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DISCID=8a08b70b
DTITLE=Leonard Cohen / New Skin For The Old Ceremony
DYEAR=1974
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=Is This What You Wanted
TTITLE1=Chelsea Hotel #2
TTITLE2=Lover Lover Lover
TTITLE3=Field Commander Cohen
TTITLE4=Why Don't You Try
TTITLE5=There Is A War
TTITLE6=A Singer Must Die
TTITLE7=I Tried To Leave You
TTITLE8=Who By Fire
TTITLE9=Take This Longing
TTITLE10=Leaving Green Sleeves
EXTD= YEAR: 1974 ID3G: 17
EXTT0=You were the promise at dawn,\n\nI was the morning after.\n\nYou
EXTT0= were Jesus Christ my Lord,\n\nI was the money lender.\n\nYou we
EXTT0=re the sensitive woman,\n\nI was the very reverend Freud.\n\nYou
EXTT0= were the manual orgasm,\n\nI was the dirty little boy.\n\n\n\nA
EXTT0=nd is this what you wanted\n\nto live in a house that is haunted
EXTT0=\n\nby the ghost of you and me?\n\n\n\nIs this what you wanted .
EXTT0=..\n\n\n\nYou were Marlon Brando,\n\nI was Steve McQueen.\n\nYou
EXTT0= were K.Y. Jelly,\n\nI was Vaseline.\n\nYou were the father of m
EXTT0=odern medicine,\n\nI was Mr. Clean.\n\nYou where the whore and t
EXTT0=he beast of Babylon,\n\nI was Rin Tin Tin.\n\n\n\nAnd is this wh
EXTT0=at you wanted ...\n\n\n\nAnd is this what you wanted ...\n\n\n\n
EXTT0=You got old and wrinkled,\n\nI stayed seventeen.\n\nYou lusted a
EXTT0=fter so many,\n\nI lay here with one.\n\nYou defied your solitud
EXTT0=e,\n\nI came through alone.\n\nYou said you could never love me,
EXTT0=\n\nI undid your gown.\n\n\n\nAnd is this what you wanted ...\n\n
EXTT0=\n\nAnd is this what you wanted ...\n\n\n\nI mean is this what y
EXTT0=ou wanted ...\n\n\n\nThat's right, is this what you wanted ...
EXTT1=I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,\n\nyou were talking so
EXTT1= brave and so sweet,\n\ngiving me head on the unmade bed,\n\nwhi
EXTT1=le the limousines wait in the street.\n\nThose were the reasons 
EXTT1=and that was New York,\n\nwe were running for the money and the 
EXTT1=flesh.\n\nAnd that was called love for the workers in song\n\npr
EXTT1=obably still is for those of them left.\n\n\n\nAh but you got aw
EXTT1=ay, didn't you babe,\n\nyou just turned your back on the crowd,\n
EXTT1=\nyou got away, I never once heard you say,\n\nI need you, I don
EXTT1='t need you,\n\nI need you, I don't need you\n\nand all of that 
EXTT1=jiving around.\n\n\n\nI remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel\n
EXTT1=\nyou were famous, your heart was a legend.\n\nYou told me again
EXTT1= you preferred handsome men\n\nbut for me you would make an exce
EXTT1=ption.\n\nAnd clenching your fist for the ones like us\n\nwho ar
EXTT1=e oppressed by the figures of beauty,\n\nyou fixed yourself, you
EXTT1= said, "Well never mind,\n\nwe are ugly but we have the music."\n
EXTT1=\n\n\nAnd then you got away, didn't you babe...\n\n\n\nI don't m
EXTT1=ean to suggest that I loved you the best,\n\nI can't keep track 
EXTT1=of each fallen robin.\n\nI remember you well in the Chelsea Hote
EXTT1=l,\n\nthat's all, I don't even think of you that often.\n\n
EXTT2=I asked my father,\n\nI said, "Father change my name."\n\nThe on
EXTT2=e I'm using now it's covered up\n\nwith fear and filth and cowar
EXTT2=dice and shame.\n\n\n\nYes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
EXTT2=, lover, lover come back to me,\n\nyes and lover, lover, lover, 
EXTT2=lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.\n\n\n\nHe said, "I l
EXTT2=ocked you in this body,\n\nI meant it as a kind of trial.\n\nYou
EXTT2= can use it for a weapon,\n\nor to make some woman smile."\n\n\n
EXTT2=\nYes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come b
