One Of Us

i lit a thin green candle

to make you jealous of me

but the room just filled up with mosquitos

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 just have to quit

then he wrote himself a prescription

and your name was mentioned in it

then he locked himself in a library shelf

with the details about honeymoon

and i hear from the nurse

that he's gotten much worse

and his practice is all in a ruin

Cannot Be Wrong

i heard of a saint who had loved you

so 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 took 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

Leonard Cohen /// La Double Vie De Véronique /// *

No One Knows

hell above and heaven below

all the trees are gone

the rain made such a lovely sound

to those who are six feet under ground

the leaves will bury every year

and no one knows i’m gone

I'm Gone

live me golden tell me dark

hide from graveyard john

the moon is full here every night

and i can bathe here in his light

the leaves will bury every year

and no one knows i’m gone

Tom Waits /// Northanger Abbey /// *

You Know

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

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

Leonard Cohen /// *

I'm

you haven't looked at me that way in years

you dreamed me up and left me here

how long was i dreaming for

what was it you wanted me for

Still

you haven't looked at me that way in years

your watch has stopped and the pond is clear

someone turn the lights back off

i'll love you til all time is gone

Here

you haven't looked at me

that way in years

.

but i'm still here

Tom Waits

I'm

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

if you want a partner

take my hand

or if you want to strike me down in anger

here i stand

i'm your man

.

if you want a boxer

i will step into the ring for you

and if you want a doctor

i'll examine every inch of you

if you want a driver

climb inside

or if you want to take me for a ride

you know you can

i'm your man

Your

ah, the moon's too bright

the chain's too tight

the beast won't go to sleep

i've been running through these promises to you

that i made and i could not keep

.

ah, but a man never got a woman back

not by begging on his knees

or i'd crawl to you baby

and i'd fall at your feet

and i'd howl at your beauty

like a dog in heat

and i'd claw at your heart

and i'd tear at your sheet

i'd say please, please

i'm your man

Man

and if you've got to sleep

a moment on the road

i will steer for you

and if you want to work the street alone

i'll disappear for you

if you want a father for your child

or only want to walk with me a while

across the sand

i'm your man

.

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

Leonard Cohen /// La La La Human Steps /// *

Good

waiting, i got no town to hide in

the country's got a hold of my soul

tv's dead and there ain't no war in my head

and you seem very beautiful to me

sleeping, but my works not done

i could be lying on an atom bomb

i'll take care

cause i know you'll be there

you seem very beautiful to me

Song

it is the rest of your life

keeps a rolling and rolling

picture in my pocket looks like you

it is the rest of your life

keeps a rolling, rolling, rolling along

were all

Blur

Watch

last night i dreamed that i was dreaming of you

and from a window across the lawn

i watched you undress

wearing your sunset of purple tightly

woven around your hair

that rose in strangled ebony curls

moving in a yellow bedroom light

.

the air is wet with sound

the faraway yelping of a wounded dog

and the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak

your house is so soft and fading

as it soaks the black summer heat

a light goes on and the door opens

and a yellow cat runs out on the stream

of hall light and into the yard

Her

a wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air

i hear your champagne laugh

you wear two lavender orchids

one in your hair and one on your hip

.

a string of yellow carnival lights

comes on with the dusk

circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo

and i hear a banjo tango

Disappear

and you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree

and i watched you as you disappeared

i watched you as you disappeared

.

i watched you

as you disappeared

.

i watched you as you

disappeared

Tom Waits /// La La La Human Steps /// *