Leonard Cohen - Dear Heater (2004) by Leonard Cohen (보컬) on maniadb.com

So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night
Though the heart be still as loving
And the moon be still as bright
For the sword outwears its sheath
And the soul outwears the breast
And the heart must pause to breathe
And love itself have rest
Though the night was made for loving
And the day returns too soon
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon

Because of a few songs
Wherein I spoke of their mystery
Women have been
Exceptionally kind
To my old age
They make a secret place
In their busy lives
And they take me there
They become naked
In their different ways
and they say

"Look at me, Leonard
Look at me one last time."
Then they bend over the bed
And cover me up
Like a baby that is shivering

You never liked to get
The letters that I sent
But now you've got the gist
Of what my letters meant

You're reading them again
The ones you didn't burn
You press them to your lips
My pages of concern

I said there'd been a flood
I said there's nothing left
I hoped that you would come
I gave you my address

Your story was so long
The plot was so intense
It took you years to cross
The lines of self-defense

The wounded forms appear
The loss, the full extent
And simple kindness here
The solitude of strength

You walk into my room
You stand there at my desk
Begin your letter to
The one who's coming next

I set out one night
When the tide was low
There were signs in the sky
But I did not know
I'd be caught in the grip
Of the undertow
Ditched on a beach
Where the sea hates to go
With a child in my arms
And a chill in my soul
And my heart the shape
Of a begging bowl

No words this time?
No words
No, there are times when nothing can be done
Not this time
Is it censorship?
Is it censorship?
No, it's evaporation
No, it's evaporation

Is this leading somewhere?
Yes
We're going down the lane
Is this going somewhere?
Into the garden
Into the backyard
We're walking down the driveway
Are we moving towards
We're in the backyard
Some transcendental moment?
It's almost light
That's right
That's it

Are we moving towards some transcendental moment?
That's right
That's it
Do you think you'll be able to pull it off?
Yes. Do you think you can pull it off?
Yes, it might happen
I'm all ears
I'm all ears
Oh the morning glory!

Some people say
It's what we deserve
For sins against g-d
For crimes in the world
I wouldn't know
I'm just holding the fort
Since that day
They wounded New York
Some people say
They hate us of old
Our women unveiled
Our slaves and our gold
I wouldn't know
I'm just holding the fort
But answer me this
I won't take you to court
Did you go crazy
Or did you report
On that day
On that day
They wounded New York

From bitter searching of the heart
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part
This is the faith from which we start
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart
We loved the easy and the smart
But now, with keener hand and brain
We rise to play a greater part
The lesser loyalties depart
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain
We rise to play a greater part
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part
This is the faith from which we start
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part
The lesser loyalties depart
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part
This is the faith from which we start
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part
This is the faith from which we start
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain
We rise to play a greater part
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part

When it all went down
And the pain came through
I get it now
I was there for you
Don't ask me how
I know it's true
I get it now
I was there for you
I make my plans
Like I always do
But when I look back
I was there for you
I walk the streets
Like I used to do
And I freeze with fear
But I'm there for you
I see my life
In full review
It was never me
It was always you
You sent me here
You sent me there
Breaking things
I can't repair
Making objects
Out of thoughts
Making more
By thinking not
Eating food
And drinking wine
A body that
I thought was mine
Dressed as Arab
Dressed as Jew
O mask of iron
I was there for you
Moods of glory
Moods so foul
The world comes through
A bloody towel
And death is old
But it's always new
I freeze with fear
And I'm there for you
I see it clear
I always knew
It was never me
I was there for you
I was there for you
My darling one
And by your law
It all was done
Don't ask me how
I know it's true
I get it now
I was there for you
Don't ask me how
I know it's true
I get it now
I was there for you
Don't ask me how
I know it's true
I get it now
I was there for you

Dear Heather
Please walk by me again
With a drink in your hand
And your legs all white From the winter
And your legs all white From the winter
Dear Heather
Please walk by me again
With a drink in your hand
And your legs all white From the winter
And your legs all white From the winter
And your legs all white From the winter
Dear Heather
Please walk by me again
With a drink in your hand
And your legs all white From the winter
And your legs all white From the winter
And your legs all white From the winter
Dear Heather
Please walk by me again
With a drink in your hand
And your legs all white From the winter
And your legs all white From the winter

I built my house beside the wood
So I could hear you singing
And it was sweet and it was good
And love was all beginning
Fare thee well my nightingale
It was long ago I found you
Now all your songs of beauty fail
The forest closes around you
The sun goes down behind a veil
It is now that you would call me
So rest in peace my nightingale
Beneath your branch of holly
Fare thee well my nightingale
It was long ago I found you
Now all your songs of beauty fail
The forest closes around you
Fare thee well my nightingale
I lived but to be near you
Tho' you are singing somewhere still
I can no longer hear you

Hurt once and for all into silence
A long pain ending without a song to prove it
Who could stand beside you so close to Eden
When you glinted in every eye the held-high razor,
shivering every ram and son?
And now the silent loony bin, where
The shadows live in the rafters like Day-weary bats
Until the turning mind, a radar signal
Lures them to exaggerate
Mountain-size on the white stone wall
Your tiny limp
How can I leave you in such a house?
Are there no more saints and wizards
To praise their ways with pupils
No more evil to stun with the slap
Of a wet red tongue?
Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror
And rest because he had finally come?
Let me cry Help beside you, Teacher
I have entered under this dark roof
As fearlessly as an honoured son
Enters his father's house

I was dancing with my darlin'
To the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
Introduced him to my loved one
And while they were waltzing
My friend stole my sweetheart from me

I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz
Now I know just how much I have lost
Yes I lost my little darlin'
The night they were playing
The beautiful Tennessee Waltz

She comes dancing through the darkness
To the Tennessee Waltz
And I feel like I'm falling apart
And it's stronger than drink
And it's deeper than sorrow
This darkness she's left in my heart