By the river's dark, I wandered on I lived my life in Babylon And I did forget my holy song And I had no strength in Babylon By the river's dark, where
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
In my secret life In my secret life In my secret life In my secret life I saw you this mornin' You were movin' so fast Can?t seem to loosen my grip On
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
We're drinking and we're dancing And the band is really happening And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high And my very sweet companion She's the angel
Are you back in my life to stay Or is it just for today, oh that you're gonna need me? If it's a thrill you're looking for Honey, I'm flexible, oh yeah
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She stands before you naked You can see it, you can taste it And she comes to you light as the breeze Now you can drink it or you can nurse it It don'
Well, I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul When I am not this hunchback that you see, I sleep beneath the golden hill You who wish to conquer
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 It'
for good, so I never tried And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear Sincerely, L.Cohen
Oh, friends, don't matter if you're a man or a woman If you're in love with somebody These are the words that you gotta learn to say Now, listen carefully
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
O Crown of Light, O Darkened One I never thought we?d meet You kiss my lips and then it?s done I?m back on Boogie Street A sip of wine, a cigarette and
Now, I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this, the
The birds they sang at the break of day "Start again", I heard them say Don't dwell on what has passed away Or what is yet to be Ah, the wars they will
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost
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 Ah, but, lover,
