Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Leonard Cohen Chord and Tabs

AVALANCHE Well I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul; when I am not this hunchback that you see, ...

DIAMONDS IN THE MINE The woman in blue, she's asking for revenge, Man in white -- that's you -- says he has no friends. T...
DIAMONDS IN THE MINE Chords and Tabs

DRESS REHEARSAL RAG Four o'clock in the afternoon and I didn't feel like very much. I said to myself, "Where are yo...
DRESS REHEARSAL RAG Chords and Tabs

FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New...
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JOAN OF ARC Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc as she came riding through the dark; no moon to keep her ar...

LAST YEAR'S MAN The rain falls down on last year's man, that's a jew's harp on the table, that's a crayon in his han...
LAST YEAR'S MAN Chords and Tabs

LOVE CALLS YOU BY YOUR NAME You thought that it could never happen to all the people that you became, your body lost in legend, ...
LOVE CALLS YOU BY YOUR NAME Chords and Tabs

SING ANOTHER SONG, BOYS Ah his fingernails, I see they're broken, his ships they're all on fire. The moneylender's lovely li...

HEY, THAT'S NO WAY TO SAY GOODBYE (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, y...

MASTER SONG (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') I believe that you heard your master sing when I was si...
MASTER SONG Chords and Tabs

ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me. But the room just filled up with mosquitos, ...
ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG Chords and Tabs

SISTERS OF MERCY (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone....
SISTERS OF MERCY Chords and Tabs

SO LONG, MARIANNE (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') Come over to the window, my little darling, I'd like to...

STORIES OF THE STREET (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') The stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices ...
STORIES OF THE STREET Chords and Tabs

SUZANNE (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You ...
SUZANNE Chords and Tabs

TEACHERS (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') I met a woman long ago her hair the black that black ca...

THE STRANGER SONG (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who sa...
THE STRANGER SONG Chords and Tabs

WINTER LADY (from the album 'SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN') Trav'ling lady, stay awhile until the night is over. I'...
WINTER LADY Chords and Tabs

A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP The ponies run, the girls are young, The odds are there to beat. You win a while, and then it’s do...
A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP Chords and Tabs

ALEXANDRA LEAVING Suddenly the night has grown colder. The god of love preparing to depart. Alexandra hoisted on his s...

BOOGIE STREET O Crown of Light, O Darkened One, I never thought we’d meet. You kiss my lips, and then you're gon...

BY THE RIVERS DARK By the rivers dark I wandered on. I lived my life in Babylon. And I did forget My holy song: And I ...

HERE IT IS Here is your crown And your seal and rings; And here is your love For all things. Here is your cart...

IN MY SECRET LIFE I saw you this morning. You were moving so fast. Can’t seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I m...
IN MY SECRET LIFE Chords and Tabs

LOVE ITSELF The light came through the window, Straight from the sun above, And so inside my little room There p...

THAT DON'T MAKE IT JUNK I fought against the bottle, But I had to do it drunk – Took my diamond to the pawnshop – But th...

THE LAND OF PLENTY Don’t really know who sent me To raise my voice and say: May the lights in The Land of Plenty Shin...
THE LAND OF PLENTY Chords and Tabs

YOU HAVE LOVED ENOUGH I said I’d be your lover. You laughed at what I said. I lost my job forever. I was counted with th...

A SINGER MUST DIE Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess. Is it true you betrayed us? The answer is Yes. The...

CHELSEA HOTEL NO. 2 I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, you were talking so brave and so sweet, giving me head on ...

FIELD COMMANDER COHEN Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy. Wounded in the line of duty, parachuting acid ...
FIELD COMMANDER COHEN Chords and Tabs

I TRIED TO LEAVE YOU I tried to leave you, I don't deny I closed the book on us, at least a hundred times. I'd wake up ev...
I TRIED TO LEAVE YOU Chords and Tabs

IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED You were the promise at dawn, I was the morning after. You were Jesus Christ my Lord, I was the mone...
IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED Chords and Tabs

LEAVING GREEN SLEEVES Alas, my love, you did me wrong, to cast me out discourteously, for I have loved you so long, deligh...

