Lyrics The Captain.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshjokhq]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Various Positions]
[ti: The Captain]
[length: 04:10]
[00:07.55]Now the Captain called me to his bed
[00:11.72]He fumbled for my hand
[00:15.66]”Take these silver bars,” he said
[00:19.21]”I’m giving you command”
[00:22.69]”Command of what, there’s no one here
[00:26.47]There’s only you and me
[00:30.69]All the rest are dead or in retreat
[00:34.75]Or with the enemy”
[00:38.38]”Complain, complain, that’s all you’ve done
[00:42.43]Ever since we lost
[00:45.86]If it’s not the Crucifixion
[00:49.66]Then it’s the Holocaust”
[00:53.22]”May Christ have mercy on your soul
[00:56.96]For making such a joke
[01:01.06]Amid these hearts that burn like coal
[01:04.73]And the flesh that rose like smoke”
[01:08.69]”I know that you have suffered, lad
[01:12.75]But suffer this awhile
[01:16.20]Whatever makes a soldier sad
[01:20.32]Will make a killer smile”
[01:24.05]”I’m leaving, Captain, and I’ve got to go
[01:27.89]There’s blood upon your hand
[01:31.65]But tell me, Captain, if you know
[01:35.24]Of a decent place to stand”
[01:39.24]”There is no decent place to stand
[01:43.69]In a massacre
[01:46.76]But if a woman take your hand
[01:50.36]Then go and stand with her”
[01:54.57]”I left a wife in Tennessee
[01:58.22]And a baby in Saigon
[02:01.91]I risked my life, but not to hear
[02:06.01]Some country-western song”
[02:09.64]”Ah but if you cannot raise your love
[02:13.06]To a very high degree
[02:17.22]Then you’re just the man I’ve been thinking of
[02:21.33]So come and stand with me”
[02:24.73]”Your standing days are done,” I cried
[02:28.71]”You’ll rally me no more
[02:33.17]I don’t even know what side
[02:36.42]We fought on, or what for”
[02:40.34]”I’m on the side that’s always lost
[02:43.73]Against the side of Heaven
[02:47.39]I’m on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
[02:51.46]Against the side of Seven
[02:54.89]And I’ve read the Bill of Human Rights
[02:58.95]And some of it was true
[03:02.70]But there wasn’t any burden left
[03:06.37]So I’m laying it on you”
[03:10.38]Now the Captain he was dying
[03:14.19]But the Captain wasn’t hurt
[03:17.80]The silver bars were in my hand
[03:22.24]I pinned them to my shirt
[03:24.42]Year of Release: 1984