Leonard Cohen Poems

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
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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
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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 every day
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Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
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With Annie gone,
whose eyes to compare
with the morning sun?
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
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Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
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Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on.
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Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
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The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
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