Lyrics Last Year’s Man.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshjbvmg]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Songs Of Love And Hate]
[ti: Last Year’s Man]
[length: 06:00]
[00:01.22]The rain falls down on last year’s man
[00:08.62]That’s a Jew’s harp on the table, that’s a crayon in his hand
[00:18.08]And the corners of the blueprint are ruined since they rolled
[00:25.48]Far past the stems of thumbtacks that still throw shadows on the wood
[00:34.50]And the skylight is like skin for a drum I’ll never mend
[00:43.60]And all the rain falls down, amen, on the works of last year’s man
[01:00.96]I met a lady, she was playing with her soldiers in the dark
[01:13.03]Oh, one by one she had to tell them that her name was Joan of Arc
[01:25.46]I was in that army, yes, I stayed a little while
[01:36.72]I want to thank you, Joan of Arc for treating me so well
[01:48.35]And though I wear a uniform, I was not born to fight
[01:58.45]All these wounded boys you lie beside goodnight, my friends, goodnight
[02:11.98]I came upon a wedding that old families had contrived
[02:24.17]Bethlehem the bridegroom, Babylon the bride
[02:35.06]Great Babylon was naked, oh, she stood there trembling for me
[02:45.47]And Bethlehem inflamed us both like the shy one at some orgy
[02:56.66]And when we fell together all our flesh was like a veil
[03:05.72]That I had to draw aside to see the serpent eat its tail
[03:18.91]Some women wait for Jesus, and some women wait for Cain
[03:30.15]So I hang upon my altar and I hoist my Axe again
[03:40.94]And I take the one who finds me back to where it all began
[03:53.08]When Jesus was the honeymoon and Cain was just the man
[04:00.85]And we read from pleasant Bibles that are bound in blood and skin
[04:12.09]That the wilderness is gathering all its children back again
[04:22.12]The rain falls down on last year’s man
[04:33.80]
[04:36.78]An hour has gone by and he has not moved his hand
[04:46.83]But everything will happen if he only gives the word
[04:56.98]The lovers will rise up and the mountains touch the ground
[05:06.95]But the skylight is like skin for a drum I’ll never mend
[05:17.13]And all the rain falls down, amen, on the works of last year’s man
[05:32.77]Year of Release: 1971