Famous

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?

Blue

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?

Raincoat

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
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

Leonard Cohen /// North & South /// *

Lady

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"

Midnight

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

yes, you've won me, you've won me, my lord

ah, you've won me

you've won me, my lord

Leonard Cohen /// *

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 /// *

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

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 /// *

Leonard Cohen

Oh, my dear friend

explain me again

everything about life

Joan Of Arc

she said, i'm tired of the war

i want the kind of work i had before

a wedding dress or something white

to wear upon my swollen appetite

well, i'm glad to hear you talk this way

you know i've watched you riding every day

and something in me yearns to win

such a cold and lonesome heroine

and who are you?, she sternly spoke

to the one beneath the smoke

why, i'm fire, he replied

and i love your solitude

i love your pride

i saw her wince, i saw her cry

i saw the glory in her eye

myself i long for love and light

but must it come so cruel

and oh, so bright

Leonard Cohen /// Joan Of Arc /// *