Lyrics Death Of A Ladies’ Man.lrc LEONARD COHEN
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[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Death Of A Ladies’ Man]
[ti: Death of a Ladies’ Man]
[length: 09:19]
[00:38.54]Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
[00:46.58]”I never even knew how much I wanted you”, she said
[00:54.85]His muscles, they were numbered, and his style was obsolete
[01:02.49]”Oh bay, I have come too late”
[01:06.72]She knelt beside his feet
[01:17.08]”I’ll never see a face like yours in years of men to come”
[01:24.63]”I’ll never see such arms again in wrestling or love”
[01:33.08]And all his virtues burning in the smokey holocaust
[01:41.25]She took unto herself most everything her lover lost
[02:01.14]Now the master of this landscape, he was standing at the view
[02:08.97]With a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to
[02:16.57]She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood
[02:23.65]She said, “I’ll make a place between my legs, I’ll teach you solitude”
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[02:47.26]He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room
[02:54.26]He promised her protection for the issue of her womb
[03:02.35]She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
[03:10.56]She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon
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[04:05.23]She took his much admired oriental frame of mind
[04:12.19]And the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind
[04:19.33]She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine
[04:28.06]”This mental space is occupied and everything is mine”
[04:44.65]He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track
[04:51.18]She said, “The art of longing’s over and it’s never coming back”
[04:59.33]She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance
[05:07.42]She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache
[05:15.64]The last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get
[05:36.60]A woman’s education, but he’s not a woman yet
[05:43.88]And the last time that I saw her she was living with a boy
[05:52.97]Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy
[06:10.73]So the great affair is over, but whoever would have guessed
[06:20.83]It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
[06:31.72]It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star
[06:41.71]I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far
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[07:25.99]It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star
[07:37.42]I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far
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[08:32.93]It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star
[08:43.47]I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far
[09:02.46]Year of Release: 1977