Lyrics Dress Rehearsal Rag.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: ykawniky]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Songs Of Love And Hate]
[ti: Dress Rehearsal Rag]
[length: 06:12]
[00:02.54]It’s called “Dress rehearsal rag”
[00:13.25]I got up sometime in the afternoon and I didn’t feel like much
[00:20.52]I said to myself, “Where are you golden boy
[00:23.67]Where’s your famous golden touch?”
[00:28.28]I thought you knew where all of the elephants lie down
[00:35.91]I thought you were the crown prince of all the wheels in Ivory Town
[00:44.25]Look at your body now, there’s nothing much to save
[00:51.51]And a bitter voice in the mirror cries, “Hey prince, you need a shave”
[00:59.37]Now if you can manage to get your trembling fingers to behave
[01:05.67]Why don’t you try unwrapping a stainless steel razor blade?
[01:12.67]That’s right, it’s come to this
[01:16.97]Yes, it’s come to this
[01:21.64]And wasn’t it a long way down?
[01:29.30]And wasn’t it a strange way down?
[01:37.74]There’s no hot water and the cold is running thin
[01:44.71]Well, what do you expect from the kind of places that you’ve been living in?
[01:51.63]Don’t drink from that cup, it’s all caked and cracked along the rim
[01:58.73]That’s not the electric light, my friend, that is your vision that is dim
[02:08.04]Cover up your face with soap there, now you’re Santa Claus
[02:14.75]And you’ve got a gift for anyone who will give you his applause
[02:22.31]I thought that you were a racing man, but you couldn’t take the pace
[02:29.07]That’s a funeral in the mirror and it’s stopping at your face
[02:35.68]That’s right, it’s come to this
[02:40.07]Yes, it’s come to this
[02:44.09]And wasn’t it a long way down?
[02:52.07]And wasn’t it a strange way down?
[03:00.76]Once there was a path and a girl with chestnut hair
[03:07.09]And you passed the summers picking all of the berries that grew there
[03:14.44]There were times she was a woman, there were times she was a child
[03:22.02]As you held her in the shadows where the raspberries grow wild
[03:29.33]And you climbed on the highest mountains and you sang about the view
[03:38.29]And everywhere that you wandered love went along with you
[03:46.27]That’s a hard one to remember, it makes you clench your fist
[03:52.95]And then the veins stand out like highways, all along your wrist
[03:59.97]And then you know it’s come to this
[04:04.15]Yes, it’s come to this
[04:07.84]And wasn’t it a long way down?
[04:16.11]And wasn’t it a strange way down?
[04:25.16]You can still find a job, go out and talk to a friend
[04:31.51]On the back of every magazine there are those coupons you can send
[04:38.58]Why don’t you join the Rosicrucians, they will give you back your hope
[04:46.24]You can find your love with diagrams in a plain brown envelope
[04:53.88]But you’ve used up all your coupons, yes, except the one that seems
[05:01.42]To be tattooed on to your arm along with several thousand dreams
[05:10.44]Now Santa Claus comes forward, that’s a razor in his mit
[05:16.42]And he puts on his dark glasses and he shows you where to hit
[05:23.42]And then the cameras pan
[05:28.37]The stand in stunt man’s dress rehearsal rag
[05:39.06]It’s the dress rehearsal rag
[06:02.15]Year of Release: 1971