Lyrics Take This Longing.lrc Leonard Cohen
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[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: New Skin for the Old Ceremony]
[ti: Take This Longing]
[length: 04:11]
[00:05.74]Many men have loved the bells
[00:09.99]You fastened to the rein
[00:13.91]
[00:15.93]And everyone who wanted you
[00:20.55]They found what they will always want again
[00:27.39]Your beauty lost to you yourself
[00:31.66]Just as it was lost to them
[00:35.94]Oh take this longing from my tongue
[00:41.33]Whatever useless things these hands have done
[00:46.39]Let me see your beauty broken down
[00:52.06]Like you would do
[00:57.05]For one you love
[01:00.55]
[01:03.07]Your body like a searchlight
[01:08.03]My poverty revealed
[01:13.01]I would like to try your charity
[01:16.72]Until you cry, “Now you must try my greed”
[01:25.44]And everything depends upon
[01:29.07]How near you sleep to me
[01:33.72]Just take this longing from my tongue
[01:39.02]All the lonely things my hands have done
[01:44.04]Let me see your beauty broken down
[01:49.72]Like you would do
[01:54.48]For one your love
[01:57.80]
[02:00.72]Hungry as an archway
[02:06.04]Through which the troops have passed
[02:10.74]I stand in ruins behind you
[02:14.09]With your winter clothes
[02:17.95]Your broken sandal straps
[02:23.10]I love to see you naked over there
[02:27.35]Especially from the back
[02:31.39]Oh take this longing from my tongue
[02:36.68]All the useless things my hands have done
[02:41.09]Untie for me your hired blue gown
[02:47.08]Like you would do
[02:52.01]For one that you love
[02:56.73]You’re faithful to the better man
[03:00.77]
[03:02.77]I’m afraid that he left
[03:08.16]So let me judge your love affair
[03:11.77]In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
[03:19.81]I’ll even wear these old laurel leaves
[03:23.05]That he’s shaken from his head
[03:27.42]Just take this longing from my tongue
[03:32.78]All the useless things my hands have done
[03:36.72]Let me see your beauty broken down
[03:41.39]
[03:43.46]Like you would do
[03:47.79]For one you love
[03:52.83]Like you would do
[03:57.19]For one you love
[03:58.51]Year of Release: 1974