Leonard Cohen - Song of destruction

Tekst :

Your lives to change? An oracle to speak?
Some version of the wounded matador
Who turns toward the bull his other cheek
And entertains you with a torn physique?
Some prisoner in pyjamas dancing lewd
Trablinka waltzes, while another freak
Hangs himself to concentrate your mood
And sweeten up your putrid solitude?

(Michael) My drummer is the only one I trust
Let the drums go rolling through the night
And let them pulverise my deep disgust
With steady thunder, whips and dynamite
The man of sticks and skins is always right.
I found him near the cremetorium
Humiliated, begging for a fight.
I wrote the name of honour on a drum
O drummer tell the people why I ve come!

O listen to him and his saxophone

(Frank & Louis) Our musical genital unicorn

(Michael) He s very well hung with his golden horn
He d like to be standing out here alone
The light on his hands, his mouth, and his bone.

(Frank & Louis) So take your solo now and loose your way
In every fingered hole and brassy groan...
You ll soon begin to choke on what you play

(Michael) You re choking now exactly as I say!

(Michael, Frank As for the deeper spirits in the hall
& Louis) Annointed ones and truely different
Whom orgy doesn t satisfy at all
Who loathe the horizontal argument

(Frank & Louis) It is to such as you that he was sent.

(Michael) I understand the loyalties that insist
You burn a child or shoot a president
Or tattoo numbers on a woman s wrist
I know the sorrow of the good idealist.

It is to such as you that I was sent
To speak directly to your deepest shame
And light the fires of experiment
And burn all hesitation in the flame --
I claim you now, I claim you in the name
Of that which you have never done before
And having done it never be the same.
The victim shall be smitten on his sore.
The haughty one shall have a visitor.

(Michael, Frank We heard that drummer, do not think we missed
& Louis) Your subtle derivation from the beat

(Michael) Which I established with an iron fist
A thousand years ago, a small deceit
To be enlarged until you have complete
Control of the mood and the atmosphere --
Your crooked time endangering my defeat --
Now all your instruments must disappear
And on your traitor s face pursue your
dark career!

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
  • Anthem
  • Hallelujah
  • Here it is
  • Avalanche
  • Always
  • Sisters of mercy
  • Master song
  • Minute prologue
  • I came so far for beauty
  • The old revolution
  • Losowe utwory

    Life sentence

    You used to be a partner in crime
    Now you say you ain t go the time
    Gotta get serious, gotta plan
    Gotta pass those entrance exams

    Oh my God
    It s senior year
    All you care about is your career

    So much more

    It s another cold London night
    I wrap his head around my shoulders tight
    Please excuse me
    Seems there s someone at my door
    I wouldn t leave
    But the need is so much more
    So much more
    So much more

    It s another cold London day
    And I m always walking down the escalator
    The up way
    Please excuse me
    I...

    You are my solid ground

    When you re lying tenderly beside me,
    And I feel your breath so soft against my cheek,
    All my fears just disappear in darkness,
    And I know for sure,
    I could never leave,
    You are the strength that I ve found to see,
    You life me up when I m down-loving me,
    When I never...

    Bo ja mam Ciebie

    Uuuuuuu

    Życie pędzi do
    przodu bez postoju
    na sen zostawiając
    marzenia w morzu
    gorzkich łez niema
    czasu na miłość
    zawsze musisz gdzieś
    biec ludzkie cienie
    bez twarzy jak okręty
    we mgle.
    W ciągłym lenku z
    dnia na dzień....

    Oye oye

    Son tus ojos que me dan calor
    pierdo mi mente y mi pasion
    t estoy mirando y cada vez
    veo que esto es mas amor

    escucha este sonido
    te llevara hasta el final
    amor amor de mis suenos
    despierta me con tu realidad

    oye, oye mi cuerpo mueve

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