EXTT2=ack to me\n\nyes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, l
EXTT2=over come back to me.\n\n\n\n"Then let me start again," I cried,
EXTT2=\n\n"please let me start again,\n\nI want a face that's fair thi
EXTT2=s time,\n\nI want a spirit that is calm."\n\n\n\nYes and lover, 
EXTT2=lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me\n\nyes 
EXTT2=and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to
EXTT2= me.\n\n\n\n"I never never turned aside," he said,\n\n"I never w
EXTT2=alked away.\n\nIt was you who built the temple,\n\nit was you wh
EXTT2=o covered up my face."\n\n\n\nYes and lover, lover, lover, lover
EXTT2=, lover, lover, lover come back to me\n\nyes and lover, lover, l
EXTT2=over, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.\n\n\n\nAnd may
EXTT2= the spirit of this song,\n\nmay it rise up pure and free.\n\nMa
EXTT2=y it be a shield for you,\n\na shield against the enemy.\n\n\n\n
EXTT2=Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come bac
EXTT2=k to me\n\nyes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lov
EXTT2=er come back to me.\n\n\n\nYes and lover, lover, lover, lover, l
EXTT2=over, lover, lover come back to me\n\nyes and lover, lover, love
EXTT2=r, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.\n\n
EXTT3=Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy.\n\nWounded
EXTT3= in the line of duty,\n\nparachuting acid into diplomatic cockta
EXTT3=il parties,\n\nurging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles
EXTT3=.\n\nLeave it all and like a man,\n\ncome back to nothing specia
EXTT3=l,\n\nsuch as waiting rooms and ticket lines,\n\nsilver bullet s
EXTT3=uicides,\n\nand messianic ocean tides,\n\nand racial roller-coas
EXTT3=ter rides\n\nand other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.\n\n
EXTT3=\n\nI know you need your sleep now,\n\nI know your life's been h
EXTT3=ard.\n\nBut many men are falling,\n\nwhere you promised to stand
EXTT3= guard.\n\n\n\nI never asked but I heard you cast your lot along
EXTT3= with the poor.\n\nBut then I overheard your prayer,\n\nthat you
EXTT3= be this and nothing more\n\nthan just some grateful faithful wo
EXTT3=man's favourite singing millionaire,\n\nthe patron Saint of envy
EXTT3= and the grocer of despair,\n\nworking for the Yankee Dollar.\n\n
EXTT3=\n\nI know you need your sleep now ...\n\n\n\nAh, lover come and
EXTT3= lie with me, if my lover is who you are,\n\nand be your sweetes
EXTT3=t self awhile until I ask for more, my child.\n\nThen let the ot
EXTT3=her selves be wrong, yeah, let them manifest and come\n\ntill ev
EXTT3=ery taste is on the tongue,\n\ntill love is pierced and love is 
EXTT3=hung,\n\nand every kind of freedom done, then oh,\n\noh my love,
EXTT3= oh my love, oh my love,\n\noh my love, oh my love, oh my love.\n
EXTT3=\n
EXTT4=Why don't you try to do without him?\n\nWhy don't you try to liv
EXTT4=e alone?\n\nDo you really need his hands for your passion?\n\nDo
EXTT4= you really need his heart for your throne?\n\nDo you need his l
EXTT4=abour for your baby?\n\nDo you need his beast for the bone?\n\nD
EXTT4=o you need to hold a leash to be a lady?\n\nI know you're going 
EXTT4=to make, make it on your own.\n\n\n\nWhy don't your try to forge
EXTT4=t him?\n\nJust open up your dainty little hand.\n\nYou know this
EXTT4= life is filled with many sweet companions,\n\nmany satisfying o
EXTT4=ne-night stands.\n\nDo you want to be the ditch around a tower?\n
EXTT4=\nDo you want to be the moonlight in his cave?\n\nDo you want to
EXTT4= give your blessing to his power\n\nas he goes whistling past hi
EXTT4=s daddy, past his daddy's grave.\n\n\n\nI'd like to take you tak
EXTT4=e you to the ceremony,\n\nwell, that is if I remember the way.\n
