you said,
    And now do you come back to bring
    Your prisoner wine and bread?

  3. Winter ladyVer letra

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    Trav'ling lady, stay awhile
    Until the night is over.
    I'm just a station on your way,
    I know I'm not your lover.
    Well I lived with a child of snow
    When I was a soldier,
    And I fought every man for her
    Until the nights grew colder.
    She used to wear her hair like you
    Except when she was sleeping,
    And then she'd weave it on a loom
    Of smoke and gold and breathing.
    And why are you so quiet now
    Standing there in the doorway?
    You chose your journey long before
    You came upon this highway.
    Traveling lady stay awhile
    Until the night is over.
    I'm just a station on your way,
    I know I'm not your lover.

  4. The stranger songVer letra

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    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
    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
    He'll 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
    He'll 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, he'll 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 you've seen that man before
    His golden arm dispatching cards
    But now it's rusted from the elbows 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.
    Ah you hate to see 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 there's a highway
    That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder
    It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder.
    You tell him to come in sit down
    But something makes you turn around
    The door is open you can't close your shelter
    You try the handle of the road
    It opens do not be afraid
    It's you my love, you who are the stranger
    It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
    Well, I've been waiting, I was sure
    We'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
    I think it's time to board another
    Please understand, I never had a secret chart
    To get me to the heart of this
    Or any other matter
    When he talks like this
    You don't know what he's after
    When he speaks like this,
    You don't know what he's after.
    Let's meet tomorrow if you choose
    Upon the shore, beneath the bridge
    That they are building on some endless river
    Then he leaves the platform
    For the sleeping car that's warm
    You realize, he's 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 ...
    And leaning on your window sill ...
    I told you when I came I was a stranger.

  5. Sister of mercy
  6. So long, MarianneVer letra

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    letra de So long, Marianne

    Come over to the window, my little darling
    I'd like to try to read your palm
    I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy
    Before I let you take me home
    Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
    To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
    Well you know that I love to live with you
    But you make me forget so very much
    I forget to pray for the angels
    And then the angels forget to pray for us
    Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
    We met when we were almost young
    Deep in the green lilac park
    You held on to me like I was a crucifix
    As we went kneeling through the dark
    Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
    Your letters they all say that you're beside me now
    Then why do I feel alone?
    I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
    Is fastening my ankle to a stone
    Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
    For now I need your hidden love
    I'm cold as a new razor blade
    You left when I told you I was curious
    I never said that I was brave
    Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
    Oh, you are really such a pretty one
    I see you've gone and changed your name again
    And just when I climbed this whole mountainside
    To wash my eyelids in the rain
    Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began

  7. Hey, that's no way to say goodbye
  8. Stories of the streetVer letra

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    letra de Stories of the street

    The stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices laugh.
    The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas,
    And I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose,
    Yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose.
    I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come,
    The cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone.
    But let me ask you one more time, O children of the dusk,
    All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?
    And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?
    Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me?
    O lady with your legs so fine O stranger at your wheel,
    You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
    The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask
    The nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass.
    And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite,
    And one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night.
    O come with me my little one, we will find that farm
    And grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm.
    And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am,
    O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb.
    With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl
    I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world.
    We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky,
    And lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye.

  9. TeachersVer letra

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    letra de Teachers

    I met a woman long ago
    Her hair the black that black can go,
    Are you a teacher of the heart?
    Soft she answered, no.
    I met a girl across the sea,
    Her hair the gold that gold can be,
    Are you a teacher of the heart?
    Yes, but not for thee.
    I met a man who lost his mind
    In some lost place I had to find,
    Follow me, the wise man said,
    But he walked behind.
    I walked into a hospital
    Where none was sick and none was well,
    When at night the nurses left
    I could not walk at all.
    Morning came and then came noon,
    Dinner time a scalpel blade
    Lay beside my silver spoon.
    Some girls wander by mistake
    Into the mess that scalpels make.
    Are you the teachers of my heart?
    We teach old hearts to break.
    One morning I woke up alone,
    The hospital and the nurses gone.
    Have I carved enough my Lord?
    Child, you are a bone.
    I ate and ate and ate,
    No, I did not miss a plate, well
    How much do these suppers cost?
    Well take it out in hate.
    I spent my hatred everyplace,
    On every work, on every face,
    Someone gave me wishes
    And I wished for an embrace.
    Several girls embraced me, then
    I was embraced by men,
    Is my passion perfect?
    No, do it once again.
    I was handsome, I was strong,
    I knew the words of every song.
    Did my singing please you?
    No, the words you sang were wrong.
    Who is it whom I address,
    Who takes down what I confess?
    Are you the teachers of my heart?
    We teach old hearts to rest.
    Oh teachers are my lessons done?
    I cannot do another one.
    They laughed and laughed and said
    Well child,
    Are your lessons done?
    Are your lessons done?
    Are your lessons done?

  10. One of us cannot be wrongVer letra

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    letra de One of us cannot be wrong

    I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me,
    But the room just filled up with mosquitoes, they heard that my body was free
    Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night and I put it in your little shoe
    And then I confess that I tortured the dress that you wore for the world to look through
    I showed my heart to the doctor. He said I'd just have to quit
    Then he wrote himself a prescription, your name was mentioned in it
    Then he locked himself in a library shelf with the details of our honeymoon
    And I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse and his practice is all in a ruin
    I heard of a saint who had loved you, I studied all night in his school
    He taught that the duty of lovers is to tarnish the golden rule
    And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure he drowned himself in the pool
    His body is gone but back here on the lawn his spirit continues to drool
    An Eskimo showed me a movie he'd recently taken of you
    The poor man could hardly stop shivering, his lips and his fingers were blue
    I suppose that he froze when the wind tore off your clothes
    And I guess he just never got warm, but you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice
    Oh please let me come into the storm

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