Leonard Cohen - Field Commander Cohen (Audio)

source: LeonardCohenVEVO     2015年5月12日
(C) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment.
http://www.vevo.com/watch/CAC231500014　

(lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/fieldcommander...)
Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy.
Wounded in the line of duty,
parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties,
urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles.
Leave it all and like a man,
come back to nothing special,
such as waiting rooms and ticket lines,
silver bullet suicides,
and messianic ocean tides,
and racial roller-coaster rides
and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.
I know you need your sleep now,
I know your life's been hard.
But many men are falling,
where you promised to stand guard.

I never asked but I heard you cast your lot along with the poor.
But then I overheard your prayer,
that you be this and nothing more
than just some grateful faithful woman's favourite singing millionaire,
the patron Saint of envy and the grocer of despair,
working for the Yankee Dollar.

I know you need your sleep now ...

Ah, lover come and lie with me, if my lover is who you are,
and be your sweetest self awhile until I ask for more, my child.
Then let the other selves be wrong, yeah, let them manifest and come
till every taste is on the tongue,
till love is pierced and love is hung,
and every kind of freedom done, then oh,
oh my love, oh my love, oh my love,

oh my love, oh my love, oh my love.

Leonard Cohen - Got a Little Secret (Audio)

source: LeonardCohenVEVO     2015年5月12日
Music video by Leonard Cohen performing Got a Little Secret. (C) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment. http://www.vevo.com/watch/CAC231500018

(lyrics: http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/leonard_cohen/got_a_little_...)
I've got a little secret
You've got to promise not to tell
I said I've got a little secret
If you promise not to tell
I made a date in Heaven, oh Lord
But I've been keepin' it in Hell

I'd like to love you baby
But it don't seem right
I'd like to love you baby
It just don't seem right
You see, I've got this full length mirror
And it ain't a pretty sight

I've got a little secret
You've got to promise not to tell
I've got a little secret
If you promise not to tell
I made a date in Heaven
But I've been keepin' it in Hell

[Electric guitar]

I'd like to hold you baby
But my arms are old and weak
I would, I'd like to hold you baby
But my arms are old and weak
I was listenin' to your story
But I guess I fell asleep

I've got a little secret
If you promise not to tell
I said, I've got a little secret
You've got to promise not to tell
You see, I made a date in Heaven
But I've been keepin' it in Hell

[Organ]

It's kinda chilly in your kitchen
It must be ten below
It's kinda chilly in your kitchen
Must be ten below
I bought a ticket for the tropics
I must have lost it in the snow

I've got a little secret
If you promise not to tell
I've got a little secret
If you promise not to tell

You see, I made a date in Heaven
But I've been keepin' it in Hell

Leonard Cohen - Light as the Breeze (Audio)

source: LeonardCohenVEVO     2015年5月12日
Music video by Leonard Cohen performing Light as the Breeze. (C) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment. http://www.vevo.com/watch/CAC231500015

(lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/lightasthebreeze.html)
She stands before you naked
you can see it, you can taste it,
and she comes to you light as the breeze.
Now you can drink it or you can nurse it,
it don't matter how you worship
as long as you're
down on your knees.
So I knelt there at the delta,
at the alpha and the omega,
at the cradle of the river and the seas.
And like a blessing come from heaven
for something like a second
I was healed and my heart
was at ease.

O baby I waited
so long for your kiss
for something to happen,
oh something like this.

And you're weak and you're harmless
and you're sleeping in your harness
and the wind going wild
in the trees,
and it ain't exactly prison
but you'll never be forgiven
for whatever you've done
with the keys.

O baby I waited ...

It's dark now and it's snowing
O my love I must be going,
The river has started to freeze.
And I'm sick of pretending
I'm broken from bending
I've lived too long on my knees.

Then she dances so graceful
and your heart's hard and hateful
and she's naked
but that's just a tease.
And you turn in disgust
from your hatred and from your love
and comes to you
light as the breeze.

O baby I waited ...

There's blood on every bracelet
you can see it, you can taste it,
and it's Please baby
please baby please.
And she says, Drink deeply, pilgrim
but don't forget there's still a woman
beneath this
resplendent chemise.

So I knelt there at the delta,
at the alpha and the omega,
I knelt there like one who believes.
And the blessings come from heaven
and for something like a second
I'm cured and my heart
is at ease

Leonard Cohen - Night Comes On (Audio)

source: LeonardCohenVEVO      2015年5月12日
Music video by Leonard Cohen performing Night Comes On. (C) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment. http://www.vevo.com/watch/CAC231500017

(lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/thenightcomeson.html)
I went down to the place
Where I knew she lay waiting
Under the marble and the snow
I said, Mother I'm frightened
The thunder and the lightning
I'll never come through this alone
She said, I'll be with you
My shawl wrapped around you
My hand on your head when you go
And the night came on
It was very calm
I wanted the night to go on and on
But she said, Go back to the World
We were fighting in Egypt
When they signed this agreement
That nobody else had to die
There was this terrible sound
And my father went down
With a terrible wound in his side
He said, Try to go on
Take my books, take my gun
Remember, my son, how they lied
And the night comes on
It's very calm
I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong
But you don't want to lie, not to the young

We were locked in this kitchen
I took to religion
And I wondered how long she would stay
I needed so much
To have nothing to touch
I've always been greedy that way
But my son and my daughter
Climbed out of the water
Crying, Papa, you promised to play
And they lead me away
To the great surprise
It's Papa, don't peek, Papa, cover your eyes
And they hide, they hide in the World

Now I look for her always
I'm lost in this calling
I'm tied to the threads of some prayer
Saying, When will she summon me
When will she come to me
What must I do to prepare
When she bends to my longing
Like a willow, like a fountain
She stands in the luminous air
And the night comes on
And it's very calm
I lie in her arms and says, When I'm gone
I'll be yours, yours for a song

Now the crickets are singing
The vesper bells ringing
The cat's curled asleep in his chair
I'll go down to Bill's Bar
I can make it that far
And I'll see if my friends are still there
Yes, and here's to the few
Who forgive what you do
And the fewer who don't even care
And the night comes on
It's very calm
I want to cross over, I want to go home
But she says, Go back, go back to the World

Leonard Cohen - Stages (Audio)

source: LeonardCohenVEVO     2015年5月12日
Music video by Leonard Cohen performing Stages. (C) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment. http://www.vevo.com/watch/CAC231500019