EXTT4=\nYou see Jack and Jill they're going to join their misery,\n\nI
EXTT4='m afraid it's time for everyone to pray.\n\nYou can see they've
EXTT4= finally taken cover,\n\nthey're willing, yeah they're willing t
EXTT4=o obey.\n\nTheir vows are difficult, they're for each other,\n\n
EXTT4=so let nobody put a loophole, a loophole in their way.\n\n
EXTT5=There is a war between the rich and poor,\n\na war between the m
EXTT5=an and the woman.\n\nThere is a war between the ones who say the
EXTT5=re is a war\n\nand the ones who say there isn't.\n\n\n\nWhy don'
EXTT5=t you come on back to the war, that's right, get in it,\n\nwhy d
EXTT5=on't you come on back to the war, it's just beginning.\n\n\n\nWe
EXTT5=ll I live here with a woman and a child,\n\nthe situation makes 
EXTT5=me kind of nervous.\n\nYes, I rise up from her arms, she says "I
EXTT5= guess you call this love";\n\nI call it service.\n\n\n\nWhy don
EXTT5='t you come on back to the war, don't be a tourist,\n\nwhy don't
EXTT5= you come on back to the war, before it hurts us,\n\nwhy don't y
EXTT5=ou come on back to the war, let's all get nervous.\n\n\n\nYou ca
EXTT5=nnot stand what I've become,\n\nyou much prefer the gentleman I 
EXTT5=was before.\n\nI was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control
EXTT5=,\n\nI didn't even know there was a war.\n\n\n\nWhy don't you co
EXTT5=me on back to the war, don't be embarrassed,\n\nwhy don't you co
EXTT5=me on back to the war, you can still get married.\n\n\n\nThere i
EXTT5=s a war between the rich and poor,\n\na war between the man and 
EXTT5=the woman.\n\nThere is a war between the left and right,\n\na wa
EXTT5=r between the black and white,\n\na war between the odd and the 
EXTT5=even.\n\n\n\nWhy don't you come on back to the war, pick up your
EXTT5= tiny burden,\n\nwhy don't you come on back to the war, let's al
EXTT5=l get even,\n\nwhy don't you come on back to the war, can't you 
EXTT5=hear me speaking?\n\n
EXTT6=Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess.\n\nIs it true 
EXTT6=you betrayed us? The answer is Yes.\n\nThen read me the list of 
EXTT6=the crimes that are mine,\n\nI will ask for the mercy that you l
EXTT6=ove to decline.\n\nAnd all the ladies go moist, and the judge ha
EXTT6=s no choice,\n\na singer must die for the lie in his voice.\n\n\n
EXTT6=\nAnd I thank you, I thank you for doing your duty,\n\nyou keepe
EXTT6=rs of truth, you guardians of beauty.\n\nYour vision is right, m
EXTT6=y vision is wrong,\n\nI'm sorry for smudging the air with my son
EXTT6=g.\n\n\n\nOh, the night it is thick, my defences are hid\n\nin t
EXTT6=he clothes of a woman I would like to forgive,\n\nin the rings o
EXTT6=f her silk, in the hinge of her thighs,\n\nwhere I have to go be
EXTT6=gging in beauty's disguise.\n\nOh goodnight, goodnight, my night
EXTT6= after night,\n\nmy night after night, after night, after night,
EXTT6= after night, after night.\n\n\n\nI am so afraid that I listen t
EXTT6=o you,\n\nyour sun glassed protectors they do that to you.\n\nIt
EXTT6='s their ways to detain, their ways to disgrace,\n\ntheir knee i
EXTT6=n your balls and their fist in your face.\n\nYes and long live t
EXTT6=he state by whoever it's made,\n\nsir, I didn't see nothing, I w
EXTT6=as just getting home late.\n\n
EXTT7=I tried to leave you, I don't deny\n\nI closed the book on us, a
EXTT7=t least a hundred times.\n\nI'd wake up every morning by your si
EXTT7=de.\n\n\n\nThe years go by, you lose your pride.\n\nThe baby's c
EXTT7=rying, so you do not go outside,\n\nand all your work it's right
EXTT7= before your eyes.\n\n\n\nGoodnight, my darling, I hope you're s
EXTT7=atisfied,\n\nthe bed is kind of narrow, but my arms are open wid
