(Michael) We were chosen, we were chosen Miles and miles apart I to love your kingdom You to love my heart (Angels) We were chosen We do what must What must be ...

(Judy) The birds they sang at break of day Start again, I heard them say Nor dwell on what has passed away Or what is yet to be The wars they will be fought a...

(Everyone) The whole work holds its breath again The marriage ring it shines The billionth trillionth walk begins As another world sighs Sights and best of wis...

Judy) Once I was happy to Roam through the gold and blue Now something haunts me I know it's real Someone returns The desire I feel (Angels) We could have passe...

(Angels) Blindly he worked At his third invention Taking the chances Of one who is lost Feeling his way To a cleaner expression Of whatever it was He stumbled ...

(Michael) Their bodies Triumphant Their power unfurled I know I am nothing And women the world! A slave to their favours Their no and their yes I'm crushed in ...

Let me start with you Miss Shy Bundled up in your mother's lie Tip toe, tip toe Hiding your silky pleasure Miss Shy come to me Along the snowy paths of modesty ...

(Angels) We told you so We told you dear You didn't have To come here The human life Is full of quirks We can't work it out Nothing works It's a lemon This me...

(Angels) Come, sleeper to the window, do you know Us know? Have we changed? Have you seen us here Before? Do you remember long ago You summoned us across the hi...

I built my house beside the wood So I could hear you singing And it was sweet and it was good And love was all beginning Fare thee well my nightingale 'Twas lon...

Some people say It's what we deserve For sins against g-d For crimes in the world I wouldn't know I'm just holding the fort Since that day They wounded New York...

I lit a thin green candle To make you jealous of me, But the room just filled up with mosquitoes They heard that my body was free Then I took the dust of a long...

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me But the room just filled up with mosquitoes They heard that my body was free Then I took the dust from a lo...

All summer long she touched me She gathered in my soul From many a thorn, from many thickets Her fingers, like a weaver's Quick and cool And the light came fro...

The walls of this hotel are paper-thin Last night I heard you making love to him The struggle mouth to mouth and limb to lim The grunt of unity when he came in ...

When they poured across the border I was cautioned to surrender This I could not do I took my gun and vanished I have changed my name so often I've lost my wif...

I saw Jesus on the cross on a hill called Calvary "Do you hate mankind for what they done to you?" He said, "Talk of love not hate, things to do - it's getting ...

I saw Jesus on the cross on a hill called Calvary "Do you hate mankind for what they done to you?" He said, "Talk of love not hate, things to do - it's getting ...

I was walking in new york city and I brushed up against the man in front of me I felt a cardboard placard on his back and when we passed a streetlight, I could ...

I was walking in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of me I felt a cardboard placard on his back And when we passed a streetlight, I could ...

I was walking in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of me I felt a cardboard placard on his back And when we passed a streetlight, I could ...

And who will write love songs for you when I am lord at last and your body is some little highway shrine that all my priests have passed, that all my priests ha...

(A Cohen Poem Set To Music) Queen Victoria, My father and all his tobacco loved you, I love you too in all your forms, the slim and lovely virgin floating amon...

It seems so long ago, Nancy was alone, looking ate the Late Late show through a semi-precious stone In the House of Honesty her father was on trial, in the Hous...

Show me the place, where you want your slave to go Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know Show me the place where my head is bend and low Show me the pl...

What I'll give you since you asked is all my time together Take the rugged sunny days, the warm and rocky weather Take the roads that I have walked along Lookin...

(Let's sing another song, boys, this one has grown old and bitter) Ah his fingernails, I see they're broken, his ships they're all on fire The moneylender's lo...

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on And they brought me their comfort and lat...

Come over to the window, my little darling, I'd like to try to read you palm I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy Before I let you take me home Chorus:...

Come over to the window my little darling I'd like to try to read your palm I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy Before I let you take me home CHORUS: ...

(Written By Warnes, Cohen, Recorded By Warnes) There was a child named Bernadette I heard the story long ago She saw the Queen of Heaven once And kept the visi...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Frank & Louis) Are you still here? What are you waiting for? Your lives to change? An oracle to speak? Some ve...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Michael) We were chosen, we were chosen Miles and miles apart I to love your kingdom You to love my heart (Angel...

I love you, without caring whom you love My hands below the belt, or my hands above in the arms of other men, or in my bed again It's just a man, Taking what he...

The stories of the street are mine The Spanish voices laugh The Cadillacs go creeping down Through the night and the poison gas I lean from mu window sill In th...

The door it opened slowly, my father he came in, I was nine years old And he stood so tall above me, his blue eyes they were shining and his voice was very cold...

The door it opened slowly, my father he came in, I was nine years old And he stood so tall above me, his blue eyes they were shining and his voice was very cold...

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by you can spend the night beside her And you know she's half crazy but that's why ...

Many men have loved the bells you fastened to the rein, and everyone who wanted you they found what they will always want again Your beauty lost to you yourself...

(after Lorca) Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry There's a lobby with nine hundred windows There's a tree where ...

I met a woman long ago her hair the black that black can go, Are you a teacher of the heart? Soft she answered no I met a girl across the sea, her hair the gol...

I was dancin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz when an old friend I happened to see I introduced him to my darlin' and while they were dancin' my friend s...

I was dancing with my darlin' To the Tennessee Waltz When an old friend I happened to see Introduced him to my loved one And while they were waltzing My friend ...

I was dancin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz when an old friend I happened to see I introduced him to my darlin' and while they were dancin' my friend s...

I fought against the bottle, But I had to do it drunk ? Took my diamond to the pawnshop ? But that don?t make it junk I know that I?m forgiven, But I don?t kno...

