Lyrics Alexandra Leaving.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: doaxyvvy]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Ten New Songs]
[ti: Alexandra Leaving]
[length: 05:26]
[00:01.89]Suddenly the night has grown colder
[00:09.18]The god of love preparing to depart
[00:17.90]Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder
[00:25.59]They slip between the sentries of the heart
[00:33.76]Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure
[00:41.84]They gain the light, they formlessly entwine
[00:51.39]And radiant beyond your widest measure
[00:59.09]They fall among the voices and the wine
[01:07.44]It’s not a trick, your senses all deceiving
[01:16.80]A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust
[01:24.76]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
[01:33.19]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost
[01:40.42]
[01:43.67]Even though she sleeps upon your satin
[01:50.79]Even though she wakes you with a kiss
[01:59.64]Do not say the moment was imagined
[02:07.10]Do not stoop to strategies like this
[02:15.01]As someone long prepared for this to happen
[02:21.55]
[02:23.99]Go firmly to the window. Drink it in
[02:31.31]Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing
[02:40.12]Your first commitments tangible again
[02:47.80]And you who had the honor of her evening
[02:55.78]
[02:57.93]And by that honor had your own restored
[03:06.15]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
[03:15.20]Alexandra leaving with her lord
[03:21.92]Even though she sleeps upon your satin
[03:30.52]Even though she wakes you with a kiss
[03:39.05]Do not say the moment was imagined
[03:47.02]Do not stoop to strategies like this
[03:55.96]As someone long prepared for the occasion
[04:02.78]
[04:05.00]In full command of every plan you wrecked
[04:13.99]Do not choose a coward’s explanation
[04:21.65]That hides behind the cause and the effect
[04:28.88]And you who were bewildered by a meaning
[04:37.19]Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed
[04:45.55]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
[04:53.34]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost
[05:00.09]
[05:02.14]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
[05:09.34]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost
[05:16.75]Year of Release: 2001