Leave what you can't Control!


Nog
een Ouwe
Tophit dan voor
de Siesta:

Oh,
the Sisters of Mercy
they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me
when I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort
and later they brought me their song
Oh, I hope
you run into them
You who've been trav'ling
so long

Yes,
you who must leave ev'rything
that you cannot control
It begins with your fam'ly
but soon it comes round
to your soul
Well,
I've been
where you're hanging
I think I can see
how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy
Your loneliness
says that you've
sinned

They
lay down
beside me: I
made my confession to them
They touched both my eyes
and I touched the dew
on their hem
If life is a leaf
that the seasons
tear off and
condemn
They
will bind you
with love
That is graceful
and green as
a stem

When
I left they
were sleeping
I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights,
you can read their address
by the moon
And you won't make me jealous
if I hear they sweetened
your night
We weren't
lovers like that
And besides
it would still be
alright


@'68
Leonard Cohen
on Stranger Music
1935
Canadees
folksinger/songwriter & auteur
"Songs
from a room"
"Songs of love&hate"

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BIRD
ON THE WIRE

LIKE
A BIRD
ON THE WIRE
A DRUNK IN A
MIDNIGHT CHOIR
I HAVE TRIED IN MY WAY
TO BE FREE

LIKE
A WORM
ON A HOOK
A KNIGHT FROM SOME
OLDFASHIONED BOOK
I HAVE SAVED
ALL MY RIBBONS
FOR THEE

if I
have been unkind
I hope
that you can just
let it go by
if I have been untrue
I hope you know
it was never
to you

Like
a baby stillborn
a beast with his horn
I have torn
everyone who reached out for me
but I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I wil make it all
up to thee

I saw a beggar
leaning on his wooden crutch
he said to me:
"You must not ask for so much!".
And a pretty woman
leaning in her darkened door,
Shi cried to me:
"Hey,
why not ask
for more?"

&

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 passed all concern
I asked her to hold me, Isaid: "Lady Shi, please unfold me?"
But Shi scorned me &told me
I was dead & I
would never
return
...

Well,
I argued
all night like
so many have before
Saying: "Whatever you give me I seem to need much more!"
Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor
She said: "Don't try to use me or slyly refuse me
Just win me or lose me,
it is this that the
darkness is
for!"

I cried:
"Oh, Lady
Shi-NaYne,
I fear that you grow old
Stars eat your body & the wind makes you cold!"
"If we cry now," Shi said, "It will just be ignored!"
So I walked thru the morning, the sweet early morning
I could hear my lady calling:
"You've won me,
you've won me,
my lord!"

&

PLEASE
TAKE THIS LONGING
FROM MY
HEART

And who
by fire, who by water
Who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
Who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
Who in your merry, merry month of May, who by very slow decay
and who shall I say
is calling?

And who
in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate
who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,
Who by avalanche, who by powder,
who for his greed, who for his hunger
and who shall I say
is calling?

And
who by
brave assent, who
by accident
who in solitude,
who in this mirror
Who by his Lady's command,
who by his own hand {or band}
who in mortal chains,
who in power
and who
shall I say is
calling?



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