Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 de Leonard Cohen

Listado de Canciones

1. Intro to So Long, Marianne
2. Bird On The Wire

   Letra

   Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, Like a knight from some old fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee. If I, if I have been unkind, I hope that you can just let it go by. If I, if I have been untrue I hope you know it was never to you. Like a baby, stillborn, Like a beast with his horn I have torn everyone who reached out for me. But I swear by this song And by all that I have done wrong I will make it all up to thee. I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, He said to me, "You must not ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" Oh like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir have tried in my way to be free.
3. Introduction
4. So Long, Marianne

   Letra

   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
5. Intro/Let's Renew Ourselves
6. You Know Who I Am

   Letra

   I cannot follow you, my love, You cannot follow me. I am the distance you put between All of the moments that we will be. You know who I am, You've stared at the sun, Well I am the one who loves Changing from nothing to one. Sometimes I need you naked, Sometimes I need you wild, I need you to carry my children in And I need you to kill a child. You know who I am If you should ever track me down I will surrender there And I will leave with you one broken man Whom I will teach you to repair. You know who I am I cannot follow you, my love, You cannot follow me. I am the distance you put between All of the moments that we will be. You know who I am
7. Intro To Poems
8. Lady Midnight

   Letra

   I came by myself to a very crowded place; I was looking for someone who had lines in her face. I found her there but she was past all concern; I asked her to hold me, I said, "Lady, unfold me," But she scorned me and she told me I was dead and I could never return. Well, I argued all night like so many have before, Saying, "Whatever you give me, I seem to need so much more." Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor, She said, "Don't try to use me or slyly refuse me, Just win me or lose me, It is this that the darkness is for." I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, The stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored." So I walked through the morning, sweet early morning, I could hear my lady calling, "You've won me, you've won me, my lord, You've won me, you've won me, my lord, Yes, you've won me, you've won me, my lord, Ah, you've won me, you've won me, my lord, Ah, you've won me, you've won me, my lord."
9. They Locked Up A Man (Poem)/A Person Who Eats Meat/Intro
10. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

    Letra

    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
11. The Stranger Song

    Letra

    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.
12. Tonight Will Be Fine

    Letra

    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, There's only one bed and there's 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, She's the soft naked lady love meant her to be And she's moving her body so brave and so free. If I've got to remember that's 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.
13. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
14. Diamonds In The Mine

    Letra

    The woman in blue, she's asking for revenge, The man in white -- that's you -- says he has no friends. The river is swollen up with rusty cans And the trees are burning in your promised land. And there are no letters in the mailbox, And there are no grapes upon the vine, And there are no chocolates in the boxes anymore, And there are no diamonds in the mine. Well, you tell me that your lover has a broken limb, You say you're kind of restless now and it's on account of him. Well, I saw the man in question, it was just the other night, He was eating up a lady where the lions and Christians fight. And there are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine, And there are no chocolates in the boxes anymore, And there are no diamonds in the mine. (You tell them now) Ah, there is no comfort in the covens of the witch, Some very clever doctor went and sterilized the bitch, And the only man of energy, yes the revolution's pride, He trained a hundred women just to kill an unborn child. And there are no letters in the mailbox, Oh no, there are no, no grapes upon your vine, And there are, there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore, And there are no diamonds in your mine. And there are no letters in the mailbox, And there are no grapes upon the vine, And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore, And there are no diamonds in your mine.
15. Suzane
16. Sing Another Song, Boys

    Letra

    (Let's sing another song, boys, this one has grown old and bitter.) Ah his fingernails, I see they're broken, His ships they're all on fire. The moneylender's lovely little daughter Ah, she's eaten, she's eaten with desire. She spies him through the glasses From the pawnshops of her wicked father. She hails him with a microphone That some poor singer, just like me, had to leave her. She tempts him with a clarinet, She waves a Nazi dagger. She finds him lying in a heap; She wants to be his woman. He says, "Yes, I might go to sleep But kindly leave, leave the future, Leave it open. " He stands where it is steep, Oh I guess he thinks that he's the very first one, His hand upon his leather belt now Like it was the wheel of some big ocean liner. And she will learn to touch herself so well As all the sails burn down like paper. And he has lit the chain Of his famous cigarillo. Ah, they'll never, they'll never ever reach the moon, At least not the one that we're after; It's floating broken on the open sea, look out there, my friends, And it carries no survivors. But lets leave these lovers wondering Why they cannot have each other, And let's sing another song, boys, This one has grown old and bitter.
17. The Partisan

    Letra

    Leonard Cohen - The Partisan The Partisan 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, I've 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 I'm 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 we'll come from the shadows. Les allemands e'taient chez moi, Ils me dirent, "r�©signe toi," Mais je n'ai pas peur; J'ai repris mon �¢me. The germans were at my home They said, "sign yourself," But I am not afraid I have retaken my soul. J'ai change' cent fois de nom, J'ai perdu femme et enfants Mais j'ai tant d'amis; J'ai la france entie're. I've changed names a hundred times I have lost wife and children But I have so many friends I have all of france Un vieil homme dans un grenier Pour la nuit nous a cache', Les allemands l'ont pris; Il est mort sans surprise. 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 we'll come from the shadows.
18. Famous Blue Raincoat

    Letra

    It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York is cold, but I like where I'm living There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening. I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record. Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear Did you ever go clear? Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder You'd been to the station to meet every train And you came home without Lili Marlene And you treated my woman to a flake of your life And when she came back she was nobody's wife. Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Well I see Jane's awake She sends her regards. And what can I tell you my brother, my killer What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you I'm glad you stood in my way. If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me Well your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free. Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried. And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear Sincerely L Cohen
19. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

    Letra

    It seems so long ago, Nancy was alone, looking ate the Late Late show through a semi-precious stone. In the House of Honesty her father was on trial, in the House of Mystery there was no one at all, there was no one at all. It seems so long ago, none of us were strong; Nancy wore green stockings and she slept with everyone. She never said she'd wait for us although she was alone, I think she fell in love for us in nineteen sixty one, in nineteen sixty one. It seems so long ago, Nancy was alone, a forty five beside her head, an open telephone. We told her she was beautiful, we told her she was free but none of us would meet her in the House of Mystery, the House of Mystery. And now you look around you, see her everywhere, many use her body, many comb her hair. In the hollow of the night when you are cold and numb you hear her talking freely then, she's happy that you've come, she's happy that you've come.