Song Of Destruction 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

The stories of the street are mine The spanish voices laugh The cadillacs go creeping down Through the night and the poison gas I lean from mu window sill In this old hotel I chose...Read Full Lyrics

The door it opened slowly, My father he came in, I was nine years old. And he stood so tall above me, His blue eyes they were shining And his voice was very cold. He said, "I've ha...Read Full Lyrics

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be ...Read Full Lyrics

Many men have loved the bells You fastened to the rein, And everyone who wanted you They found what they will always want again. Your beauty lost to you yourself Just as it was los...Read Full Lyrics

(after Lorca) Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry There's a lobby with nine hundred windows There's a tree where the doves go to die ...Read Full Lyrics

I met a woman long ago Her hair the black that black can go, Are you a teacher of the heart? Soft she answered no. I met a girl across the sea, Her hair the gold that gold can be,...Read Full Lyrics

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") [cf the lyrics to the song "Anthem" on the Cohen album "The Future"] (Judy) The birds they sang at break of day Start again, I hear...Read Full Lyrics

I fought against the bottle, But I had to do it drunk? Took my diamond to the pawnshop? But that don? T make it junk. I know that I? M forgiven, But I don? T know how I know I don...Read Full Lyrics