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Leonard Cohen - The Traitor Lyrics

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  • 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 us from the other side
  • I told my mother mother I must leave you
  • Preserve my room but do not shed a tear
  • Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
  • It was half my fault and half the atmosphere
  • But the rose I sickened with a scarlet fever
  • And the swan I tempted with a sense of shame
  • She said at last I was her finest lover
  • And if she withered I would be to blame
  • The judges said you missed it by a fraction
  • Rise up and brace your troops for the attack
  • Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action
  • Oh see the men of action falling back
  • But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment
  • I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
  • My falsity had stung me like a hornet
  • The poison sank and it paralysed my will
  • I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers
  • That they had been deserted from above
  • So on battlefields from here to barcelona
  • Im listed with the enemies of love
  • And long ago she said I must be leaving,
  • Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
  • You can move it up and down and when Im sleeping
  • Run some wire through that rose and wind the swan
  • So daily I renew my idle duty
  • I touch her here and there -- I know my place
  • I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty
  • And people call me traitor to my face

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