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The essential

2002 |

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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.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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. 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.

3. Sisters of MercyVer letra
   

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   Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
   They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on.
   And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song.
   Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long.
   Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
   It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul.
   Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
   When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
   Well 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.
   When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.
   Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
   And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
   We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right,
   We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.

4. Hey, that's no way to say goodbye
   
5. So long, MarianneVer letra
   

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   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

6. Bird on a wire
   
7. The partisanVer letra
   

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   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.

8. Famous blue raincoatVer letra
   

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   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

9. Chelsea hotel 2
   
10. Take this longingVer letra
    

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    Many men have loved the bells
    You fastened to the rein,
    And everyone who wanted you
    They found what they will always want again.
    Your beauty lost to you yourself
    Just as it was lost to them.
    Oh take this longing from my tongue,
    Whatever useless things these hands have done.
    Let me see your beauty broken down
    Like you would do for one you love.
    Your body like a searchlight
    My poverty revealed,
    I would like to try your charity
    Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
    And everything depends upon
    How near you sleep to me
    Just take this longing from my tongue
    All the lonely things my hands have done.
    Let me see your beauty broken down
    Like you would do for one your love.
    Hungry as an archway
    Through which the troops have passed,
    I stand in ruins behind you,
    With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps.
    I love to see you naked over there
    Especially from the back.
    Oh take this longing from my tongue,
    All the useless things my hands have done,
    Untie for me your hired blue gown,
    Like you would do for one that you love.
    You're faithful to the better man,
    I'm afraid that he left.
    So let me judge your love affair
    In this very room where I have sentenced
    Mine to death.
    I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
    That he's shaken from his head.
    Just take this longing from my tongue,
    All the useless things my hands have done,
    Let me see your beauty broken down,
    Like you would do for one you love.
    Like you would do for one you love.

11. Who by fireVer letra
    

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    And who by fire, who by water,
    Who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
    Who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
    Who in your merry merry month of may,
    Who by very slow decay,
    And who shall I say is calling?
    And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,
    Who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,
    And who by avalanche, who by powder,
    Who for his greed, who for his hunger,
    And who shall I say is calling?
    And who by brave assent, who by accident,
    Who in solitude, who in this mirror,
    Who by his lady's command, who by his own hand,
    Who in mortal chains, who in power,
    And who shall I say is calling?

12. The guestsVer letra
    

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    One by one, the guests arrive
    The guests are coming through
    The open-hearted many
    The broken-hearted few
    And no one knows where the night is going
    And no one knows why the wine is flowing
    Oh love I need you
    I need you
    I need you
    I need you
    Oh I need you now
    And those who dance, begin to dance
    Those who weep begin
    And "Welcome, welcome" cries a voice
    "Let all my guests come in."
    And no one knows where the night is going
    And all go stumbling through that house
    in lonely secrecy
    Saying "Do reveal yourself"
    or "Why has thou forsaken me?"
    And no one knows where the night is going
    All at once the torches flare
    The inner door flies open
    One by one they enter there
    In every style of passion
    And no one knows where the night is going
    And here they take their sweet repast
    While house and grounds dissolve
    And one by one the guests are cast
    Beyond the garden wall
    And no one knows where the night is going
    Those who dance, begin to dance
    Those who weep begin
    Those who earnestly are lost
    Are lost and lost again
    And no one knows where the night is going
    One by the guests arrive
    The guests are coming through
    The broken-hearted many
    The open-hearted few
    And no one knows where the night is going

13. HallelujahVer letra
    

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    Now I've heard there was a secret chord
    That David played, and it pleased the Lord
    But you don't really care for music, do you?
    It goes like this
    The fourth, the fifth
    The minor fall, the major lift
    The baffled king composing Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Your faith was strong but you needed proof
    You saw her bathing on the roof
    Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
    She tied you
    To a kitchen chair
    She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
    And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    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
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    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
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah

14. If it be your willVer letra
    

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    If it be your will
    That I speak no more
    And my voice be still
    As it was before
    I will speak no more
    I shall abide until
    I am spoken for
    If it be your will
    If it be your will
    That a voice be true
    From this broken hill
    I will sing to you
    From this broken hill
    All your praises they shall ring
    If it be your will
    To let me sing
    From this broken hill
    All your praises they shall ring
    If it be your will
    To let me sing
    If it be your will
    If there is a choice
    Let the rivers fill
    Let the hills rejoice
    Let your mercy spill
    On all these burning hearts in hell
    If it be your will
    To make us well
    And draw us near
    And bind us tight
    All your children here
    In their rags of light
    In our rags of light
    All dressed to kill
    And end this night
    If it be your will
    If it be your will

