There’s only one bed and there’s only one prayer.
And I listen all night for your step on the stair.
Chorus
3. 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.
Chorus
THE GUESTS
WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN
Additional Lyrics
3. And all go stumbling through that house in lonely secrecy,
Saying, “Do reveal yourself,” or, “Why hast thou forsaken me?”
Chorus
4. All at once the torches flare, the inner door flies open.
One by one, they enter there in every style of passion.
Chorus
5. And here they take their sweet repast while house and grounds dissolve.
And one by one, the guests are cast beyond the garden walls.
Chorus
6. And those who dance begin to dance, those who weep begin.
And those who earnestly are lost, are lost and lost again.
Chorus
7. One by one, the guests arrive, the guests are coming through.
The broken-hearted many, the open-hearted few.
SING ANOTHER SONG, BOYS
WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN
Additional Lyrics
(After 1st ending)
Bridge II. He stands where it is steep,
Ah, I guess he thinks that he’s the very first one.
His hands 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 with the chain of his famous cigarillo.
3. They’ll never, they’ll never ever reach the moon,
At least not the one that we’re after.
(To 2nd ending)
A SINGER MUST DIE
WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN
Additional Lyrics
2. And I thank you, I thank you for doing your duty,
You keepers of Truth, you guardians of Beauty.
Your vision is right, my vision is wrong,
I’m sorry for smudging the air with my song.
La la la la, la la la la la la,
La la la la la, la la la la la la.
3. The night, it is thick, my defenses are hid
In the clothes of a woman I would like to forgive,
In the rings of her silk, in the hinge of her thighs,
Where I have to go begging in beauty’s disguise.
Goodnight, goodnight, my night after night,
My night after night after night after night.
4. I am so afraid that I listen to you,
Your sunglassed protectors, they do that to you.
It’s their ways to detain, it’s their ways to disgrace,
Their knee in your balls and their fist in your face.
Yes, and long live the state, by whoever it’s made.
Sir, I didn’t see nothing, I was just getting home late.
THE GYPSY’S WIFE
WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN
Additional Lyrics
2. Ah, the silver knives are flashing in the tired old café.
A ghost climbs on the table in a bridal negligee.
She says my body is the light, my body is the way.
I raise my arm against it all and I catch the bride’s bouquet.
Chorus
3. Too early for the rainbow, too early for the dove.
These are the final days, this is the darkness, this is the flood.
And there is no man or woman can be touched.
But you who come between them will be judged.
Chorus
SEEMS SO LONG AGO, NANCY
WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN
Additional Lyrics
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. And now you look around you,
see her everywhere.
Many use her body,
many comb her hair.
And 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.
TAKE THIS WALTZ
WORDS BY LEONARD COHEN/GARCIA LORCA
MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN
LADY MIDNIGHT
WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN
Additional Lyrics
2. 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.”
3. I cried, “Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old,
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, the 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.”
