Leonard Cohen - Treaty Lyrics

Leonard Cohen - Treaty Lyrics

I've seen you change the water into wine

I've seen you change it back to water, too

I sit at your table every night

I try but I just don't get high with you

I wish there was a treaty we could sign

I do not care who takes this bloody hill

I'm angry and I'm tired all the time

I wish there was a treaty, I wish there was a treaty

Between your love and mine

Ah, they're dancing in the street—it's Jubilee

We sold ourselves for love but now we're free

I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be

Only one of us was real and that was me

I haven't said a word since you been gone

That any liar couldn't say as well

I just can't believe the static coming on

You were my ground, my safe and sound

You were my aerial

Ah, the fields are crying out—it's Jubilee

We sold ourselves for love but now we're free

I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be

Only one of us was real and that was me

I heard the snake was baffled by his sin

He shed his scales to find the snake within

But born again is born without a skin

The poison enters into everything

And I wish there was a treaty we could sign

I do not care who takes this bloody hill

I'm angry and I'm tired all the time

I wish there was a treaty, I wish there was a treaty

Between your love and mine

Leonard Cohen - The Future Lyrics

Leonard Cohen - The Future Lyrics

Give me back my broken night

My mirrored room, my secret life

It's lonely here

There's no one left to torture

Give me absolute control

Over every living soul

And lie beside me, baby

That's an order!

Give me crack and anal sex

Take the only tree that's left

And stuff it up the hole

In your culture

Give me back the Berlin wall

Give me Stalin and St. Paul

I've seen the future, brother

It is murder

Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions

Won't be nothing (won't be)

Nothing you can measure anymore

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold

And it has overturned

The order of the soul

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind

You never will, you never did

I'm the little Jew

Who wrote the Bible

I've seen the nations rise and fall

I've heard their stories, heard them all

But love's the only engine

Of survival

Your servant here, he has been told

To say it clear, to say it cold

It's over, it ain't going any further

And now the wheels of heaven stop

You feel the devil's riding crop

Get ready for the future: It is murder

Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions

Won't be nothing (won't be)

Nothing you can measure anymore

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold

And it has overturned the order of the soul

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code

Your private life will suddenly explode

There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road

And the white man dancing

You'll see your woman hanging upside down

Her features covered by her fallen gown

And all the lousy little poets coming round

Trying to sound like Charlie Manson

Yeah the white man dancing

Give me back the Berlin wall

Give me Stalin and St. Paul

Give me Christ

Or give me Hiroshima

Destroy another fetus now

We don't like children anyhow

I've seen the future, baby: It is murder

Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions

Won't be nothing (won't be), nothing you can measure anymore

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold

And it has overturned

The order of the soul

When they said (they said) repent (repent)

Repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent)

Repent (repent)

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent)

Repent (repent)

Suzanne - Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Suzanne - Leonard Cohen 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 there

And she feeds you tea and oranges

That come all the way from China

And just when you mean to tell her

That you have no love to give her

Then she gets you on her wavelength

And she lets the river answer

That you've always been her lover

And you want to travel with her

And you want to travel blind

And you know that she will trust you

For you've touched her perfect body with your mind

And Jesus was a sailor

When he walked upon the water

And he spent a long time watching

From his lonely wooden tower

And when he knew for certain

Only drowning men could see him

He said "All men will be sailors then

Until the sea shall free them"

But he himself was broken

Long before the sky would open

Forsaken, almost human

He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

And you want to travel with him

And you want to travel blind

And you think maybe you'll trust him

For he's touched your perfect body with his mind

Now Suzanne takes your hand

And she leads you to the river

She is wearing rags and feathers

From Salvation Army counters

And the sun pours down like honey

On our lady of the harbour

And she shows you where to look

Among the garbage and the flowers

There are heroes in the seaweed

There are children in the morning

They are leaning out for love

And they will lean that way forever

While Suzanne holds the mirror

And you want to travel with her

And you want to travel blind

And you know that you can trust her

For she's touched your perfect body with her mind