Lyrics Avalanche.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pptgxrst]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Songs of Love and Hate]
[ti: Avalanche]
[length: 05:07]
[00:31.79]I stepped into an avalanche
[00:40.23]It covered up my soul
[00:45.98]When I am not this hunchback that you see
[00:51.35]I sleep beneath the golden hill
[00:57.72]You who wish to conquer pain
[01:01.61]You must learn, learn to serve me well
[01:18.32]You strike my side by accident
[01:23.59]As you go down for your gold
[01:28.67]The cripple here that you clothe and feed
[01:33.75]Is neither starved nor cold
[01:41.24]He does not ask for your company
[01:43.81]Not at the center, the center of the world
[02:03.35]When I am on a pedestal
[02:07.80]You did not raise me there
[02:13.18]Your laws do not compel me
[02:18.46]To kneel grotesque and bare
[02:24.18]I myself am the pedestal
[02:28.34]For this ugly hump at which you stare
[02:47.78]You who wish to conquer pain
[02:52.92]You must learn what makes me kind
[02:58.95]The crumbs of love that you offer me
[03:03.06]They’re the crumbs I’ve left behind
[03:10.31]Your pain is no credential here
[03:14.65]It’s just the shadow, shadow of my wound
[03:27.95]I have begun to long for you
[03:33.13]I who have no greed
[03:39.18]I have begun to ask for you
[03:43.24]I who have no need
[03:49.39]You say you’ve gone away from me
[03:53.02]But I can feel you when you breathe
[04:10.94]Do not dress in those rags for me
[04:15.78]I know you are not poor
[04:21.06]And don’t love me quite so fiercely now
[04:26.03]When you know that you are not sure
[04:30.53]It is your turn, beloved
[04:36.08]It is your flesh that I wear
[04:50.65]Year of Release: 1971