Тексты песен: Leonard Cohen

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Democracy: It’s coming through a hole in the air,From those nights in Tiananmen Square.It’s coming from the feelThat this ain’t exactly real,Or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there.From the wars against disorder,From the sirens …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Here It Is: Here is your crownAnd your seal and rings;And here is your loveFor all things. Here is your cart,And your cardboard and piss;And here is your loveFor all of this. May everyone live,And …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Going Home: I love to speak with Leonard He’s a sportsman and a shepherd He’s a lazy bastard Living in a suit But he does say what I tell him Even though it isn’t welcome …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Letters: «The Letters» You never liked to getThe letters that I sent.But now you’ve got the gistOf what my letters meant.You’re reading them again,The ones you didn’t burn.You press them to your lips,My pages of …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Suzanne: Suzanne takes you down to her place near the riverYou can hear the boats go byYou can spend the night beside herAnd you know that she’s half crazyBut that’s why you want to be …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Different Sides: We find ourselves on different sidesOf a line nobody drewThough it all may be one in the higher eyeDown here where we live it is two I to my side call the meek …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни True Love Leaves No Traces: As the mist leaves no scarOn the dark green hillSo my body leaves no scarOn you and never will Through windows in the darkThe children come, the children goLike arrows …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Tower Of Song: Well my friends are gone and my hair is greyI ache in the places where I used to playAnd I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming onI’m just paying my rent …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Love Itself: The light came through the window,Straight from the sun above,And so inside my little roomThere plunged the rays of Love. In streams of light I clearly sawThe dust you seldom see,Out of which …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Show Me The Place: show me the place, where you want your slave to go show me the place, i’ve forgotten i don’t know show me the place where my head is bend and low …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Choices: (Chorus)I’ve had choicesSince the day that I was bornThere were voicesThat told me right from wrongIf I had listenedNo I wouldn’t be here todayLiving and dyingWith the choices I made I was temptedBy an …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Сначала мы возьмём Манхэттен: (Radio announcer’s voice)Was die Attentater betrifft, die in Berlin den Anschlag auf die Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft verubt haben, ist die Polizei einen Schritt weiter gekommen. Die jetzt nach dem Anschlag… They sentenced …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни 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 York is cold, but I like where I’m living There’s music on …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Almost Like The Blues: I saw some people starvingThere was murder, there was rapeTheir villages were burningThey were trying to escapeI couldn’t meet their glancesI was staring at my shoesIt was acid, it was tragicIt …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Closing Time: Ah we’re drinking and we’re dancingand the band is really happeningand the Johnny Walker wisdom running highAnd my very sweet companionshe’s the Angel of Compassionshe’s rubbing half the world against her thighAnd every …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Take This Waltz: Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty womenThere’s a shoulder where Death comes to cryThere’s a lobby with nine hundred windowsThere’s a tree where the doves go to dieThere’s a piece that was …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни ЗНАМЕНИТЫЙ СИНИЙ ПЛАЩ: перевод М. Немцова Четыре утраНа исходе декабрьНу как тебе там?Уже лучше? Пора быНью-Йорк замерзает, ноЯ здесь навечно — иМузыка на Клинтон-СтритЦелый вечерЯ слышал, ты строишьСвой маленький домГде-то в пустынеТебе незачем жить, яНадеюсь, …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни A Singer Must Die: Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess.Is it true you betrayed us? the answer is yes.Then read me the list of the crimes that are mine,I will ask for …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни In My Secret Life: I saw you this morningYou were moving so fastCan’t seem to loosen my gripOn the pastAnd I miss you so muchThere’s no one insideAnd we’re still making loveIn my secret life. …

Оригинальный текст и слова песни Darkness: I caught the darknessIt was drinking from your cupI caught the darknessDrinking from your cupI said, «Is this contagious?»You said, «Just drink it up.» I’ve got no futureI know my days are fewThe presence, …