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(from the album 'SONGS OF Leonard Cohen') |
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Come over to the window, my little darling, |
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I'd like to try to read your palm. |
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I used to think |
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I was some kind of |
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Gypsy boybefore |
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I let you take me home. |
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Now so long, |
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Marianne, it's time that we beganto laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. |
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Well you know that |
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I love to live with you,but you make me forget so very much. |
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I forget to pray for the angelsand then the angels forget to pray for us. |
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Now so long, |
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Marianne, it's time that we began ... |
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We met when we were almost youngdeep in the green lilac park. |
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You held on to me like |
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I was a crucifix,as we went kneeling through the dark. |
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Oh so long, |
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Marianne, it's time that we began ... |
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Your letters they all say that you're beside me now. |
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Then why do |
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I feel alone? |
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I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider webis fastening my ankle to a stone. |
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Now so long, |
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Marianne, it's time that we began ... |
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For now I need your hidden love. |
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I'm cold as a new razor blade. |
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You left when |
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I told you |
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I was curious, |
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I never said that |
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I was brave. |
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Oh so long, |
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Marianne, it's time that we began ... |
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Oh, you are really such a pretty one. |
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I see you've gone and changed your name again. |
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And just when |
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I climbed this whole mountainside,to wash my eyelids in the rain! |
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Oh so long, |
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Marianne, it's time that we began ... |
