Lyrics The Old Revolution.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: ijfvawkg]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Songs From A Room]
[ti: The Old Revolution]
[length: 04:49]
[00:04.22]I finally broke into the prison
[00:12.22]I found my place in the chain
[00:21.14]Even damnation is poisoned with rainbow
[00:31.19]All the brave young men
[00:37.03]They’re waiting now to see a signal
[00:43.61]Which some killer will be lighting for pay
[00:52.03]Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
[01:01.43]You, whom I cannot betray
[01:11.48]I fought in the old revolution
[01:23.07]On the side of the ghost and the king
[01:31.86]Of course I was very young
[01:35.10]And I thought that we were winning
[01:40.54]I can’t pretend, I still feel very much like singing
[01:54.17]As they carry the bodies away
[02:02.36]Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
[02:11.75]You, whom I cannot betray
[02:21.93]Lately you’ve started to stutter
[02:33.26]As though you had nothing to say
[02:42.44]To all of my architects
[02:45.71]Let me be traitor
[02:50.17]Now let me say, I myself gave the order
[03:02.38]To sleep and to search and to destroy
[03:12.12]Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
[03:22.18]You, whom I cannot betray
[03:30.96]Yes, you, who are broken by power
[03:43.42]You, who are absent all day
[03:51.84]You, who are kings
[03:54.91]For the sake of your children’s story
[03:59.17]The hand of your beggar is burdened down with money
[04:14.20]The hand of your lover is clay
[04:22.40]Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
[04:32.00]You, whom I cannot betray
[04:39.22]Year of Release: 1969