LOVER LOVER LOVER I asked my father, I said, "Father change my name." The one I'm using now it's covered up ...
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TAKE THIS LONGING Many men have loved the bells you fastened to the rein, and everyone who wanted you they found what ...
TAKE THIS LONGING Chords and Tabs

THERE IS A WAR There is a war between the rich and poor, a war between the man and the woman. There is a war betwee...

WHO BY FIRE And who by fire, who by water, who in the sunshine, who in the night time, who by high ordeal, who b...
WHO BY FIRE Chords and Tabs

WHY DON'T YOU TRY Why don't you try to do without him? Why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands f...

AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong Tha...

EVERYBODY KNOWS Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows ...
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FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN (Radio announcer's voice) Was die Attentäter betrifft, die in Berlin den Anschlag auf die Deutsch-A...
FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN Chords and Tabs

I CAN'T FORGET I stumbled out of bed I got ready for the struggle I smoked a cigarette And I tightened up my gut I ...

I'M YOUR MAN If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a ...
I'M YOUR MAN Chords and Tabs

JAZZ POLICE Can you tell me why the bells are ringing? Nothing's happened in a million years I've been sitting h...

TAKE THIS WALTZ Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry There's a lobby w...

TOWER OF SONG TOWER OF SONG Leonard Cohen My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in the places where I...
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ALWAYS (By Irving Berlin) (Oh friends, ... don't matter if you're a man or a woman. If you're in love wit...

ANTHEM The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has passed ...
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BE FOR REAL 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 thri...

CLOSING TIME Ah we're drinking and we're dancing and the band is really happening and the Johnnie Walker wisdom r...
CLOSING TIME Chords and Tabs

DEMOCRACY It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the f...

LIGHT AS THE BREEZE She stands before you naked you can see it, you can taste it, and she comes to you light as the bree...

TACOMA TRAILER instrumental ...

THE FUTURE Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life it's lonely here, there's no one left ...
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WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day. I didn't see the time, I waited half my li...

A BUNCH OF LONESOME HEROS A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes were smoking out along the open road; the night was ...
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A PARTISAN When they poured across the border I was cautioned to surrender, this I could not do; I took my gun ...

BIRD ON THE WIRE Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a ...

LADY MIDNIGHT I came by myself to a very crowded place; I was looking for someone who had lines in her face. I fou...
LADY MIDNIGHT Chords and Tabs

SEEMS SO LONG AGO, NANCY It seems so long ago, Nancy was alone, looking ate the Late Late show through a semi-precious stone....

STORY OF ISAAC The door it opened slowly, my father he came in,was nine years old. And he stood so tall above me, h...
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THE BUTCHER I came upon a butcher, he was slaughtering a lamb, I accused him there with his tortured lamb. He sa...

THE OLD REVOLUTION I finally broke into the prison, I found my place in the chain. Even damnation is poisoned with rain...
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TONIGHT WILL BE FINE Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past. We swore to each other then that our love would sure...
TONIGHT WILL BE FINE Chords and Tabs

YOU KNOW WHO I AM I cannot follow you, my love, you cannot follow me. I am the distance you put between all of the mom...
YOU KNOW WHO I AM Chords and Tabs

IMPROVISATION instrumental ...

MINUTE PROLOGUE I've been listening to all the dissention. I've been listening to all the pain. And I feel that no ...
MINUTE PROLOGUE Chords and Tabs

NANCY It seems so long ago, Nancy was alone, looking ate the Late Late show through a semi-precious stone....

PASSING THROUGH I saw Jesus on the cross on a hill called Calvary "Do you hate mankind for what they done to yo...
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PLEASE DON'T PASS ME BY (A DISGRACE) I was walking in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I felt a cardboard p...

QUEEN VICTORIA Queen Victoria, My father and all his tobacco loved you, I love you too in all your forms, the slim ...

BALLAD OF THE ABSENT MARE Say a prayer for the cowboy His mare's run away And he'll walk til he finds her His darling, his str...

CAME SO FAR FOR BEAUTY I came so far for beauty left so much behind My patience and my family My masterpiece unsigned I tho...

HUMBLED IN LOVE Do you remember all of those pledges That we pledged in the passionate night Ah they're soiled now, ...

OUR LADY OF SOLITUDE All summer long she touched me She gathered in my soul From many a thorn, from many thickets Her fin...

THE GUESTS One by one, the guests arrive The guests are coming through The open-hearted many The broken-hearted...

