by Leonard Cohen on album Original Album Classics: Leonard Cohen

I've never seen your eyes so wide I've never seen your appetite quite this occupied Elsewhere is your feast of love I know, where long ago we agreed to keep it light So let's be married once more nigh

by Leonard Cohen on album Original Album Classics: Leonard Cohen

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 still yellow light No penance serves to renew them No mass

by Leonard Cohen on album Original Album Classics: Leonard Cohen

Now 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 rages of fragrance Lost in the rags of remorse Los

by Leonard Cohen on album Original Album Classics: Leonard Cohen

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 going And no one knows where the wine is flowing Oh love, I

by Leonard Cohen on album Original Album Classics: Leonard Cohen

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 he came in I stood there with my ear against the

by Leonard Cohen on album Original Album Classics: Leonard Cohen

I was born in a beauty salon My father was a dresser of hair My mother was a girl you could call on When you called she was always there When you called she was always there When you called she was a

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen 3.0

You thought that it could never happen to all the people that you became, your body lost in legend, the beast so very tame. But here, right here, between the birthmark and the stain, between the ocean

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen 3.0

Now the swan it floated on the English river Ah, the rose of high romance, it opened wide A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer And the judges watched us from the other side I told my moth

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen 3.0

Baby, I've been waiting I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time I waited half my life away There were lots of invitations And I know you sent me some But I was waiting For the miracle, f

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen 3.0

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 real, but it ain't exactly there. From the wars against di

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen 3.0

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 m

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen 3.0

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 going And no one knows where the wine is flowing Oh love, I

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen

Baby, I've been waiting I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time I waited half my life away There were lots of invitations And I know you sent me some But I was waiting For the miracle, f

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen

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 real, but it ain't exactly there. From the wars against di

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen

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 going And no one knows where the wine is flowing Oh love, I

by Leonard Cohen on album The Essential Leonard Cohen

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 m

by Leonard Cohen on album Leonard Cohen: The Collection - 11 Complete Albums

I built my house beside the wood So I could hear you singing And it was sweet and it was good And love was all beginning Fare thee well my nightingale 'Twas long ago I found you Now all your songs of

by Leonard Cohen on album Leonard Cohen: The Collection - 11 Complete Albums

Some people say It's what we deserve For sins against g-d For crimes in the world I wouldn't know I'm just holding the fort Since that day They wounded New York Some people say They hate us of old Our

by Leonard Cohen on album Leonard Cohen: The Collection - 11 Complete Albums

When it all went down And the pain came through I get it now I was there for you Don't ask me how I know it's true I get it now I was there for you I make my plans Like I always do But when I look bac

by Leonard Cohen on album Leonard Cohen: The Collection - 11 Complete Albums

[Dedicated to Irving Layton] So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul