First We Take Manhattan Lyrics

[Dedicated to Irving Layton] So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears it's...Read Full Lyrics

I love to speak with Leonard He's a sportsman and a shepherd He's a lazy bastard Living in a suit But he does say what I tell him Even though it isn't welcome He will never have ...Read Full Lyrics

(Lyrics: Cohen, Recorded By Buffy Sainte-Marie) God is alive, magic is afoot God is alive, magic is afoot God is alive, magic is afoot God is afoot, magic is alive Alive is afoot,...Read Full Lyrics

Now I've heard there was a secret chord That david played, and it pleased the lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fa...Read Full Lyrics

And where, where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight I've heard all the wild reports, they can't be right But whose head is this she's dancing with on the threshing floor Whose darknes...Read Full Lyrics

I was always working steady But I never called it art I was funding my depression Meeting Jesus reading Marx Sure it failed my little fire But it's bright the dying spark Go ...Read Full Lyrics

Here is your crown And your seal and rings; And here is your love For all things. Here is your cart, And your cardboard and piss; And here is your love For all of this. May every...Read Full Lyrics

I greet you from the other side Of sorrow and despair With a love so vast and shattered It will reach you everywhere And I sing this for the captain Whose ship has not been built ...Read Full Lyrics

Do you remember all of those pledges That we pledged in the passionate night Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges Like moths on a still yellow light No penance serves t...Read Full Lyrics

I loved you in the morning Our kisses deep and warm, Your head upon the pillow Like a sleepy golden strom. Yes, many loved before us I know that we are not new, In city and in fore...Read Full Lyrics