WAITING
FOR THE MIRACLE
(Leonard
Cohen)
Baby, I've been waiting,
I've been waiting night
and day.
I didn't see the time,
I waited half my life away.
There were lots of invitations
and I know you sent me some,
but I was waiting
for the miracle, for the
miracle to come.
I know you really loved me.
but, you see, my hands were
tied.
I know it must have hurt
you,
it must have hurt your pride
to have to stand beneath
my window
with your bugle and your
drum,
and me I'm up there waiting
for the miracle, for the
miracle to come.
Ah I don't believe you'd
like it,
You wouldn't like it here.
There ain't no entertainment
and the judgements are severe.
The Maestro says it's Mozart
but it sounds like bubble
gum
when you're waiting
for the miracle, for the
miracle to come.
Waiting for the miracle
There's nothing left to
do.
I haven't been this happy
since the end of World War
II.
Nothing left to do
when you know that you've
been taken.
Nothing left to do
when you're begging for
a crumb
Nothing left to do
when you've got to go on
waiting
waiting for the miracle
to come.
I dreamed about you, baby.
It was just the other night.
Most of you was naked
Ah but some of you was light.
The sands of time were falling
from your fingers and your
thumb,
and you were waiting
for the miracle, for the
miracle to come.
Ah baby, let's get married,
we've been alone too long.
Let's be alone together.
Let's see if we're that
strong.
Yeah let's do something
crazy,
something absolutely wrong
while we're waiting
for the miracle, for the
miracle to come.
Nothing left to do ...
When you've fallen on the
highway
and you're lying in the
rain,
and they ask you how you're
doing
of course you'll say you
can't complain --
If you're squeezed for information,
that's when you've got to
play it dumb:
You just say you're out
there waiting
for the miracle, for the
miracle to come. |
EVERYBODY
KNOWS
(Leonard
Cohen)
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
Everybody
knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody
knows the captain lied
Everybody
got this broken feeling
Like
their father or their dog just died
Everybody
talking to their pockets
Everybody
wants a box of chocolates
And
a long stem rose
Everybody
knows
Everybody
knows that you love me, baby
Everybody
knows that you really do
Everybody
knows that you've been faithful
Ah
give or take a night or two
Everybody
knows you've been discreet
But
there were so many people you just had to meet
Without
your clothes
And
everybody knows
Everybody
knows, everybody knows
That's
how it goes
Everybody
knows
Everybody
knows, everybody knows
That's
how it goes
Everybody
knows
And
everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody
knows that it's me or you
And
everybody knows that you live forever
Ah
when you've done a line or two
Everybody
knows the deal is rotten
Old
Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For
your ribbons and bows
And
everybody knows
And
everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody
knows that it's moving fast
Everybody
knows that the naked man and woman
Are
just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody
knows the scene is dead
But
there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That
will disclose
What
everybody knows
And
everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody
knows what you've been through
From
the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To
the beach of Malibu
Everybody
knows it's coming apart
Take
one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before
it blows
And
everybody knows
Everybody
knows, everybody knows
That's
how it goes
Everybody
knows
Oh
everybody knows, everybody knows
That's
how it goes
Everybody
knows
Everybody
knows. |
TAKE
THIS WALTZ
(Leonard
Cohen)
Now in Vienna there's ten
pretty women
There's a shoulder where
Death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine
hundred windows
There's a tree where the
doves go to die
There's a piece that was
torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery
of Frost
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this
waltz
Take this waltz with the
clamp on its jaws
Oh I want you, I want you,
I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of
the lily
In some hallways where love's
never been
On a bed where the moon
has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps
and sand
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this
waltz
Take its broken waist in
your hand
This waltz, this waltz, this
waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath
of brandy and Death
Dragging its tail in the
sea
There's a concert hall in
Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand
reviews
There's a bar where the
boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to
death by the blues
Ah, but who is it climbs
to your picture
With a garland of freshly
cut tears?
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this
waltz
Take this waltz it's been
dying for years
There's an attic where children
are playing
Where I've got to lie down
with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian
lanterns
In the mist of some sweet
afternoon
And I'll see what you've
chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your
lilies of snow
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this
waltz
With its "I'll never forget
you, you know!"
This waltz, this waltz, this
waltz, this waltz ...
And I'll dance with you in
Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's
disguise
The hyacinth wild on my
shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your
thighs
And I'll bury my soul in
a scrapbook,
With the photographs there,
and the moss
And I'll yield to the flood
of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross
And you'll carry me down
on your dancing
To the pools that you lift
on your wrist
Oh my love, Oh my love
Take this waltz, take this
waltz
It's yours now. It's all
that there is. |
I'M
YOUR MAN
(Leonard
Cohen)
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
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
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. |
