Lyrics Samson in New Orleans.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshjvlay]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Popular Problems]
[ti: Samson in New Orleans]
[length: 04:39]
[00:32.86]You said that you were with me
[00:37.42]You said you were my friend
[00:41.17]Did you really love the city
[00:45.22]Or did you just pretend?
[00:50.06]You said you loved her secrets
[00:53.90]And her freedoms hid away
[00:58.07]”She was better than America”
[01:01.93]That’s what I heard you say
[01:07.36]You said, “How could this happen?”
[01:10.97]You said, “How can this be
[01:15.41]The remnant of dishonor
[01:19.19]On the bridge of misery?”
[01:23.63]And we, who cried for mercy
[01:27.72]From the bottom of the pit
[01:31.77]Was our prayer so damn unworthy
[01:35.62]The sun rejected it?
[01:40.83]So gather up the killer
[01:44.64]Get everyone in town
[01:49.23]Standing by those pillars
[01:52.99]That may take this temple down
[01:57.29]The king so kind and solemn
[02:01.49]He wears a bloody crown
[02:05.66]So stand me by that column
[02:09.76]That may take this temple down
[02:50.23]You said, “How could this happen?”
[02:54.44]You said, “How can this be?
[02:58.54]The chains are gone from heaven
[03:02.52]The storms are wild and free”
[03:06.87]There’s other ways to answer
[03:10.38]That suddenly is true
[03:14.60]Me, I’m blind with death and anger
[03:19.54]And that’s no place for you
[03:23.40]There’s a woman in the window
[03:27.97]There’s a bed in tinsel town
[03:32.26]I’ll write you when it’s over
[03:35.87]Let me take this temple down
[03:40.67]You said you loved her secrets
[03:44.13]Her freedoms hid away
[03:48.70]”She was better than America”
[03:53.43]That’s what I heard her say
[04:00.70]Year of Release: 2014