Take This Longing 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

I went down to the place where I knew she lay waitingUnder the marble and the snowI said, Mother I'm frightened, the thunder and the lightningI'll never come through this aloneShe ...Read Full Lyrics

Now I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vastAnd so shattered, it will reach you everywhere.And I sing this for the captain whose ship has not been...Read Full Lyrics

Why do you stand by the windowAbandoned to beauty and prideThe thorn of the night in your bosomThe spear of the age in your sideLost in the rages of fragranceLost in the rags of re...Read Full Lyrics

I asked my father,I said, "father change my name."The one I'm using now it's covered upWith fear and filth and cowardice and shame.Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover,...Read Full Lyrics

Frankie Lane, he was singing JezebelI pinned an Iron Cross to my lapelI walked up to the tallest and the blondest girlI said, Look, you don't know me now but very soon you willSo w...Read Full Lyrics

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,You were talking so brave and so sweet,Giving me head on the unmade bed,While the limousines wait in the street.Those were the reasons and ...Read Full Lyrics