Do you remember all of those pledges
That we pledged in the passionate night
Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges
Like moths on a still yellow light
No penance serves to renew them
No massive transfusions of trust
Why not even revenge can undo them
So twisted these vows and so crushed.
And you say you've been humbled in love
Cut down in your love
Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one
Who kneels there as deeply as thee.
Children have takes these pledges
They have ferried them out of the past
Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges
Where love must go hiding at last
And here where there is no description
Oh here in the moment at hand
No sinner need rise up forgiven
No victim need limp to the stand.
And you say you've been humbled in love...
And look dear heart, look at the virgin
Look how she welcomes him into her gown
Yes, and mark how the stranger's cold armour
Dissolves like a star falling down
Why trade this vision for desire
When you may have them both
You will never see a man this naked
I will never hold a woman this close.
And you say you've been humbled in love?
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Other Songs Lyrics For 'Leonard Cohen'
A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes
A Bunch Of Lonesome Heros
A Partisan
A Singer Must Die
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Ain't No Cure For Love
Alexandra Leaving
Always
Anthem
Avalanche
Ballad Of The Absent Mare
Be For Real
Bird On The Wire
Bird On The Wire
Boogie Street
By The Rivers Dark
Came So Far For Beauty
Chelsea Hotel N? 2
Chelsea Hotel No. 2
Closing Time
Coming Back To You
Dance Me To The End Of Love
Death of a Ladies' Man
Democracy
Diamonds In The Mine
Don't Go Home With Your Hard-on
Dress Rehearsal Rag
Everybody Knows
Famous Blue Raincoat
Field Commander Cohen
Fingerprints
First We Take Manhattan
Hallelujah
Heart With No Companion
Here It Is
Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
Humbled In Love
Hunter's Lullaby
I Came So Far For Beauty
I Can't Forget
I Left A Woman Waiting
I Tried To Leave You
I'm Your Man
If It Be Your Will
Improvisation
In My Secret Life
Iodine
Is This What You Wanted
Jazz Police
Joan Of Arc
Lady Midnight
Last Year's Man
Leaving Green Sleeves
Light As The Breeze
Love Calls You By Your Name
Love Itself
Lover Lover Lover
Master Song
Master Song
Memories
Minute Prologue
Nancy
Never Any Good
Night Comes On
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Our Lady Of Solitude
Paper Thin Hotel
Paper Thin Motel
Passing Through
Please Don't Pass Me By (a Disgrace)
Queen Victoria
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
Sing Another Song, Boys
Sisters of Mercy
So Long, Marianne
Stories Of The Street
Story Of Isaac
Story Of Isaac
Suzanne
Tacoma Trailer
Take This Longing
Take This Waltz
Teachers
That Don't Make It Junk
The Butcher
The Captain
The Future
The Great Event
The Guests
The Gypsy's Wife
The Land Of Plenty
The Law
The Lost Canadian
The Old Revolution
The Smokey Life
The Stranger Song
The Traitor
The Window
There Is A War
Tonight Will Be Fine
Tonight Will Be Fine
Tower Of Song
True Love Leaves No Traces
Waiting for the Miracle
Who By Fire
Why Don't You Try
Winter Lady
You Have Loved Enough
You Know Who I Am
You Know Who I Am
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