15. Night comes onVer letra
    

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    I went down to the place
    Where I knew she lay waiting
    Under the marble and the snow
    I said, Mother I'm frightened
    The thunder and the lightning
    I'll never come through this alone
    She said, I'll be with you
    My shawl wrapped around you
    My hand on your head when you go
    And the night came on
    It was very calm
    I wanted the night to go on and on
    But she said, Go back to the World
    We were fighting in Egypt
    When they signed this agreement
    That nobody else had to die
    There was this terrible sound
    And my father went down
    With a terrible wound in his side
    He said, Try to go on
    Take my books, take my gun
    Remember, my son, how they lied
    And the night comes on
    It's very calm
    I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong
    But you don't want to lie, not to the young
    We were locked in this kitchen
    I took to religion
    And I wondered how long she would stay
    I needed so much
    To have nothing to touch
    I've always been greedy that way
    But my son and my daughter
    Climbed out of the water
    Crying, Papa, you promised to play
    And they lead me away
    To the great surprise
    It's Papa, don't peek, Papa, cover your eyes
    And they hide, they hide in the World
    Now I look for her always
    I'm lost in this calling
    I'm tied to the threads of some prayer
    Saying, When will she summon me
    When will she come to me
    What must I do to prepare
    When she bends to my longing
    Like a willow, like a fountain
    She stands in the luminous air
    And the night comes on
    And it's very calm
    I lie in her arms and says, When I'm gone
    I'll be yours, yours for a song
    Now the crickets are singing
    The vesper bells ringing
    The cat's curled asleep in his chair
    I'll go down to Bill's Bar
    I can make it that far
    And I'll see if my friends are still there
    Yes, and here's to the few
    Who forgive what you do
    And the fewer who don't even care
    And the night comes on
    It's very calm
    I want to cross over, I want to go home
    But she says, Go back, go back to the World

16. I'm your man
    
17. Everybody knowsVer letra
    

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    Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
    Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
    Everybody knows that the war is over
    Everybody knows the good guys lost
    Everybody knows the fight was fixed
    The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
    Everybody knows that the captain lied
    Everybody got this broken feeling
    Like their father or their dog just died
    Everybody talking to their pockets
    Everybody wants a box of chocolates
    And a long stem rose
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows that you love me baby
    Everybody knows that you really do
    Everybody knows that you've been faithful
    Ah give or take a night or two
    Everybody knows you've been discreet
    But there were so many people you just had to meet
    Without your clothes
    And everybody knows
    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    And everybody knows that it's now or never
    Everybody knows that it's me or you
    And everybody knows that you live forever
    Ah when you've done a line or two
    Everybody knows the deal is rotten
    Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
    For your ribbons and bows
    And everybody knows
    And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
    Everybody knows that it's moving fast
    Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
    Are just a shining artifact of the past
    Everybody knows the scene is dead
    But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
    That will disclose
    What everybody knows
    And everybody knows that you're in trouble
    Everybody knows what you've been through
    From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
    To the beach of Malibu
    Everybody knows it's coming apart
    Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
    Before it blows
    And everybody knows
    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows

18. Tower of songVer letra
    

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    Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
    I ache in the places where I used to play
    And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
    I'm just paying my rent every day
    Oh in the Tower of Song
    I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
    Hank Williams hasn't 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
    I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
    I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
    Ah they don't let a woman kill you
    Not in the Tower of Song
    Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
    The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
    And there's a mighty judgment 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 don't 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
    We'll never have to lose it again
    Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
    There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
    But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
    I'll be speaking to you sweetly
    From a window in the Tower of Song
    Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is gray
    I ache in the places where I used to play
    And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
    I'm just paying my rent every day
    Oh in the Tower of Song

