Leonard Norman Cohen, CC Order of Canada , GOQ National Order of Quebec (born September 21, 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, ***uality and interpersonal relationships. Famously reclusive, having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist Zen... [read more] - The Land Of Plenty
Don't really know who sent meTo raise my voice and say:May the lights in The Land of PlentyShine on the truth some day.I don't know why I come here,Knowing as I do,What you really think of me,What I really think of...
- Always
(Oh friends, .. don't matter if you're a man or a woman. If you're in lovewith somebody, these are the words that you got to learn to say. Nowlisten carefully. Here it comes...)I'll be loving you alwayswith a love...
- Alexandra Leaving
Suddenly the night has grown colder.The god of love preparing to depart.Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,They slip between the sentries of the heart.Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,They gain the light, they...
- Suzanne
Suzanne takes you down to her place by the riverYou can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night foreverAnd you know that she's half crazy and that's why you want to be thereAnd she feeds you tea and oranges that...
- That Don't Make It Junk
I fought against the bottle,But I had to do it drunk Took my diamond to the pawnshop But that don't make it junk.I know that I'm forgiven,But I don't know how I knowI don't trust my inner feelings Inner feelings...
- Democracy
It's coming through a hole in the air,from those nights in Tiananmen Square.It's coming from the feelthat this ain't exactly real,or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.From the wars against disorder,from the sirens...
- Love Itself
The light came through the window,Straight from the sun above,And so inside my little roomThere plunged the rays of Love.In streams of light I clearly sawThe dust you seldom see,Out of which the Nameless makesA Name...
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
The ponies run, the girls are young,The odds are there to beat.You win a while, and then it's done Your little winning streak.And summoned now to dealWith your invincible defeat,You live your life as if it's real,A...
- Be For Real
Are you back in my life to stayOr is it just for todayOh that you're gonna need me?If it's a thrill you're looking forHoney, I'm flexible. Oh, yeah.Just be for real won't you, BabyBe for real oh, BabyYou see I, I...
- By The Rivers Dark
By the rivers darkI wandered on.I lived my lifein Babylon.And I did forgetMy holy song:And I had no strengthIn Babylon.By the rivers darkWhere I could not seeWho was waiting thereWho was hunting me.And he cut my...
- Who By Fire
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...
- Tower Of Song
Well my friends are gone and my hair is greyI ache in the places where I used to playAnd I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming onI'm just paying my rent every dayOh in the Tower of SongI said to Hank Williams: how...
- Closing Time
Ah we're drinking and we're dancingand the band is really happeningand the Johnny Walker wisdom running highAnd my very sweet companionshe's the Angel of Compassionshe's rubbing half the world against her thighAnd...
- Anthem
The birds they sangat the break of dayStart againI heard them sayDon't dwell on whathas passed awayor what is yet to be.Ah the wars they willbe fought againThe holy doveShe will be caught againbought and soldand...
- I Can't Forget
I stumbled out of bedI got ready for the struggleI smoked a cigaretteAnd I tightened up my gutI said this can't be meMust be my doubleAnd I can't forget, I can't forgetI can't forget but I don't remember whatI'm...
- Boogie Street
O Crown of Light, O Darkened One,I never thought we'd meet.You kiss my lips, and then it's done:I'm back on Boogie Street.A sip of wine, a cigarette,And then it's time to go.I tidied up the kitchenette;I tuned the old...
- You Have Loved Enough
I said I'd be your lover.You laughed at what I said.I lost my job forever.I was counted with the dead.I swept the marble chambers,But you sent me down below.You kept me from believingUntil you let me know:That I am...
- Woke Up This Morning
I'm gonna take you downDeep down, to the front lineYou woke up this morningGot yourself a gun,Mama always said youd beThe Chosen One.She said: Youre one in a millionYouve got to burn to shine,But you were born...
- In My Secret Life
I saw you this morning.You were moving so fast.Can't seem to loosen my gripOn the past.And I miss you so much.There's no one in sight.And we're still making loveIn My Secret Life.I smile when I'm angry.I cheat and I...
