Lyrics Master Song.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: wakjreyc]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Songs Of Leonard Cohen]
[ti: Master Song]
[length: 05:54]
[00:10.20]I believe that you heard your master sing
[00:15.03]When I was sick in bed
[00:18.98]I suppose that he told you everything
[00:22.91]That I keep locked away in my head
[00:27.36]Your master took you travelling
[00:31.15]Well, at least that’s what you said
[00:35.36]And now, do you come back to bring
[00:39.22]Your prisoner wine and bread?
[00:46.24]
[00:49.75]You met him at some temple
[00:53.43]Where they take your clothes at the door
[00:57.62]He was just a numberless man in a chair
[01:01.84]Who’d just come back from the war
[01:05.50]And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
[01:09.50]And he hands you the apple core
[01:13.32]Then he touches your lips, now so suddenly bare
[01:17.22]Of all the kisses we put on some time before
[01:23.51]
[01:27.73]And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk
[01:31.59]With a collar of leather and nails
[01:35.48]And he never once made you explain or talk
[01:39.47]About all of the little details
[01:43.25]Such as who had a word and who had a rock
[01:47.10]And who had you through the mails
[01:51.13]Now your love is a secret all over the block
[01:54.94]And it never stops, not even when your master fails
[02:01.19]
[02:05.36]And he took you up in his aeroplane
[02:09.19]Which he flew without any hands
[02:12.88]And you cruised above the ribbons of rain
[02:17.00]That drove the crowd from the stands
[02:20.89]Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane
[02:24.86]And an ape with angel glands
[02:28.74]Erased the final wisps of pain
[02:32.80]With the music of rubber bands
[02:39.10]
[02:43.19]And now, I hear your master sing
[02:46.93]You kneel for him to come
[02:50.70]His body is a golden string
[02:54.86]That your body is hanging from
[02:58.69]His body is a golden string
[03:02.87]My body has grown numb
[03:06.79]Oh, now you hear your master sing
[03:10.34]Your shirt is all undone
[03:17.03]
[03:21.00]And will you kneel beside this bed
[03:24.51]That we polished so long ago
[03:28.79]Before your master chose instead
[03:32.21]To make my bed of snow?
[03:36.62]Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
[03:40.20]And you’re speaking far too low
[03:44.23]No, I can’t make out what your master said
[03:48.35]Before he made you go
[03:54.85]
[03:58.60]Then I think you’re playing far too rough
[04:02.12]For a lady who’s been to the moon
[04:06.32]I’ve lain by this window long enough
[04:10.15]To get used to an empty room
[04:14.02]And your love is some dust in an old man’s cough
[04:18.46]Who is tapping his foot to a tune
[04:22.20]And your thighs are a ruin, you want too much
[04:26.29]Let’s say you came back some time too soon
[04:33.21]
[04:36.85]I loved your master perfectly
[04:40.88]I taught him all that he knew
[04:44.69]He was starving in some deep mystery
[04:48.55]Like a man who is sure what is true
[04:52.54]And I sent you to him with my guarantee
[04:56.54]I could teach him something new
[05:00.44]And I taught him how you would long for me
[05:05.24]No matter what he said, no matter what you’d do
[05:11.20]
[05:15.18]I believe that you heard your master sing
[05:18.64]While I was sick in bed
[05:22.61]I’m sure that he told you everything
[05:26.87]I must keep locked away in my head
[05:30.92]Your master took you travelling
[05:34.92]Well, at least that’s what you said
[05:38.74]And now, do you come back to bring
[05:42.96]Your prisoner wine and bread?
[05:48.07]Year of Release: 1967