Disco 2

1. Ain't no cure for love
   
2. Take this waltzVer letra
   

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   Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women
   There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
   There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
   There's a tree where the doves go to die
   There's a piece that was torn from the morning,
   And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
   Take this waltz, take this waltz
   Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
   I want you, I want you, I want you
   On a chair with a dead magazine
   In the cave at the tip of the lilly,
   In some hallway where love's never been
   On a bed where the moon has been sweating,
   In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
   Take this waltz, take this waltz
   Take its broken waist in your hand
   This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
   With its very own breath of brandy and Death
   Dragging its tail in the sea
   There's a concert hall in Vienna
   Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
   There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
   They've been sentenced to death by the blues
   Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
   With a garland of freshly cut tears?
   Take this waltz, take this waltz
   Take this waltz, it's been dying for years
   There's an attic where children are playing,
   Where I've got to lie down with you soon,
   In a dream of Hungarian lanterns,
   In the mist of some sweet afternoon
   And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow,
   All your sheep and your lillies of snow
   Take this waltz, take this waltz
   With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"
   This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
   With its very own breath of brandy and Death
   Dragging its tail in the sea
   And I'll dance with you in Vienna
   I'll be wearing a river's disguise
   The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
   My mouth on the dew of your thighs
   And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
   With the photographs there, and the moss
   And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
   My cheap violin and my cross
   And you'll carry me down on your dancing
   To the pools that you lift on your wrist
   O my love, o my love
   Take this waltz, take this waltz
   It's yours now. It's all that there is

3. First we take ManhattanVer letra
   

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   They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
   For trying to change the system from within
   I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
   First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
   I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
   I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
   I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
   First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
   I'd really like to live beside you, baby
   I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
   But you see that line there moving through the station?
   I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those
   Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
   You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
   How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
   First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
   I don't like your fashion business mister
   And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
   I don't like what happened to my sister
   First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
   I'd really like to live beside you, baby
   And I thank you for those items that you sent me
   The monkey and the plywood violin
   I practiced every night, now I'm ready
   First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
   I am guided
   Ah remember me, I used to live for music
   Remember me, I brought your groceries in
   Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded
   First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

4. Dance me to the end of love live
   
5. The futureVer letra
   

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   Give me back my broken night
   My mirrored room, my secret life
   It's lonely here,
   There's no one left to torture
   Give me absolute control
   Over every living soul
   And lie beside me, baby,
   That's an order!
   Give me crack and anal sex
   Take the only tree that's left
   And stuff it up the hole
   In your culture
   Give me back the berlin wall
   Give me stalin and st paul
   I've seen the future, brother
   It is murder.
   Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
   Won't be nothing
   Nothing you can measure anymore
   The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
   Has crossed the threshold
   And it has overturned
   The order of the soul
   When they said repent repent
   I wonder what they meant
   When they said repent repent
   I wonder what they meant
   When they said repent repent
   I wonder what they meant
   You don't know me from the wind
   You never will, you never did
   I'm the little jew
   Who wrote the bible
   I've seen the nations rise and fall
   I've heard their stories, heard them all
   But love's the only engine of survival
   Your servant here, he has been told
   To say it clear, to say it cold:
   It's over, it ain't going
   Any further
   And now the wheels of heaven stop
   You feel the devil's riding crop
   Get ready for the future:
   It is murder.
   Things are going to slide
   There'll be the breaking of the ancient
   Western code
   Your private life will suddenly explode
   There'll be phantoms
   There'll be fires on the road
   And the white man dancing
   You'll see a woman
   Hanging upside down
   Her features covered by her fallen gown
   And all the lousy little poets
   Coming round
   Tryin' to sound like charlie manson
   And the white man dancin'
   Give me back the berlin wall
   Give me stalin and st paul
   Give me christ
   Or give me hiroshima
   Destroy another fetus now
   We don't like children anyhow
   I've seen the future, baby
   It is murder.
   Things are going to slide
   When they said repent repent

6. DemocracyVer letra
   

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   letra de Democracy

   It's coming through a hole in the air,
   From those nights in Tiananmen Square.
   It's coming from the feel
   That this ain't exactly real,
   Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
   From the wars against disorder,
   From the sirens night and day,
   From the fires of the homeless,
   From the ashes of the gay:
   Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
   It's coming through a crack in the wall
   On a visionary flood of alcohol
   From the staggering account
   Of the Sermon on the Mount
   Which I don't pretend to understand at all.
   It's coming from the silence
   On the dock of the bay,
   From the brave, the bold, the battered
   Heart of Chevrolet
   Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
   It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
   The holy places where the races meet
   From the homicidal bitchin'
   That goes down in every kitchen
   To determine who will serve and who will eat.
   From the wells of disappointment
   Where the women kneel to pray
   For the grace of God in the desert here
   And the desert far away:
   Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
   Sail on, sail on
   O mighty Ship of State!
   To the Shores of Need
   Past the Reefs of Greed
   Through the Squalls of Hate
   Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.
   It's coming to America first,
   The cradle of the best and of the worst.
   It's here they got the range
   And the machinery for change
   And it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
   It's here the family's broken
   And it's here the lonely say
   That the heart has got to open
   In a fundamental way:
   Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
   It's coming from the women and the men.
   O baby, we'll be making love again.
   We'll be going down so deep
   The river's going to weep,
   And the mountain's going to shout Amen!
   It's coming like the tidal flood
   Beneath the lunar sway,
   Imperial, mysterious,
   In amorous array
   Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
   Sail on, sail on
   I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
   I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
   And I'm neither left or right
   I'm just staying home tonight,
   Getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
   But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
   That Time cannot decay,
   I'm junk but I'm still holding up
   This little wild bouquet
   Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

