Leonard Cohen – Inquiry Into the Nature of Cruelty Lyrics

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 porcelain
like tiny dancing crematoria.

History is on my side, I pleaded,
as the drain drew circles in his wings.
(Had he not been bathed in urine
I’d have rescued him to dry in the wind.)