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Leonard Cohen
Songs from a Room
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Leonard Cohen’s second studio album
Release date: April 7 1969
Studio: Columbia Studio A Nashville
-- Track listing --
1. Bird on the Wire
2. Story of Isaac
3. A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes
4. The Partisan
5. Seems So Long Ago Nancy
6. The Old Revolution
7. The Butcher
8. You Know Who I Am
9. Lady Midnight
10. Tonight Will Be Fine
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1. Bird on the Wire
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
[Verse 1]
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old-fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
[Chorus]
If I if I have been unkind
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you
[Verse 3]
Like a baby stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee
[Chorus]
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me "you must not ask for so much"
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me "hey why not ask for more?"
Oh like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
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2. Story of Isaac
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
Specific chord voicings:
E7 022130
C* 032013
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
The door it opened slowly
My father he came in
I was nine years old.
And he stood so tall above me
His blue eyes they were shining
And his voice was very cold.
[Chorus]
He said "I've had a vision
And you know I'm strong and holy
I must do what I've been told."
So he started up the mountain
I was running he was walking
And his axe was made of gold.
[Verse 2]
Well the trees they got much smaller
The lake a lady's mirror
We stopped to drink some wine.
Then he threw the bottle over.
Broke a minute later
And he put his hand on mine.
[Chorus]
Thought I saw an eagle
But it might have been a vulture
I never could decide.
Then my father built an altar
He looked once behind his shoulder
He knew I would not hide.
[Verse 3]
You who build these altars now
To sacrifice these children
You must not do it anymore.
A scheme is not a vision
And you never have been tempted
By a demon or a god.
[Chorus]
You who stand above them now
Your hatchets blunt and bloody
You were not there before
When I lay upon the mountain
And my father's hand was trembling
With the beauty of the word.
[Verse 4]
And if you call me brother now
Forgive me if I inquire
"just according to whose plan?"
When it all comes down to dust
I will kill you if I must
I will help you if I can.
[Chorus]
When it all comes down to dust
I will help you if I must
I will kill you if I can.
And mercy on our uniform
Man of peace or man of war
The peacock spreads his fan.
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3. A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
[Verse 1]
A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes
Were smoking out along the open road;
The night was very dark and thick between them
Each man beneath his ordinary load.
[Chorus]
"I'd like to tell my story "
Said one of them so young and bold
"I'd like to tell my story
Before I turn into gold."
[Verse 2]
But no one really could hear him
The night so dark and thick and green;
Well I guess that these heroes must always live there
Where you and I have only been.
[Chorus]
Put out your cigarette my love
You've been alone too long;
And some of us are very hungry now
To hear what it is you've done that was so wrong.
[Verse 3]
I sing this for the crickets
I sing this for the army
I sing this for your children
And for all who do not need me.
[Chorus]
"I'd like to tell my story "
Said one of them so bold
"Oh yes I'd like to tell my story
'Cause you know I feel I'm turning into gold."
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4. The Partisan
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie & Anna Marly
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This I could not do
I took my gun and vanished.
I have changed my name so often
I've lost my wife and children
But I have many friends
And some of them are with me
[Verse 2]
An old woman gave us shelter
Kept us hidden in the garret
Then the soldiers came
She died without a whisper
There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
But I must go on
The frontiers are my prison
[Chorus]
Oh the wind the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows
[Verse 1]
Les Allemands étaient chez moi
Ils me dirent "résigne toi"
Mais je n'ai pas peur
J'ai repris mon âme âme âme
J'ai changé cent fois de nom
J'ai perdu femme et enfants
Mais j'ai tant d'amis
J'ai la France entière entière entière
[Verse 2]
Un vieil homme dans un grenier
Pour la nuit nous a caché
Les Allemands l'ont pris
Il est mort sans surprise
[Chorus]
Oh the wind the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows
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5. Seems So Long Ago Nancy
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
Specific chord voicings:
Dmaj7 x57675
C#m7 x46454
E7 022130
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
It seems so long ago
Nancy was alone
Looking at the Late Late show
Through a semi-precious stone.
[Chorus]
In the House of Honesty
Her father was on trial
In the House of Mystery
There was no one at all
There was no one at all.
[Verse 2]
It seems so long ago
None of us were strong
Nancy wore green stockings
And she slept with everyone.
[Chorus]
She never said she'd wait for us
Although she was alone
I think she fell in love for us
In nineteen sixty one
In nineteen sixty one.
[Verse 3]
It seems so long ago
Nancy was alone
A forty five beside her head
An open telephone.
[Chorus]
We told her she was beautiful
We told her she was free
But none of us would meet her in
The House of Mystery
The House of Mystery.
[Verse 4]
And now you look around you
See her everywhere
Many use her body
Many comb her hair.
