Leonard Cohen songs lyrics

One by one, the guests arrive The guests are coming through The open-hearted many The broken-hearted few And no one knows where the night is...

Ah we're drinking and we're dancing and the band is really happening and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high And my very sweet companion she's...

It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that this ain't exactly real, or it's...

Do you remember all of those pledges That we pledged in the passionate night Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges Like moths on a...

The woman in blue, she's asking for revenge, the man in white -- that's you -- says he has no friends. The river is swollen up with rusty cans and...

Why do you stand by the window Abandoned to beauty and pride The thorn of the night in your bosom The spear of the age in your side Lost in the...

It feels so good And it feels so right It feels like I've been rescued In the middle of the night And all the tricks and all the angels And all the...

I came by myself to a very crowded place; I was looking for someone who had lines in her face. I found her there but she was past all concern; I...

The walls of this hotel are paper thin Last night I heard you making love to him The struggle mouth to mouth and limb to limb The grunt of unity when...

The door it opened slowly, my father he came in,was nine years old. And he stood so tall above me, his blue eyes they were shining and his voice...

I saw Jesus on the cross on a hill called Calvary "Do you hate mankind for what they done to you?" He said, "Talk of love not hate, things to do -...

And where, where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight I've heard all the wild reports, they can't be right But whose head is this she's dancing with on...

I finally broke into the prison, I found my place in the chain. Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows, all the brave young men they're...

I cannot follow you, my love, you cannot follow me. I am the distance you put between all of the moments that we will be. You know who I am, ...

(Written By Warnes, Cohen, Recorded By Warnes) There was a child named Bernadette I heard the story long ago She saw the Queen of Heaven once ...

Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past. We swore to each other then that our love would surely last. You kept right on loving, I went on a...

(Written By Warnes, Cohen, Recorded By Warnes) way down, way way down way way down deep you're got me way down, way way down, way way down...

(Oh friends, .. don't matter if you're a man or a woman. If you're in love with somebody, these are the words that you got to learn to say. Now ...

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...

Your father's gone a-hunting He's deep in the forest so wild And he cannot take his wife with him He cannot take his child Your father's gone...