Lyrics Happens to the Heart.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshzurai]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Thanks for the Dance]
[ti: Happens to the Heart]
[length: 04:33]
[00:11.24]I was always workin’ steady but I never called it art
[00:16.31]I got my shit together meeting Christ and reading Marx
[00:22.16]It failed my little fire but it spread a dying spark
[00:27.31]Go tell the young Messiah what happens to the heart
[00:35.65]
[00:45.27]There’s a mist of summer kisses where I tried to double park
[00:50.14]The rivalry was viscious, the women were in charge
[00:55.88]It was nothing, it was business, but it left an ugly mark
[01:01.11]I’ve come here to revisit what happens to the heart
[01:09.59]
[01:18.14]I was selling holy trinkets, I was dressing kind of sharp
[01:23.43]I let pussy in the kitchen and a panther in the yard
[01:29.12]In the prison of the gifted I was friendly with the guards
[01:34.07]So I never had to witness what happens to the heart
[01:42.25]
[01:51.67]I shoulda seen it coming, after all I knew the chart
[01:56.35]Just to look at her was trouble, it was trouble from the start
[02:01.71]Sure we played a stunning couple, but I never liked the part
[02:07.88]It ain’t pretty, it ain’t subtle, what happens to the heart
[02:16.37]
[02:24.62]Now the angel’s got a fiddle, the devil’s got a harp
[02:29.40]Every soul is like a minnow, every mind is like a shark
[02:34.94]May have broken every window, but the house
[02:38.92]The house is dark, I care but very little
[02:42.97]What happens to the heart
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[02:57.29]Then I studied with this beggar, he was filthy, he was scarred
[03:02.11]By the claws of many women he had failed to disregard
[03:07.82]No fable here, no lesson, so singing meadowlark
[03:13.63]Just a filthy beggar guessing what happens to the heart
[03:22.04]
[03:30.53]I was always workin’ steady, but I never called it art
[03:35.40]It was just some old convention like the horse before the cart
[03:40.79]I had no trouble betting on the flood against the Ark
[03:45.76]You see, I knew about the ending, what happens to the heart
[03:54.68]
[04:15.07]I was handy with a rifle, my father’s 303
[04:18.45]I fought for something final, not the right to disagree
[04:24.27]Year of Release: 2019