misc lyrics, Leonard Cohen

It's hard to even describe his music. Half-spoken, half-sung... the closest thing I can relate it to is a couple of tracks on Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms album -- The Man's Too Big and Brothers in Arms.

The Future

It's lonely here... there's no one left to torture.

...

I've seen the future brother,
It is murder

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You'll see your woman hanging upside down
Her features covered by her fallen gown
And all the lousy poets coming round, trying to sound
Like Charlie Manson

Closing Time

I loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now there's nothing left but sorrow...

And I missed you since the place got wrecked
And I just don't care what happens next
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
It's something in between, I guess

It's closing time.

And I missed you since our place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
It looks like freedom but it feels like death
It's something in between, I guess

It's closing time.

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The whole damn place goes crazy twice,
And its once for the devil and once for christ...

Anthem

The wars, they will be fought again
The holy dove, she will be caught again
Caught, sold, and bought again,
The dove is never free

Ring the bells that still can ring...
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

They asked for signs, and signs were sent
The birth betrayed, the marriage spent...

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Every heart, every come to love will come
But like a refugee