THE GYPSY'S WIFE And where, where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight I've heard all the wild reports, they can't be righ...

THE LOST CANADIAN A wandering Canadian, banned from his hearths, travelled while crying travelled while crying in fore...

THE SMOKEY LIFE I've never seen your eyes so wide I've never seen your appetite quite this occupied Elsewhere is you...

THE TRAITOR Now the Swan it floated on the English river Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened wide A sun tanned...
THE TRAITOR Chords and Tabs

THE WINDOW Why do you stand by the window Abandoned to beauty and pride The thorn of the night in your bosom Th...

Because Of Words and music by Leonard Cohen Because of a few songs Wherein I spoke of their mystery, Women hav...

Dear Heather Words and music by Leonard Cohen Dear Heather Please walk by me again With a drink in your hand And...

Go No More A-Roving Words by Lord Byron (1788-1824) Music by Leonard Cohen So we'll go no more a-roving So late into th...

Morning Glory No words this time? No words. No, there are times when nothing can be done. Not this time. Is it cen...

Nightingale Dedicated to Carl Anderson (1945-2004) Words and music by Leonard Cohen and Anjani Thomas I built m...

On That Day Words and music by Leonard Cohen and Anjani Thomas Some people say It's what we deserve For sins ag...

Tennessee Waltz Written by Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King Additional verse: Leonard Cohen I was dancing with my darl...
Tennessee Waltz Chords and Tabs

The Faith (Based on a Québecois folk song) Words and music by Leonard Cohen The sea so deep and blind The su...

The Letters Words and music by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson You never liked to get The letters that I sent...

There For You Words and music by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson When it all went down And the pain came throug...

To A Teacher Dedicated to A. M. Klein (1909-1972) Words and music by Leonard Cohen (words from Spice-Box of the E...

Undertow Words and music by Leonard Cohen I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the ...

Villanelle For Our Time Words by Frank Scott (1899-1985) Music by Leonard Cohen From bitter searching of the heart, Quicken...

COMING BACK TO YOU Maybe I'm still hurting I can't turn the other cheek But you know that I still love you It's just th...
COMING BACK TO YOU Chords and Tabs

DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in...

HALLELUJAH Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen (from Leonard Cohen Live in Concert) I've heard there was a special co...
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HEART WITH NO COMPANION I greet you from the other side Of sorrow and despair With a love so vast and shattered It will reac...

HUNTER'S LULLABY Your father's gone a-hunting He's deep in the forest so wild And he cannot take his wife with him He...

IF IT BE YOUR WILL If it be your will That I speak no more And my voice be still As it was before I will speak no more ...
IF IT BE YOUR WILL Chords and Tabs

NIGHT COMES ON I went down to the place Where I knew she lay waiting Under the marble and the snow I said, Mother I...
NIGHT COMES ON Chords and Tabs

THE CAPTAIN Now the Captain called me to his bed He fumbled for my hand "Take these silver bars," he s...

THE LAW How many times did you call me And I knew it was late I left everybody But I never went straight I d...

DEATH OF A LADIES' MAN Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread "I never even knew how much I wanted...

DON'T GO HOME WITH YOUR HARD-ON I was born in a beauty salon My father was a dresser of hair My mother was a girl you could call on ...

FINGERPRINTS I touched you once too often Now I don't know who I am My fingerprints were missing When I wiped awa...

I LEFT A WOMAN WAITING I left a woman waiting I met her sometime later She said, I see your eyes are dead What happened to ...

IODINE I needed you, I knew I was in danger of losing what I used to think was mine You let me love you til...

MEMORIES Frankie Lane, he was singing Jezebel I pinned an Iron Cross to my lapel I walked up to the tallest a...
MEMORIES Chords and Tabs

PAPER THIN MOTEL The walls of this hotel are paper-thin Last night I heard you making love to him The struggle mouth ...

TRUE LOVE LEAVES NO TRACES As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will T...

NEVER ANY GOOD I was never any good at loving you I was never any good at coming through for you You're going to fe...

Song of Bernadette There was a child named Bernadette I heard the story long ago She saw the queen of heaven once And k...
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THE GREAT EVENT It's going to happen very soon. The great event which will end the horror. Which will end the sorrow...

The Partisan The Partisan When they poured across the border I was cautioned to surrender, This i could not do; I...
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