- First We Take Manhatten
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredomFor trying to change the system from withinI'm coming now, I'm coming to reward themFirst we take Manhattan, then we take BerlinI'm guided by a signal in the heavensI'm...
- Light As The Breeze
She stands before you ***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 worshipas long as you'redown on your knees.So I...
- Jazz Police
Can you tell me why the bells are ringing?Nothing's happened in a million yearsI've been sitting here since Wednesday morningWednesday morning can't believe my earsJazz police are looking through my foldersJazz police...
- Here It Is
Here is your crownAnd your seal and rings;And here is your loveFor all things.Here is your cart,And your cardboard and piss;And here is your loveFor all of this.May everyone live,And may everyone die.Hello, my...
- Ain't No Cure For Love
I loved you for a long, long timeI know this love is realIt don't matter how it all went wrongThat don't change the way I feelAnd I can't believe that time'sGonna heal this wound I'm speaking ofThere ain't no...
- Take This Longing
Leonard Cohen - Take This LongingMany men have loved the bellsyou fastened to the rein,and everyone who wanted youthey found what they will always want again.Your beauty lost to you yourselfjust as it was lost to...
- Sisters Of Mercy
Leonard Cohen - Sisters Of MercyOh 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 this...
- Bird On The Wire
Leonard Cohen - Bird On The WireLike a bird on the wire,like a drunk in a midnight choirI have tried in my way to be free.Like a worm on a hook,like a knight from some old fashioned bookI have saved all my ribbons for...
- The Partisan
Leonard Cohen - The PartisanThe PartisanWhen they poured across the borderI was cautioned to surrender,This i could not do;I took my gun and vanished.I have changed my name so often,I've lost my wife and childrenBut i...
- So Long, Marianne
Leonard Cohen - So Long, MarianneCome over to the window, my little darling,I'd like to try to read your palm.I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boybefore I let you take me home.Now so long, Marianne, it's time...
- Chelsea Hotel N° 2
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel N° 2I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,you were talking so brave and so sweet,giving me head on the unmade bed,while the limousines wait in the street.Those were the reasons and...
- Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way To Say GoodbyeI 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...
- Famous Blue Raincoat
It's four in the morning, the end of DecemberI'm writing you now just to see if you're betterNew York is cold, but I like where I'm livingThere's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.I hear that you're...
- Lady Midnight
Leonard Cohen - Lady MidnightI 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 past all concern;I asked her to hold me, I said, "Lady, unfold...
- Last Year's Man
Leonard Cohen - Last Year's ManThe rain falls down on last year's man,that's a jew's harp on the table,that's a crayon in his hand.And the corners of the blueprint are ruined since they rolledfar past the stems of...
- If It Be Your Will
If it be your will That I speak no more And my voice be still As it was before I will speak no more I shall abide until I am spoken for If it be your will If it be your will That a voice be true From this broken hill...
- Night Comes On
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...
- The Captain
Now the Captain called me to his bed He fumbled for my hand "Take these silver bars," he said "I'm giving you command." "Command of what, there's no one here There's only you and me -- All the rest are dead or in...
- Coming Back To You
maybe i'm still hurting i can't turn the other cheek but you know that i still love you it's just that i can't speak i looked for you in everyone and they called me on that too i lived alone but i was only coming back...
- Go No More A-Roving
[Dedicated to Irving Layton]So we'll go no more a-rovingSo 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 outwears the breast,And...
- The Letters
You never liked to getThe letters that I sent.But now you've got the gistOf what my letters meant.You're reading them again,The ones you didn't burn.You press them to your lips,My pages of concern.I said there'd been...
- Because Of
Because of a few songsWherein I spoke of their mystery,Women have beenExceptionally kindto my old age.They make a secret placeIn their busy livesAnd they take me there.They become ***In their different waysand they...
- Morning Glory
No words this time? No words. No, there are times when nothing can be done. Not this time. Is it censorship? Is it censorship? No, it's evaporation. No, it's evaporation. Is this leading somewhere? Yes. We're going...
