Puppets 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

Show me the place, where you want your slave to go Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know Show me the place where my head is bend and low Show me the place, where you want ...Read Full Lyrics

There was a child named Bernadette I heard the story long ago She saw the queen of heaven once And kept the vision in her soul No one believed what she had seen No one believed wha...Read Full Lyrics

(Let's sing another song, boys, this one has grown old and bitter.) Ah his fingernails, I see they're broken, His ships they're all on fire. The moneylender's lovely little daught...Read Full Lyrics

O the sisters of mercy they are not Departed or gone, They were waiting for me when I thought That I just can't go on, And they brought me their comfort And later they brought me t...Read Full Lyrics

(from the album 'songs of leonard cohen') Come over to the window, my little darling, I'd like to try to read your palm. I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy Before I let ...Read Full Lyrics

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Frank & Louis) Are you still here? What are you waiting for? Your lives to change? An oracle to speak? Some version of the wounded ...Read Full Lyrics

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Michael) We were chosen, we were chosen Miles and miles apart I to love your kingdom You to love my heart (Angels) We were chosen ...Read Full Lyrics

Steer your way past the ruins of the Altar and the Mall Steer your way through the fables of Creation and The Fall Steer your way past the Palaces that rise above the rot Year b...Read Full Lyrics