Leonard Cohen - Take This Longing Lyrics
Many men have loved the bellsYou fastened to the rein,And everyone who wanted youThey found what they will always want again.Your beauty lost to you yourselfJust as it was lost to them.Oh take this longing from my tongue,Whatever useless things these hands have done.Let me see your beauty broken downLike you would do for one you love.Your body like a searchlightMy poverty revealed,I would like to try your charityUntil you cry, now you must try my greed.And everything depends uponHow near you sleep to meJust take this longing from my tongueAll the lonely things my hands have done.Let me see your beauty broken downLike you would do for one your love.Hungry as an archwayThrough which the troops have passed,I stand in ruins behind you,With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps.I love to see you ***** over thereEspecially from the back.Oh take this longing from my tongue,All the useless things my hands have done,Untie for me your hired blue gown,Like you would do for one that you love.Youre faithful to the better man,Im afraid that he left.So let me judge your love affairIn this very room where I have sentencedMine to death.Ill even wear these old laurel leavesThat hes shaken from his head.Just take this longing from my tongue,All the useless things my hands have done,Let me see your beauty broken down,Like you would do for one you love.Like you would do for one you love.
