Leonard Cohen and Me, Not by the Levee
In a cruciform town
built of stone and sweat
they laid us both down
for the crime of theft
we swam ourselves naked
shook a fist at the moon
where the oily anointed
are past dead too soon
that’s
what you get baby
for wanting to be free
that’s what you get baby
for wanting to be free
I kissed tattooed children
their faceless smiles also
way beyond the power of ten
there on your blessed torso
they came in the night
too afraid of the day
a list of what was right
their fears to allay
and
that’s what we got baby
for
wanting to be free
and
that’s what we got baby
for
wanting to be free
our bodies are our irony
a scorn of deliberate charade
away from that cold cold valley
the fulcrum of us was made
we stole the lonely chastity
giving everything we had
they told us it was blasphemy
Go tell them we were glad
and that’s what we got baby
for wanting to be free
and
that’s what we got baby
between you and me
what are the chords?
ReplyDeleteHee hee, that would take a better man than me - the fourth, the fifth,the minor Fall,the major lift;
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