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...
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...
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...
Teachers Lyrics by Leonard Cohen [Verse 1] I met a woman long ago Her hair the black that black can go Are you a teacher of...
Presuming this song to be inspired, at least in part, by Leonard Cohen’s 1961 Havana Adventure, Cohen’s contextualization of the trip to Mark Rowland in Musician...
On the 2009 Greatest Hits compilation textbook, Leonard wrote: This song arises from an over-used bed in the Penn Terminal Hotel in 1966. The room is...
Marianne is Marianne Ihlen, ex-wife of the Norwegian author Axel Jensen, who was a friend of Leonard. Leonard lived with Marianne in Greece together, in the...
Loosely based on the 1955 film The Man with the Golden Arm, The Stranger Song explores the problem of commitment between a man and a woman...
Can’t describe it better than Leonard Cohen: That’s the only song I wrote in one sitting. The melody I had worked on for some time. I...
Master Song Lyrics by Leonard Cohe [Verse 1] I believe that you heard your master sing When I was sick in bed I suppose that he...