- The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien Errant)
Un Canadien Errant (A wandering Canadian,)Banni de ses foyers, (banned from his hearths,)Parcourait en pleurant (travelled while crying)Des pays etrangers. (in foreign lands.)Parcourait en pleurant (travelled while...
- The Window
Why do you stand by the windowAbandoned to beauty and prideThe thorn of the night in your bosomThe spear of the age in your sideLost in the rages of fragranceLost in the rags of remorseLost in the waves of a...
- The Guests
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 why the wine is flowing Oh love I need you I need you...
- The Gypsy's Wife
And where, where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight?I've heard all the wild reports, they can't be rightBut whose head is this she's dancing with on the threshing floor?Whose darkness deepens in her arms just a little...
- Take This Waltz
Now in Vienna there are ten pretty womenThere's a shoulder where Death comes to cryThere's a lobby with nine hundred windowsThere's a tree where the doves go to dieThere's a piece that was torn from the morning,And it...
- Everybody Knows
Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows that the war is overEverybody knows the good guys lostEverybody knows the fight was fixedThe poor stay poor, the rich...
- First We Take Manhattan
Leonard Cohen - First We Take ManhattanThey sentenced me to twenty years of boredomFor trying to change the system from withinI'm coming now, I'm coming to reward themFirst we take Manhattan, then we take BerlinI'm...
- I'm Your Man
If you want a lover,I'll do anything you ask me toAnd if you want another kind of love,I'll wear a mask for youIf you want a partner, take my handOr if you want to strike me down in anger,Here I standI'm your manIf...
- Stranger Song
It's true that all the men you knew were dealerswho said they were through with dealingEvery time you gave them shelterI know that kind of manIt's hard to hold the hand of anyonewho is reaching for the sky just to...
- Winter Lady
Trav'ling lady, stay awhile until the night is over. I'm just a station on your way, I know I'm not your lover. Well I lived with a child of snow when I was a soldier, and I fought every man for her until the nights...
- Never Any Good
Leonard Cohen - Never Any GoodI was never any good at loving youI was never any good at comingthrough for youYou're going to feel much betterWhen you cut me loose foreverI was never any goodNever any goodI was never...
- Dance Me To The End Of Love
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me To The End Of LoveDance me to your beauty with a burning violinDance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely inLift me like an olive branch and be my homeward doveDance me to the end of...
- The Future
Leonard Cohen - The FutureGive me back my broken nightmy mirrored room, my secret lifeit's lonely here,there's no one left to tortureGive me absolute controlover every living soulAnd lie beside me, baby,that's an...
- Love Calls You By Your Name
You thought that it could never happenTo 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 and your open...
- Dress Rehearsal Rag
Four o'clock in the afternoon and I didn't feel like very much. I said to myself, "Where are you golden boy, where is your famous golden touch?" I thought you knew where all of the elephants lie down, I thought you...
- Joan Of Arc
Now the flames they followed joan of arcAs she came riding through the dark;No moon to keep her armour bright,No man to get her through this very smoky night.She said, Im tired of the war,I want the kind of work I...
- Avalanche
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...
- There Is A War
There is a war between the rich and poor, a war between the man and the woman. There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't. Why don't you come on back to the war, that's...
- Field Commander Cohen
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,...
- Hallelujah
Baby, I've been here before.I know this room, I walked this floor.I used to live alone before I knew you.Yeah, and I've seen your flag on the marble arch,but listen, love, love is not some kind of victory march,it's a...
- Paper Thin Hotel
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 wall I was not...
- True Love Leaves No Traces
As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will Through windows in the dark The children come, the children go Like arrows with no targets Like s***les made of snow...
- Story Of Isaac
the door it opened slowly, my father he came in, i was nine years old. and he stood so tall above me, his blue eyes they were shining and his voice was very cold. he said, "i've had a vision and you know i'm strong...
- Waiting For The Miracle
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, for the...
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