[Chorus]
In the hollow of the night
When you are cold and numb
You hear her talking freely then
She's happy that you've come
She's happy that you've come.
[Outro]
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6. The Old Revolution
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
[Verse 1]
I finally broke into the prison
I found my place in the chain.
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
All the brave young men
They're waiting now to see a signal
Which some killer will be lighting for pay.
[Chorus]
Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
You whom I cannot betray.
[Verse 2]
I fought in the old revolution
On the side of the ghost and the King.
Of course I was very young
And I thought that we were winning;
I can't pretend I still feel very much like singing
As they carry the bodies away.
[Chorus]
Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
You whom I cannot betray.
[Verse 3]
Lately you've started to stutter
As though you had nothing to say.
To all of my architects let me be traitor.
Now let me say I myself gave the order
To sleep and to search and to destroy.
[Chorus]
Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
You whom I cannot betray.
[Verse 4]
Yes you who are broken by power
You who are absent all day
You who are kings for the sake of your children's story
The hand of your beggar is burdened down with money
The hand of your lover is clay.
[Chorus]
Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
You whom I cannot betray.
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7. The Butcher
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
I came upon a butcher
He was slaughtering a lamb
I accused him there
With his tortured lamb.
He said "Listen to me child
I am what I am
And you you are my only son."
[Verse 2]
Well I found a silver needle
I put it into my arm.
It did some good
Did some harm.
But the nights were cold
And it almost kept me warm
How come the night is long?
[Verse 3]
I saw some flowers growing up
Where that lamb fell down;
Was I supposed to praise my Lord
Make some kind of joyful sound?
He said "Listen listen to me now
I go round and round
And you you are my only child."
[Verse 4]
Do not leave me now
Do not leave me now
I'm broken down
From a recent fall.
Blood upon my body
And ice upon my soul
Lead on my son 'tis your world.
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8. You Know Who I Am
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
[Intro]
| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
[Verse 1]
I cannot follow you my love
You cannot follow me.
I am the distance you put between
All of the moments that we will be.
[Chorus]
You know who I am
You've stared at the sun
Well I am the one who loves
Changing from nothing to one.
[Interlude]
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| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
[Verse 2]
Sometimes I need you naked
Sometimes I need you wild
I need you to carry my children in
And I need you to kill a child.
[Chorus]
You know who I am
You've stared at the sun
Well I am the one who loves
Changing from nothing to one.
[Interlude]
| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
[Verse 3]
If you should ever track me down
I will surrender there
And I will leave with you one broken man
Whom I will teach you to repair.
[Chorus]
You know who I am
You've stared at the sun
Well I am the one who loves
Changing from nothing to one.
[Interlude]
| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
| Asus2 | Asus4 | Asus2 | |
[Verse 1]
I cannot follow you my love
You cannot follow me.
I am the distance you put between
All of the moments that we will be.
[Chorus]
You know who I am
You've stared at the sun
Well I am the one who loves
Changing from nothing to one.
[Outro]
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8. Lady Midnight
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
Specific chord voicings:
C X32013
Fadd9 103213
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
G Fadd9 C
I came by myself to a very crowded place;
G Fadd9 C
I was looking for someone who had lines in her face.
I found her there but she was past all concern;
I asked her to hold me I said "Lady unfold me "
But she scorned me and she told me
I was dead and I could never return.
[Verse 2]
Well I argued all night like so many have before
Saying "Whatever you give me I seem to need so much more."
Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor
She said "Don't try to use me or slyly refuse me
Just win me or lose me
It is this that the darkness is for."
[Chorus]
I cried "Oh Lady Midnight I fear that you grow old
The stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold."
"If we cry now " she said "it will just be ignored."
So I walked through the morning sweet early morning
I could hear my lady calling
"You've won me you've won me my lord
You've won me you've won me my lord
Yes you've won me you've won me my lord
Ah you've won me you've won me my lord
Ah you've won me you've won me my lord."
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10. Tonight Will Be Fine
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Tuning: Standard
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen
[Verse 1]
Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past
We swore to each other then that our love would surely last
You kept right on loving I went on a fast
Now I am too thin and your love is too vast
[Chorus]
But I know from your eyes
And I know from your smile
That tonight will be fine will be fine will be fine
Will be fine for a while
[Verse 2]
I choose the rooms that I live in with care
The windows are small and the walls almost bare
There's only one bed and there's only one prayer
I listen all night for your step on the stair
[Chorus]
But I know from your eyes
And I know from your smile
That tonight will be fine will be fine will be fine
Will be fine for a while
[Verse 3]
Oh sometimes I see her undressing for me
She's the soft naked lady love meant her to be
And she's moving her body so brave and so free
If I've got to remember that's a fine memory
[Chorus]
But I know from your eyes
And I know from your smile
That tonight will be fine will be fine will be fine
Will be fine for a while
(moins de barrés)