Lyrics Stories of the Street.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshjuiom]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Songs Of Leonard Cohen]
[ti: Stories of the Street]
[length: 04:37]
[00:04.20]The stories of the street are mine
[00:08.63]The Spanish voices laugh
[00:13.67]The Cadillacs go creeping down
[00:17.06]Through the night and the poison gas
[00:21.46]And I lean from my window sill
[00:25.51]In this old hotel I chose
[00:29.74]Yes, one hand on my suicide
[00:34.32]One hand on the rose
[00:39.08]
[00:47.97]I know you’ve heard it’s over now
[00:51.91]And war must surely come
[00:56.85]The cities, they are broke in half
[01:00.38]And the middle men are gone
[01:04.53]But let me ask you one more time
[01:08.79]Oh, children of the dust
[01:12.65]All these hunters who are shrieking now
[01:17.26]Oh, do they speak for us?
[01:22.83]
[01:31.01]And where do all these highways go
[01:35.58]Now that we are free?
[01:39.87]Why are the armies marching still
[01:43.89]That were coming home to me?
[01:48.01]Oh, lady with your legs so fine
[01:52.30]Oh, stranger at your wheel
[01:56.12]You are locked into your suffering
[02:00.59]And your pleasures are the seal
[02:06.10]
[02:14.96]The age of lust is giving birth
[02:19.82]And both the parents ask
[02:24.03]The nurse to tell them fairy tales
[02:27.65]On both sides of the glass
[02:32.40]And now, the infant with his cord
[02:36.01]Is hauled in like a kite
[02:40.04]And one eye filled with blueprints
[02:44.80]One eye filled with night
[02:49.98]
[02:58.54]Oh, come with me, my little one
[03:03.02]We will find that farm
[03:07.77]And grow us grass and apples there
[03:11.41]And keep all the animals warm
[03:15.63]And if by chance I wake at night
[03:19.52]And I ask you who I am
[03:23.93]Oh, take me to the slaughter house
[03:28.01]I will wait there with the lamb
[03:33.82]
[03:42.14]With one hand on a hexagram
[03:45.78]And one hand on a girl
[03:50.60]I balance on a wishing well
[03:55.08]That all men call the world
[03:59.18]We are so small between the stars
[04:03.25]So large against the sky
[04:07.44]And lost among the subway crowds
[04:11.89]I try to catch your eye
[04:14.94]Year of Release: 1967