Showing posts with label Leonard Cohen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonard Cohen. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 December 2023

That's No Way to Say Goodbye

I loved you in the morning

Our kisses deep and warm

Your hair upon the pillow

Like a sleepy golden storm.

Yes, many loved before us

I know that we are not new,

In city and in forest

They smiled like me and you,

But now it's come to distances

And both of us must try,

Your eyes are soft with sorrow,

Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

I'm not looking for another
As I wander in my time,
Walk me to the corner
Our steps will always rhyme,
You know my love goes with you
As your love stays with me,
It's just the way it changes
Like the shoreline and the sea,
But let's not talk of love or chains
And things we can't untie,
Your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

I loved you in the morning
Our kisses deep and warm,
Your hair upon the pillow
Like a sleepy golden storm.
Yes, many loved before us
I know that we are not new,
In city and in forest
They smiled like me and you
But let's not talk of love or chains
And things we can't untie,
Your eyes are soft with sorrow
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

~ Leonard Cohen

Friday, 10 March 2023

Burden’s Heavy

It wasn't all that easyWhen you up and walked awayBut I'll save that little storyFor another rainy day
  Leonard Cohen

Monday, 9 May 2022

Hineni, hineni. I'm ready, my Lord.

Magnified, sanctified
Be the holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Come Healing

O, gather up the brokenness
Bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow

The splinters that you carried
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind…

~ Leonard Cohen

Saturday, 2 January 2021

Love So Vast and Shattered

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
~ Leonard Cohen

Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Come Healing

O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow.

The splinters that you carry
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind.

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb.

Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace.

O solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind.

O see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart.

O troubled dust concealing
An undivided love
The heart beneath is teaching
To the broken heart above.

Let the heavens falter
Let the earth proclaim
Come healing of the altar
Come healing of the name.

O longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O longing of the arteries
To purify the blood.

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb.

O let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb.

~ Leonard Cohen

Tuesday, 4 September 2018

Come Healing ~ Leonard Cohen



Come Healing

O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow

The splinters that you carry
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace

O solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

O see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart

O troubled dust concealing
An undivided love
The heart beneath is teaching
To the broken heart above

Let the heavens falter
Let the earth proclaim
Come healing of the altar
Come healing of the name

O longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O longing of the arteries
To purify the blood

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

O let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb