Lyrics Humbled In Love.lrc Leonard Cohen
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[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Recent Songs]
[ti: Humbled in Love]
[length: 05:15]
[00:24.31]Do you remember all of those pledges
[00:29.77]That we pledged in the passionate night?
[00:36.01]Ah, they’re soiled now, they’re torn at the edges
[00:45.02]Like moths on a still yellow light
[00:53.94]No penance serves to renew them
[01:00.34]No massive transfusions of trust
[01:07.51]Why not even revenge can undo them?
[01:15.55]So twisted these vows and so crushed
[01:20.68]And you say you’ve been humbled in love
[01:25.63]Cut down in your love
[01:29.26]Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
[01:36.35]Ah, but why so bitterly turn from the one
[01:44.49]Who kneels there as deeply as thee
[01:50.26]
[01:56.22]Children have taken these pledges
[02:02.66]They have ferried them out of the past
[02:09.87]Oh, beyond all the graves and the hedges
[02:17.95]Where love must go hiding at last
[02:25.16]And here where there is no description
[02:32.30]Oh, here in the moment at hand
[02:39.57]No sinner need rise up forgiven
[02:46.73]No victim need limp to the stand
[02:52.70]You say you’ve been humbled in love
[02:57.67]Cut down in your love
[03:01.15]Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
[03:08.13]Ah, but why so bitterly turn from the one
[03:15.80]Who kneels there as deeply as thee
[03:22.29]
[03:27.75]And look dear heart, look at the virgin
[03:33.31]Look how she welcomes him into her gown
[03:40.77]Yes, and mark how the stranger’s cold armour
[03:48.11]Dissolves like a star falling down
[03:57.16]Why trade this vision for desire
[04:04.08]When you may have them both
[04:09.79]You will never see a man this naked
[04:16.97]I will never hold a woman this close
[04:22.40]And you say you’ve been humbled in love
[04:27.74]Cut down in your love
[04:30.92]Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
[04:38.32]Ah, but why so bitterly turn from the one
[04:45.99]Who kneels there as deeply as thee
[04:52.00]Year of Release: 1979