Take This Longing Lyrics

Give me back my broken nightMy mirrored room, my secret lifeIt's lonely here,There's no one left to tortureGive me absolute controlOver every living soulAnd lie beside me, babyThat...Read Full Lyrics

The PartisanWhen they poured across the borderI was cautioned to surrender,This I could not doI took my gun and vanished.I have changed my name so often,I've lost my wife and child...Read Full Lyrics

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violinDance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely inLift me like an olive branch and be my homeward doveDance me to the end of loveDa...Read Full Lyrics

A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes Were smoking out along the open road; The night was very dark and thick between them, Each man beneath his ordinary load. "I'd like ...Read Full Lyrics

And who by fire, who by waterWho in the sunshine, who in the night timeWho by high ordeal, who by common trialWho in your merry-merry month of mayWho by very slow decayAnd who shal...Read Full Lyrics

Many men have loved the bellsYou fastened to the reinAnd everyone who wanted youThey found what they will always want againYour beauty lost to you yourselfJust as it was lost to th...Read Full Lyrics

Leonard CohenLike a bird on the wire,like a drunk in a midnight choirI have tried in my way to be free.Like a worm on a hook,like a knight from some old fashioned bookI have saved ...Read Full Lyrics

It's four in the morning, the end of DecemberI'm writing you now just to see if you're betterNew York is cold, but I like where I'm livingThere's music on Clinton Street all throug...Read Full Lyrics

I tried to leave you, I don't deny I closed the book on us, at least a hundred times. I'd wake up every morning by your side. The years go by, you lose your pride. The baby's cryin...Read Full Lyrics

[Dedicated to A. M. Klein (1909-1972)]Hurt once and for all into silence.A long pain ending without a song to prove it.Who could stand beside you so close to Eden,When you glinted ...Read Full Lyrics