leonard cohen

I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong That don't change the way I feel And I can't believe that time's Gonna heal this wound that I'm speaking of There ain't …

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, You were talking so brave and so sweet. Giving me head on the unmade bed While the limousines wait in the street Those were the reasons and that was New York, We were running for the money …

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love Oh …

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows 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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Suzanne takes you down To her place by 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 want to be there; And she feeds you tea and …

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 everyday in the Tower of Song I said to Hank …