Leonard Cohen - Avalanche

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Well I stepped into an avalanche,
it covered up my soul;
when I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath the golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn, learn to serve me well.
You strike my side by accident
as you go down for your gold.
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
is neither starved nor cold;
he does not ask for your company,
not at the centre, the centre of the world.

When I am on a pedestal,
you did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
to kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
for this ugly hump at which you stare.

You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they re the crumbs I ve left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it s just the shadow, shadow of my wound.

I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I wh ohave no need.
You say you ve gone away from me,
but I can feel you when you breathe.

Do not dress in those rags for me,
I know you are not poor;
you don t love me quite so fiercely now
when you know that you are not sure,
it is your turn, beloved,
it is your flesh that I wear.

Inne utwory

  • Store room
  • Coming back to you
  • Love calls you by your name
  • Everybody knows
  • The faith
  • The marriage march
  • Heart with no companion
  • We told you so
  • Way down deep
  • Song of destruction
  • Anthem
  • Hallelujah
  • Here it is
  • Always
  • Sisters of mercy
  • Master song
  • Minute prologue
  • I came so far for beauty
  • The old revolution
  • Losowe utwory

    Mauled

    An excursion in science
    Becomes a bloodbath hosted by nature
    A closer look at life
    Slashed, dismembered and eaten raw
    Feast for the wild
    Mauled
    Chewed and ripped into fragments
    Blunt force facial restructurization
    Shoulder to shoulder
    Squeezed together
    Compound fracture of the torso
    Such sites are quite appalling
    Stupid humans for the mauling
    Us-kill them?...

    Entre dos aguas

    As I look into your eyes
    I see the reasons why
    my life is worth a thousand heavens, baby
    when you whisper in my ear
    I feel myself so high
    I know that this time it s forever.

    I waited all my life
    never thought that it could happen

    Open your eyes

    Love is freewheeling, keeps me wakin all night long
    But just like makin love, becomes a part of you
    Nobody s losing when we get so satisfied
    Because of you i ve got to shouting out my love

    Open your eyes, there s my love, turn it over...

    Dice

    I was crying over you
    I am smiling I think if you
    Where your garden have no walls
    Breathe in the air if you care, you compare, don t say farewell
    Nothing can compare
    To when you roll the dice and you swear that your love s for me
    Nothing can compare
    To when you...

    Losing my mind

    The sun comes up - I think about you
    The coffee cup - I think about you
    I want you so, it s like I m losing my mind

    The morning ends - I think about you
    I talk to friends and think about you...

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