The Sleeping Beauty Lyrics By Leonard Cohen “You are brave”, I told the Sleeping Beauty, “to climb these steps into my home, but I regret your...
The Adulterous Wives of Solomon Lyrics by Leonard Cohen The adulterous wives of Solomon Lie with young archers behind the filigree doors. The music from his...
When I Uncovered Your Body Lyrics by Leonard Cohen When I uncovered your body I thought shadows fell deceptively, urging memories of perfect rhyme. I thought...
Inquiry Into the Nature of Cruelty Lyrics by Leonard Cohen A moth drowned in my urine, his powdered body finally satin. My eyes gleamed in the...
Sing to Fish, Embrace the Beast Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Sing to fish, embrace the beast, But don’t get up from the pond With half your...
Credo Lyrics by Leonard Cohen A cloud of grasshoppers rose from where we loved and passed before the sun. I wondered what farms they would devour,...
It Swings, Jocko Lyrics by Leonard Cohen It swings, Jocko, but we do not want too much flesh in it. Make it like fifteenth-century prayers, love...
I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries Lyrics by Leonard Cohen I have not lingered in European monasteries and discovered among the tall grasses tombs of...
To a Teacher (poem) Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Hurt once and for all into silence. A long pain ending without a song to prove it. Who...
Twelve O’Clock Chant Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Hold me hard light, soft light hold me, Moonlight in your mountains fold me, Sunlight in your tall waves...
Alone the Master and the Slave Embrace Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Alone the master and the slave embrace. I will not tell the banker or the...
Before the Story Lyrics by Leonard Cohen and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself. — II SAMUEL Far from the roof, the child,...
Go by Brooks Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Go by brooks, love, Where fish stare, Go by brooks, I will pass there. Go by rivers, Where eels...
An Orchard of Shore Trees Lyrics by Leonard Cohen An orchard of shore trees precise because of autumn etches its branches in the grey silk river...
It Is Late Afternoon Lyrics by Leonard Cohen It is late afternoon. I have put Beethoven on. It is foolish to impute pain to the intense...
I Wonder How Many People in This City Lyrics by Leonard Cohen I wonder how many people in this city live in furnished rooms. Late at...
You All in White Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Whatever cities are brought down, I will always bring you poems, and the fruit of orchards I pass...
There Are Some Men Lyrics by Leonard Cohen There are some men who should have mountains to bear their names to time. Grave-markers are not high...
If It Were Spring Lyrics by Leonard Cohen If it were Spring and I killed a man, I would change him to leaves and hang him...
The Flowers That I Left in the Ground Lyrics by Leonard Cohen The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for...
Gift Lyrics by Leonard Cohen You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for...
After the Sabbath Prayers Lyrics by Leonard Cohen After the Sabbath prayers The Baal Shem’s butterfly Followed me down the hill. Now the Baal Shem is...
A Kite Is a Victim Lyrics by Leonard Cohen A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough...
Read all The Spice-Box of Earth Album Lyrics by Leonard Cohen below A Kite Is a Victim Lyrics Sabbath Prayers Lyrics Gift Lyrics The Flowers That...
Waiting For Marianne Lyrics by Leonard Cohen I have lost a telephone with your smell in it I am living beside the radio all the stations...
The only tourist in Havana turns his thoughts homeward Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Come, my brothers, let us govern Canada, let us find our serious heads,...
What I’m Doing Here Lyrics by Leonard Cohen I do not know if the world has lied I have lied I do not know if the...
A Note on the Title Lyrics by Leonard Cohen A while ago this book would have been called SUNSHINE FOR NAPOLEON, and earlier still it would...
Read All Flowers For Hitler Album Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Below A Note on the Title Lyrics What I’m Doing Here Lyrics The only tourist in...
This song was inspired by Nico. Sylvie Simmons sums up the song as follows: “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong”, Leonard’s wryly humorous song, inspired by...