Words & Music by Leonard Cohen
From Greatest Hits, Vol. III (1997) |
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She stands before you naked
You can see it, you can taste it But she comes to you Light as the breeze You can drink or you can nurse it It don't matter how you worship As long as you're Down on your knees So I knelt there at the delta At the alpha and the omega At the craddle of the river And the seas And like a blessing come from heaven, For something like a second, I was healed, and my heart Was at ease |
Oh baby I've waited
So long for your kiss
For something to happen
Oh, something like this
And you're weak and you're harmless
And you're sleeping in you harness
And the wind going wild
In the trees
And it's not exactly prision
But you'll never be forgiven
For whatever you've done
With the keys
Oh baby I waited
So long for your kiss
For something to happen
Oh, something like this
It's dark and it's snowing
Oh my love I must be going
The river is starting to freeze
And I'm sick of pretending
I'm broken from bending
I've lived too long
On my knees
And she dances so graceful
And your heart's hard and hateful
And she's naked
But that's just a tease
And you turn in disgust
From your hatred and from your lust
And she comes to you
Light as the breeze
Oh baby I waited
So long for your kiss
For something to happen
Oh, something like this
There's blood on every bracelet
You can see it, you can taste it
And it's please baby
Please baby please
And she says, drink deeply, pilgrim
But don't forget there's still a woman
Beneath this resplendent chemise
So I knelt there at the Delta
At the Alpha and Omega
I knelt there
Like one who believes
And like a blessing come from heaven
For something like a second
I was cured, and my heart was at ease
So long for your kiss
For something to happen
Oh, something like this
And you're weak and you're harmless
And you're sleeping in you harness
And the wind going wild
In the trees
And it's not exactly prision
But you'll never be forgiven
For whatever you've done
With the keys
Oh baby I waited
So long for your kiss
For something to happen
Oh, something like this
It's dark and it's snowing
Oh my love I must be going
The river is starting to freeze
And I'm sick of pretending
I'm broken from bending
I've lived too long
On my knees
And she dances so graceful
And your heart's hard and hateful
And she's naked
But that's just a tease
And you turn in disgust
From your hatred and from your lust
And she comes to you
Light as the breeze
Oh baby I waited
So long for your kiss
For something to happen
Oh, something like this
There's blood on every bracelet
You can see it, you can taste it
And it's please baby
Please baby please
And she says, drink deeply, pilgrim
But don't forget there's still a woman
Beneath this resplendent chemise
So I knelt there at the Delta
At the Alpha and Omega
I knelt there
Like one who believes
And like a blessing come from heaven
For something like a second
I was cured, and my heart was at ease
Words and Music by Leonard Cohen. © 1992 (Unclear)
Photo: Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" ("Drink deeply, pilgrim, but don't forget there's still a woman beneath this resplendent chemise.")
Photo: Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" ("Drink deeply, pilgrim, but don't forget there's still a woman beneath this resplendent chemise.")