EXTT7=e.\n\nAnd here's a man still working for your smile.\n\n
EXTT8=And who by fire, who by water,\n\nwho in the sunshine, who in th
EXTT8=e night time,\n\nwho by high ordeal, who by common trial,\n\nwho
EXTT8= in your merry merry month of may,\n\nwho by very slow decay,\n\n
EXTT8=and who shall I say is calling?\n\n\n\nAnd who in her lonely sli
EXTT8=p, who by barbiturate,\n\nwho in these realms of love, who by so
EXTT8=mething blunt,\n\nand who by avalanche, who by powder,\n\nwho fo
EXTT8=r his greed, who for his hunger,\n\nand who shall I say is calli
EXTT8=ng?\n\n\n\nAnd who by brave assent, who by accident,\n\nwho in s
EXTT8=olitude, who in this mirror,\n\nwho by his lady's command, who b
EXTT8=y his own hand,\n\nwho in mortal chains, who in power,\n\nand wh
EXTT8=o shall I say is calling?\n\n
EXTT9=Many men have loved the bells\n\nyou fastened to the rein,\n\nan
EXTT9=d everyone who wanted you\n\nthey found what they will always wa
EXTT9=nt again.\n\nYour beauty lost to you yourself\n\njust as it was 
EXTT9=lost to them.\n\n\n\nOh take this longing from my tongue,\n\nwha
EXTT9=tever useless things these hands have done.\n\nLet me see your b
EXTT9=eauty broken down\n\nlike you would do for one you love.\n\n\n\n
EXTT9=Your body like a searchlight\n\nmy poverty revealed,\n\nI would 
EXTT9=like to try your charity\n\nuntil you cry, "Now you must try my 
EXTT9=greed."\n\nAnd everything depends upon\n\nhow near you sleep to 
EXTT9=me\n\n\n\nJust take this longing from my tongue\n\nall the lonel
EXTT9=y things my hands have done.\n\nLet me see your beauty broken do
EXTT9=wn\n\nlike you would do for one your love.\n\n\n\nHungry as an a
EXTT9=rchway\n\nthrough which the troops have passed,\n\nI stand in ru
EXTT9=ins behind you,\n\nwith your winter clothes, your broken sandal 
EXTT9=straps.\n\nI love to see you naked over there\n\nespecially from
EXTT9= the back.\n\n\n\nOh take this longing from my tongue,\n\nall th
EXTT9=e useless things my hands have done,\n\nuntie for me your hired 
EXTT9=blue gown,\n\nlike you would do for one that you love.\n\n\n\nYo
EXTT9=u're faithful to the better man,\n\nI'm afraid that he left.\n\n
EXTT9=So let me judge your love affair\n\nin this very room where I ha
EXTT9=ve sentenced\n\nmine to death.\n\nI'll even wear these old laure
EXTT9=l leaves\n\nthat he's shaken from his head.\n\n\n\nJust take thi
EXTT9=s longing from my tongue,\n\nall the useless things my hands hav
EXTT9=e done,\n\nlet me see your beauty broken down,\n\nlike you would
EXTT9= do for one you love.\n\n\n\nLike you would do for one you love.
EXTT9=\n\n
EXTT10=Alas, my love, you did me wrong,\n\nto cast me out discourteous
EXTT10=ly,\n\nfor I have loved you so long,\n\ndelighting in your very
EXTT10= company.\n\nNow if you intend to show me disdain,\n\ndon't you
EXTT10= know it all the more enraptures me,\n\nfor even so I still rem
EXTT10=ain your lover in captivity.\n\n\n\nGreen sleeves, you're all a
EXTT10=lone,\n\nthe leaves have fallen, the men have gone.\n\nGreen sl
EXTT10=eeves, there's no one home,\n\nnot even the Lady Green Sleeves\n
EXTT10=\n\n\nI sang my songs, I told my lies,\n\nto lie between your m
EXTT10=atchless thighs.\n\nAnd ain't it fine, ain't it wild\n\nto fina
EXTT10=lly end our exercise\n\nThen I saw you naked in the early dawn,
EXTT10=\n\noh, I hoped you would be someone new.\n\nI reached for you 
EXTT10=but you were gone,\n\nso lady I'm going too.\n\n\n\nGreen sleev
EXTT10=es, you're all alone ...\n\n\n\nGreen sleeves, you're all alone
EXTT10=,\n\nthe leaves have fallen, the men have all gone home.\n\nGre
EXTT10=en sleeves, it's so easily done,\n\nleaving the Lady Green Slee
EXTT10=ves.\n\n
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