I fought against the bottle, But I had to do it drunk Took my diamond to the pawnshop But that dont make it junk I know that Im forgiven, But I dont know how I...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") [cf the lyrics to the song "Anthem" on the Cohen album "The Future"] (Judy) The birds they sang at break of day...

cf the lyrics to the song "Anthem" on the Cohen album "The Future"] (Judy) The birds they sang at break of day Start again, I heard them say Nor dw...

I came upon a butcher, he was slaughtering a lamb, I accused him there with his tortured lam He said, "Listen to me, child, I am what I am and you, you are my o...

Now the Captain called me to his bed He fumbled for my hand "Take these silver bars," he said "I'm giving you command" "Command of what, there's no one here The...

I caught the darkness, it was drinking from your cup I caught the darkness drinking from your cup I said is this contagious? You said just drink it up. I said ...

The sea so deep and blind The sun, the wild regret The club, the wheel, the mind, O love, aren't you tired yet? The club, the wheel, the mind O love, aren't you...

Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture Give me absolute control over every living soul A...

It?s going to happen very soon the great event which will end the horror which will end the sorrow next tuesday, when the sun goes down, I will play the moonlig...

One by one, the guests arrive The guests are coming through The open-hearted many The broken-hearted few And no one knows where the night is going And no one k...

And where, where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight I've heard all the wild reports, they can't be right But whose head is this she's dancing with on the threshing...

And where, where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight I've heard all the wild reports, they can't be right But whose head is this she's dancing with on the threshing...

Don?t really know who sent me To raise my voice and say: May the lights in The Land of Plenty Shine on the truth some day I don?t know why I come here, Knowing...

Dont really know who sent me To raise my voice and say: May the lights in The Land of Plenty Shine on the truth some day I dont know why I come here, Knowing a...

How many times did you call me And I knew it was late I left everybody But I never went straight I don't claim to be guilty But I do understand There's a Law, t...

Valkyries) You are the messengers Of celestial machinery You only arrange You cannot change the scenery It is writ in stone And capitals bold You do, you...

You never liked to get The letters that I sent But now you've got the gist Of what my letters meant You're reading them again, The ones you didn't burn You pres...

A wandering canadian, Banned from his hearths, Travelled while crying Travelled while crying In foreign lands One day, sad and pensive, Sitting by the flowing ...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Everyone) The whole work holds its breath again The marriage ring it shines The billionth trillionth walk begi...

I went down to the place Where I knew she lay waiting Under the marble and the snow I said, Mother I'm frightened The thunder and the lightning I'll never come ...

I finally broke into the prison, I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows, all the brave young men they're waiting now to see a si...

When they poured across the border I was cautioned to surrender, this I could not do; I took my gun and vanished I have changed my name so often, I've lost my w...

When they poured across the border I was cautioned to surrender, this I could not do; I took my gun and vanished I have changed my name so often, I've lost my ...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Judy) Once I was happy to Roam through the gold and blue Now something haunts me I know it's real Someone retu...

Judy) Once I was happy to Roam through the gold and blue Now something haunts me I know it's real Someone returns The desire I feel (Angels) ...

It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter I know that kind of man It's hard to h...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Angels) Blindly he worked At his third invention Taking the chances Of one who is lost Feeling his way To a c...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Michael) Their bodies Triumphant Their power unfurled I know I am nothing And women the world! A slave to the...

Now the Swan it floated on the English river Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened wide A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer and the judges watched ...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Michael) It's late, it's very late How did it get so late? (Judy) What was it we were thinking of? (Michael ...

Michael) It's late, it's very late How did it get so late? (Judy) What was it we were thinking of? (Michael & Judy) We didn't want this, ...

Why do you stand by the window Abandoned to beauty and pride The thorn of the night in your bosom The spear of the age in your side Lost in the rages of fragran...

There is a war between the rich and poor, a war between the man and the woman There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there ...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") Let me start with you Miss Shy Bundled up in your mother's lie Tip toe, tip toe Hiding your silky pleasure Miss...

[Dedicated to A M Klein (1909-1972)] Hurt once and for all into silence A long pain ending without a song to prove it Who could stand beside you so close to Ed...

(originally sung by the BeeGees) There's a light, a very special light, never ever shone on me I would like my whole life to be, with someone like you with som...

There's a light, a very special light, never ever shone on me I would like my whole life to be, with someone like you with someone with someone like You don't...

Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past We swore to each other then that our love would surely last You kept right on loving, I went on a fast, now I am ...

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on I'm just paying my rent ever...

As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will Through windows in the dark The children come, the children g...

I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I?d be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the ...

From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play a greater part This is the faith from which we start: Men shall know co...

Baby, I've been waiting I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time and I waited half my life away There were lots of invitations, and I know you sent...

(Written By Warnes, Cohen, Recorded By Warnes) way down, way way down way way down deep you're got me way down, way way down, way way down deep you're got me w...

way down, way way down way way down deep you're got me way down, way way down, way way down deep you're got me way down, way down deep I wander with you in my s...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Angels) We told you so We told you dear You didn't have To come here The human life Is full of quirks We can'...

Angels) We told you so We told you dear You didn't have To come here The human life Is full of quirks We can't work it out Nothing works It's a lemon...

(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") (Angels) We told you so We told you dear You didn't have To come here The human life Is full of quirks We can'...

Whither thou goest I will go Whither thou lodgest I will lodge Thy people shall be, My people Whither thou goest I will go Whither thou goest I will go Whithe...

And who by fire, who by water, who in the sunshine, who in the night time, who by high ordeal, who by common trial, who in your merry merry month of may, who by...

Whither thou goest I will go Whither thou lodgest I will lodge Thy people shall be, My people Whither thou goest I will go Whither thou goest I will go Whither ...

Why don't you try to do without him? Why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your thron...

Why don't you try to do without him? Why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your thron...