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Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
I fell in love with a madman and it cured me of my madness
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
Now I’m a doer of my joy and a knower of my sadness
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
And if a mad negotiation is bound to go wrong
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
There is a grand negotiation that’s been rollin all along
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
And everybody else got wise and got the hell out of town
And I’m still lying in the bed where all the shit went down
What’s it to you, Leonard Cohen, what’s it to you?
And I’ve been bustin myth ’til nothing more than scattered fact remains
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
And it doesn’t make me happy but I think it keeps me sane
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
But if a myth is just a story and a story is a song
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
I suppose it is the truth I’ve been a believer all along
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
And everybody else got wise, and got themselves out of town
I’m still sleeping in the bed where all the shit went down
What’s it to you, Leonard Cohen, what’s it to you?
And now the leaves blaze golden with the wisdom of death
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
I am on my way out but I ain’t done yet
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
I am renting out the basement in the Tower of Song
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
A hundred floors above me I hear you singing along
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
I fell in love with a madman and it cured me of my madness…
Stand Your Ground, Young Man
Stand your ground, young man
Look into my eyes and tell me you don’t get it
And I’ll try to explain myself again
Stand your ground, young man
Stand your ground, young man
Look into my eyes and tell me you don’t love me
And I will ask you again
Stand your ground, young man
Did you ever learn what alone is?
How it’s smooth and calm as a seaside stone?
And small as a world
And large as a little girl playing in the sand
Stand your ground, young man
Stand your ground, young man
Look into my eyes and break my heart
And tell me that you still don’t believe in regret
There is hope for us yet
When you came out the other end of heartbreak
Were you slightly alarmed at how little you felt?
Or did it calm you to find
What happens to space and time
When you play only what you’re dealt?
‘Course I can only speak for myself
Stand your ground, young man
Sing me your future and dance me your past
We’ll make it last as long as we can
Stand your ground, young man
The Earth That You're Made Of
Dear heart
Bare nerve
Hope this is a good one for you
Fresh start
Slow curve
Do I have to tell you that it’s you
You nipping at your own heels?
Blank slate
Too late
We all know that’s bollocks anyway
Escape the past
At last
The past is not coming back
Nor is it going away
If I were the crescent moon
I’d cradle you up in the stars that you came from
I am not the crescent moon
Brother ain’t no doubt
We’re gonna have to sort it out
Down here on the earth
Down here on the earth that you’re made of
Dear friend
The end
I don’t think I can go through that again
So dig in
Begin
When time’s made you too old for battle
And pain too kind for worry
I wanted to tell you to go away
Go off somewhere and make yourself foreign
Find some pretty natives to love you for being strange
But to rearrange the furniture will not make the whole place new
Gotta start with the earth
Gotta start with the earth that you’re made of
You Are Good, You Are Kind
What if I hadn’t seen planets every time I closed my eyes?
What if there hadn’t been stars being born and galaxies dying?
You came to me from so far away
How did you find your way, how did you find your way to me?
I don’t know how it could have possibly happened
Yet there’s no other way it could possibly be
I’m here to help you remember
'Cause forgetting happens sometimes
I’m here to help you remember
That you are good and you are kind
You are good and you are kind
What if I didn’t grin madly every time I see your face?
What if it weren’t for early impressions that years did not erase?
You came and went, you were so far away
And I was far away, and we were far as we could be
How I ended up back in your arms, I don’t know
But it’s as beautiful a thing as it could be
I’m here to help you remember
'Cause forgetting happens sometimes
I’m here to help you remember
That you are good and you are kind
What if I hadn’t gradually melted over a decade or so?
What if at some point you had written me off?
I was asking for it I know
I’m so sorry about your hurting heart
The victim of its own generosity
Sorry I took so long to recognize you truly
I was truly blind but now I see
I’m here to help you remember
'Cause forgetting happens sometimes
I’m here to help you remember
That you are good and you are kind
So will you help me remember?
'Cause I'm forgetting all the time
Will you help me remember?
That we are good and we are kind
We are good and we are kind