Lyrics Teachers.lrc Leonard Cohen
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[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Songs of Leonard Cohen]
[ti: Teachers]
[length: 03:03]
[00:09.83]I met a woman long ago
[00:12.11]Her hair the black that black can go
[00:14.67]”Are you a teacher of the heart?”
[00:17.19]Soft she answered, “No”
[00:21.99]I met a girl across the sea
[00:24.29]Her hair the gold that gold can be
[00:26.92]”Are you a teacher of the heart?”
[00:29.43]”Yes, but not for thee”
[00:34.09]I met a man who lost his mind
[00:36.55]In some lost place I had to find
[00:39.24]”Follow me”, the wise man said
[00:42.20]But he walked behind
[00:46.89]I walked into a hospital
[00:48.82]Where none was sick and none was well
[00:51.68]When at night the nurses left
[00:53.95]I could not walk at all
[00:57.11]
[00:59.12]Morning came and then came noon
[01:01.41]Dinner time, a scalpel blade
[01:03.92]Lay beside my silver spoon
[01:09.79]Some girls wander by mistake
[01:12.37]Into the mess that scalpels make
[01:14.85]”Are you the teachers of my heart?”
[01:17.05]”We teach old hearts to break”
[01:21.91]One morning I woke up alone
[01:24.45]The hospital and the nurses gone
[01:27.30]”Have I carved enough, my Lord?”
[01:29.88]”Child, you are a bone”
[01:34.26]I ate and ate and ate
[01:36.58]No, I did not miss a plate
[01:38.84]”Well, how much do these suppers cost?”
[01:41.58]”We’ll take it out in hate”
[01:46.52]I spent my hatred everyplace
[01:49.05]On every work on every face
[01:51.56]Someone gave me wishes
[01:53.81]And I wished for an embrace
[01:58.95]Several girls embraced me
[02:01.45]Then I was embraced by men
[02:03.93]”Is my passion perfect?”
[02:05.58]”No, do it once again”
[02:09.39]
[02:11.64]I was handsome I was strong
[02:13.79]I knew the words of every song
[02:16.02]”Did my singing please you?”
[02:17.94]”No, the words you sang were wrong”
[02:23.38]”Who is it whom I address
[02:25.65]Who takes down what I confess?
[02:28.13]Are you the teachers of my heart?”
[02:30.44]”We teach old hearts to rest”
[02:35.58]”Oh, teachers are my lessons done?
[02:37.65]I cannot do another one”
[02:40.35]They laughed and laughed and said
[02:41.98]”Well, child, are your lessons done?”
[02:46.72]”Are your lessons done?”
[02:50.11]”Are your lessons done?”
[02:51.51]Year of Release: 1967