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Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will.
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The captain called me to his bed and fumbled for my hand 'Take these silver bars,' he said, 'I'm giving you command.' Command of what? There's no on here. There's only you and me. The rest are dead or in retreat or with the enemy. 'Complain, complain, that's all you've done ever since we lost, If it's not the crucifixion then it's the holocaust.'
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People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.
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And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, 'Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.'
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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When 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.
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Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.
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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.
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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.
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And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
Leonard Cohen -
I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
Leonard Cohen
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If you're squeezed for information,that's when you've got to play it dumb:You just say you're out there waitingfor the miracle to come.
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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.
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Here I stand, I'm your man.
Leonard Cohen -
Waiting for the miracleThere's nothing left to do.I haven't been this happysince the end of World War II.
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O you've seen that man before his golden arm dispatching cards but now it's rusted from the elbow to the finger And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter
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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
Leonard Cohen
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Ring the bells that still can ring.Forget your perfect offering.There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.
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Every heart to love will come But like a refugee.
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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
Leonard Cohen -
I told you when I came I was a stranger.
Leonard Cohen