Lyrics Take This Waltz.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshjpawu]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: I’m Your Man]
[ti: Take This Waltz]
[length: 05:59]
[00:03.40]Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women
[00:09.17]There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry
[00:14.55]There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows
[00:20.02]There’s a tree where the doves go to die
[00:24.30]There’s a piece that was torn from the morning
[00:29.45]And it hangs in the gallery of frost
[00:34.72]Ay, ay-ay-ay
[00:39.47]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[00:44.31]Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
[00:49.02]
[00:54.76]Oh, I want you, I want you, I want you
[00:59.38]On a chair with a dead magazine
[01:04.69]In the cave at the tip of the lily
[01:09.47]In some hallway where love’s never been
[01:14.70]On a bed where the moon has been sweating
[01:20.03]In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
[01:25.81]Ay, ay-ay-ay
[01:30.01]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[01:34.88]Take its broken waist in your hand
[01:40.10]
[01:45.40]This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
[01:50.55]With its very own breath of brandy and death
[01:55.85]Dragging its tail in the sea
[02:03.05]There’s a concert hall in Vienna
[02:08.35]Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
[02:13.28]There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking
[02:18.52]They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
[02:23.43]Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
[02:28.84]With a garland of freshly cut tears?
[02:34.08]Ay, ay-ay-ay
[02:38.93]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[02:43.71]Take this waltz, it’s been dying for years
[02:47.92]
[02:53.82]There’s an attic where children are playing
[02:59.33]Where I’ve got to lie down with you soon
[03:04.08]In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
[03:09.37]In the mist of some sweet afternoon
[03:14.25]And I’ll see what you’ve chained to your sorrow
[03:19.19]All your sheep and your lilies of snow
[03:24.43]Ay, ay-ay-ay
[03:29.37]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[03:33.66]With it, I’ll never forget you, you know
[03:39.12]
[03:43.15]This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
[03:49.93]With its very own breath of brandy and death
[03:55.25]Dragging its tail in the sea
[03:59.86]
[04:02.44]And I’ll dance with you in Vienna
[04:07.30]I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise
[04:12.76]The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
[04:17.67]My mouth on the dew of your thighs
[04:22.91]And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook
[04:27.68]With the photographs there, and the moss
[04:32.55]And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty
[04:37.81]My cheap violin and my cross
[04:42.84]And you’ll carry me down on your dancing
[04:47.52]To the pools that you lift on your wrist
[04:53.07]Oh my love, oh my love
[04:57.89]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[05:02.99]It’s yours now, it’s all that there is
[05:07.59]Year of Release: 1988