Lyrics Take This Waltz (Paris Version).lrc Leonard Cohen
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[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: The Essential Leonard Cohen]
[ti: Take This Waltz (Paris Version)]
[length: 05:58]
[00:03.90]Now in Vienna, there’s ten pretty women
[00:09.72]There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry
[00:14.82]There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows
[00:19.83]There’s a tree where the doves go to die
[00:24.99]There’s a piece that was torn from the morning
[00:30.08]And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
[00:35.37]Ay, ay, ay, ay
[00:39.75]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[00:44.60]Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
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[00:54.93]Oh, I want you, I want you, I want you
[01:00.44]On a chair with a dead magazine
[01:05.36]In the cave at the tip of the lily
[01:09.99]In some hallway where love’s never been
[01:15.58]On a bed where the moon has been sweating
[01:20.40]In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
[01:26.19]Ay, ay, ay, ay
[01:30.26]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[01:35.24]Take its broken waist in your hand
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[01:45.89]This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
[01:50.99]With its very own breath of brandy and death
[01:56.43]Dragging its tail in the sea
[02:03.20]There’s a concert hall in Vienna
[02:08.66]Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
[02:13.99]There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking
[02:18.47]They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
[02:23.79]Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
[02:28.94]With a garland of freshly cut tears?
[02:34.41]Ay, ay, ay, ay
[02:38.71]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[02:43.79]Take this waltz, it’s been dying for years
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[02:54.21]There’s an attic where children are playing
[02:59.62]Where I’ve got to lie down with you soon
[03:04.60]In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
[03:09.73]In the mist of some sweet afternoon
[03:14.75]And I’ll see what you’ve chained to your sorrow
[03:19.70]All your sheep and your lilies of snow
[03:25.22]Ay, ay, ay, ay
[03:29.32]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[03:34.25]With its “I’ll never forget you, you know!”
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[03:45.02]This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
[03:50.16]With its very own breath of brandy and death
[03:55.40]Dragging its tail in the sea
[04:02.39]And I’ll dance with you in Vienna
[04:07.65]I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise
[04:13.08]The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
[04:18.10]My mouth on the dew of your thighs
[04:22.85]And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook
[04:28.04]With the photographs there, and the moss
[04:32.95]And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty
[04:38.14]My cheap violin and my cross
[04:43.14]And you’ll carry me down on your dancing
[04:48.18]To the pools that you lift on your wrist
[04:52.94]Oh my love, oh my love
[04:58.01]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[05:03.47]It’s yours now, it’s all that there is
[05:07.72]Year of Release: 1988