Leonard Cohen – Sing to Fish, Embrace the Beast Lyrics

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 body a horse’s body
Or wings from your backbone.
Sleep as a man beside the sleeping wolves
Without longing for a special sky
To darken and fur your hands.
Animals, do not kill for the human heart
Which under breasts of scale or flesh will cry.
O swallow, be a heart in the wind’s high breast,
River the limbs of the sky with your singing blood.
The dead are beginning to breathe:
I see my father splashing light like a jewelIn the swamp’s black mud.