Leonard Cohen – Lover Lover Lover Lyrics

From the album “New Skin For The Old Ceremony”, this song is a dialogue between a man and God.
The man is complaining about his life, but for each complaint God denies helping the singer, maybe because of free will.

During a live performance on French television, Cohen introduces the song by stating (in French) that he wrote the song for the Egyptians and the Israelis during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At that time, Cohen went to Israel from his home in Greece to volunteer on a kibbutz to help with food distribution but was quickly recognized and asked to play for the troops on the front which he did for 33 days , and thus witnessed the war. This album came out the following year.

Lover Lover Lover Lyrics by Leonard Cohen

[Verse 1]
I asked my father
I said, “Father, change my name
The one I’m using now it’s covered up
With fear and filth and cowardice and shame.”

[Chorus]
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
[Verse 2]
He said, “I locked you in this body
I meant it as a kind of trial
You can use it for a weapon
Or to make some woman smile.”

[Chorus]
Yeah and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me

[Verse 3]
“Then let me start again,” I cried
“Please let me start again
I want a face that’s fair this time
I want a spirit that is calm.”

[Chorus]
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me

[Verse 4]
“I never turned aside,” he said
“I never walked away
It was you who built the temple
It was you who covered up my face.”
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[Chorus]
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me

[Verse 5]
“And may the spirit of this song
May it rise up pure and free
May it be a shield for you
A shield against the enemy.”

[Chorus]
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me

[Outro]
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
[Lost/dropped verse]
I went down to the desert
To help my brothers fight
I know that they weren’t wrong
I know that they weren’t right
But bones must stand up straight and walk
And blood must move around
And men go making ugly lines
Around the holy ground