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Leonard Cohen – If It Were Spring Lyrics
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 from a tree,
a tree in a grove
at the edge of a dune,
where small beasts came
to flee the sun.
Wind would make him
part of song,
and rain would cling
like tiny crystal worlds
upon his branch
of leaf-green skies,
and he would bear the dance
of fragile bone,
brush of wings
against his maps of arteries,
and turn up a yellow-stomached flag
to herald the touring storm.
o my victim,
ou would grow your season
as I grew mine,
under the spell of growth,
an instrument
of the blue sky,
an instrument of the sun,
a palm above the dark, splendid eyes.
What language the city will hear
because of your death,
anguish explain,
sorrow relieve.
Everywhere I see
the world waiting you,
the pens raised, walls prepared,
hands hung above the strings and keys.
And come Autumn
I will spin a net
between your height and earth
to hold your crisp parts.
In the fields and orchards
it must be turning Spring,
look at the faces
clustered around mine.
And I hear
the irrefutable argument of hunger
whispered, spoken, shouted,
but never sung.
I will kill a man this week;
before this week is gone
I will hang him to a tree,
I will see this mercy done.
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