7. Waiting of the miracle
   
8. Closing timeVer letra
   

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   letra de Closing time

   Ah we're drinking and we're dancing
   And the band is really happening
   And the johnny walker wisdom running high
   And my very sweet companion
   She's the angel of compassion
   She's rubbing half the world against her thigh
   And every drinker every dancer
   Lifts a happy face to thank her
   The fiddler fiddles something so sublime
   All the women tear their blouses off
   And the men they dance on the polka-dots
   And it's partner found, it's partner lost
   And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops:
   It's closing time
   Yeah the women tear their blouses off
   And the men they dance on the polka-dots
   And it's partner found, it's partner lost
   And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops:
   It's closing time
   Ah we're lonely, we're romantic
   And the cider's laced with acid
   And the holy spirit's crying, "where's 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 can't say much has happened since
   But closing time
   I swear it happened just like this:
   A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
   The gates of love they budged an inch
   I can't say much has happened since
   Closing time
   I loved you for your beauty
   But that doesn't make a fool of me:
   You were in it for your beauty too
   And I loved you for your body
   There's a voice that sounds like god to me
   Declaring, declaring, declaring that your body's really you
   And I loved you when our love was blessed
   And I love you now there's nothing left
   But sorrow and a sense of overtime
   And I missed you since the place got wrecked
   And I just don't care what happens next
   Looks like freedom but it feels like death
   It's something in between, I guess
   It's closing time
   Yeah I missed 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's something in between, I guess
   It's closing time
   Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing
   But there's nothing really happening
   And the place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night
   And my very close companion
   Gets me fumbling gets me laughing
   She's a hundred but she's wearing
   Something tight
   And I lift my glass to the awful truth
   Which you can't reveal to the ears of youth
   Except to say it isn't worth a dime
   And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
   And it's once for the devil and once for christ
   But the boss don't like these dizzy heights
   We're busted in the blinding lights,
   Busted in the blinding lights
   Of closing time
   The whole damn place goes crazy twice
   And it's once for the devil and once for christ
   But the boss don't like these dizzy heights
   We're busted in the blinding lights,
   Busted in the blinding lights
   Of closing time
   Oh the women tear their blouses off
   And the men they dance on the polka-dots
   It's closing time
   And it's partner found, it's partner lost
   And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
   It's closing time
   I swear it happened just like this:
   A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
   It's closing time
   The gates of love they budged an inch
   I can't say much has happened since
   But closing time
   I loved you when our love was blessed
   I love you now there's nothing left
   But closing time
   I miss you since the place got wrecked
   By the winds of change and the weeds of sex.

9. AnthemVer letra
   

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   letra de Anthem

   The birds they sang
   At the break of day
   Start again
   I heard them say
   Don't dwell on what
   Has passed away
   Or what is yet to be.
   Ah the wars they will
   Be fought again
   The holy dove
   She will be caught again
   Bought and sold
   And bought again
   The dove is never free.
   Ring the bells that still can ring
   Forget your perfect offering
   There is a crack in everything
   That's how the light gets in.
   We asked for signs
   The signs were sent
   The birth betrayed
   The marriage spent
   Yeah the widowhood
   Of every government
   Signs for all to see.
   I can't run no more
   With that lawless crowd
   While the killers in high places
   Say their prayers out loud.
   But they've summoned, they've summoned up
   A thundercloud
   And they're going to hear from me.
   Ring the bells that still can ring
   You can add up the parts
   But you won't have the sum
   You can strike up the march,
   There is no drum
   Every heart, every heart
   To love will come
   But like a refugee.
   Ring the bells that still can ring
   Forget your perfect offering
   There is a crack, a crack in everything
   That's how the light gets in.
   Ring the bells that still can ring
   Forget your perfect offering
   There is a crack, a crack in everything
   That's how the light gets in.
   That's how the light gets in.
   That's how the light gets in.

