Nightingale Lyrics

I went down to the place Where I knew she lay waiting Under the marble and the snow I said, mother I'm frightened The thunder and the lightning I'll never come through this alone S...Read Full Lyrics

Some people say It's what we deserve For sins against g-d For crimes in the world I wouldn't know I'm just holding the fort Since that day They wounded New York Some people say The...Read Full Lyrics

I knew that it was wrong I didn't have a doubt I was dying to get back home And you were starting out I said I'd best be moving on You said we have all day You smiled at me l...Read Full Lyrics

I lit a thin green candle To make you jealous of me, But the room just filled up with mosquitoes They heard that my body was free Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night And...Read Full Lyrics

The walls of this hotel are paper-thin Last night I heard you making love to him The struggle mouth to mouth and limb to limb The grunt of unity when he came in I stood there with ...Read Full Lyrics

And who will write love songs for you When I am lord at last And your body is some little highway shrine That all my priests have passed, That all my priests have passed? My pries...Read Full Lyrics

I saw jesus on the cross on a hill called calvary "do you hate mankind for what they done to you? " He said, "talk of love not hate, things to do - it's getting late. I've so littl...Read Full Lyrics

German puppets burnt the Jews Jewish puppets did not choose Puppet vultures eat the dead Puppet corpses they are fed Puppet winds and puppet waves Puppet sailors in ...Read Full Lyrics

I was walking in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I felt a cardboard placard on his back. And when we passed a streetlight, I could read it, it said "...Read Full Lyrics

(A Cohen Poem Set To Music) Queen Victoria, My father and all his tobacco loved you, I love you too in all your forms, The slim and lovely virgin floating among German beer, The m...Read Full Lyrics