10. In my secret lifeVer letra
    

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    letra de In my secret life

    I saw you this morning.
    You were moving so fast.
    Can't seem to loosen my grip
    On the past.
    And I miss you so much.
    There's no one in sight.
    And we're still making love
    In My Secret Life.
    I smile when I'm angry.
    I cheat and I lie.
    I do what I have to do
    To get by.
    But I know what is wrong,
    And I know what is right.
    And I'd die for the truth
    In My Secret Life.
    Hold on, hold on, my brother.
    My sister, hold on tight.
    I finally got my orders.
    I'll be marching through the morning,
    Marching through the night,
    Moving cross the borders
    Of My Secret Life.
    Looked through the paper.
    Makes you want to cry.
    Nobody cares if the people
    Live or die.
    And the dealer wants you thinking
    That it's either black or white.
    Thank G-d it's not that simple
    In My Secret Life.
    I bite my lip.
    I buy what I'm told:
    From the latest hit,
    To the wisdom of old.
    But I'm always alone.
    And my heart is like ice.
    And it's crowded and cold
    In My Secret Life.

11. Alexandra leavingVer letra
    

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    letra de Alexandra leaving

    Suddenly the night has grown colder.
    The god of love preparing to depart.
    Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
    They slip between the sentries of the heart.
    Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,
    They gain the light, they formlessly entwine
    And radiant beyond your widest measure
    They fall among the voices and the wine.
    It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving,
    A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust
    Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
    Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
    Even though she sleeps upon your satin
    Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
    Do not say the moment was imagined
    Do not stoop to strategies like this.
    As someone long prepared for this to happen,
    Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
    Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.
    Your firm commitments tangible again.
    And you who had the honor of her evening,
    And by the honor had your own restored
    Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
    Alexandra leaving with her lord.
    Even though she sleeps upon your satin
    Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
    Do not say the moment was imagined
    Do not stoop to strategies like this.
    As someone long prepared for the occasion
    In full command of every plan you wrecked
    Do not choose a coward's explanation
    that hides behind the cause and the effect.
    And you who were bewildered by a meaning
    Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed
    Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
    Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
    Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
    Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

12. A thousand kisses deepVer letra
    

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    letra de 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 summoned now to deal
    With your invincible defeat,
    You live your life as if it's real,
    A Thousand Kisses Deep.
    I'm turning tricks, I'm getting fixed,
    I'm back on Boogie Street.
    You lose your grip, and then you slip
    Into the Masterpiece.
    And maybe I had miles to drive,
    And promises to keep:
    You ditch it all to stay alive,
    A Thousand Kisses Deep.
    And sometimes when the night is slow,
    The wretched and the meek,
    We gather up our hearts and go,
    A Thousand Kisses Deep.
    Confined to sex, we pressed against
    The limits of the sea:
    I saw there were no oceans left
    For scavengers like me.
    I made it to the forward deck.
    I blessed our remnant fleet
    And then consented to be wrecked,
    A Thousand Kisses Deep.
    I'm turning tricks, I'm getting fixed,
    I'm back on Boogie Street.
    I guess they won't exchange the gifts
    That you were meant to keep.
    And quiet is the thought of you,
    The file on you complete,
    Except what we forgot to do,
    A Thousand Kisses Deep.
    And sometimes when the night is slow,
    The wretched and the meek,
    We gather up our hearts and go,
    A Thousand Kisses Deep.
    The ponies run, the girls are young,
    The odds are there to beat

13. Love itselfVer letra
    

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    letra de Love itself

    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.
    I'll try to say a little more
    Love went on and on
    Until it reached an open door
    Then Love Itself
    Love Itself was gone.
    All busy in the sunlight
    The flecks did float and dance,
    And I was tumbled up with them
    In formless circumstance.
    I'll try to say a little more
    Love went on and on
    Until it reached an open door
    Then Love Itself
    Love Itself was gone.
    Then I came back from where I'd been.
    My room, it looked the same
    But there was nothing left between
    The Nameless and the Name.
    All busy in the sunlight
    The flecks did float and dance,
    And I was tumbled up with them
    In formless circumstance.
    I'll try to say a little more
    Love went on and on
    Until it reached an open door
    Then Love itself,
    Love Itself was gone.
    Love Itself was gone.

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