Leonard Cohen - Queen Victoria

Tekst :

My father and all his tobacco loved you,
I love you too in all your forms,
the slim and lovely virgin floating among German beer,
the mean governess of the huge pink maps,
the solitary mourner of a prince.

Queen Victoria,
I am cold and rainy,
I am dirty as a glass roof in a train station,
I feel like an empty cast iron exhibition,
I want ornaments on everything,
because my love, she gone with other boys.

Queen Victoria,
do you have a punishment under the white lace,
will you be short with her, will you make her read those little Bibles,
will you spank her with a mechanical corset.
I want her pure as power, I want her skin slightly musty with petticoats
will you wash the easy bidet out of her head?

Queen Victoria,
I m not much nourished by modern love,
will you come into my life
with your sorrow and your black carriages,
And your perfect
memories.

Queen Victoria,
the Twentieth Century belongs to you and me.
Let us be two severe giants not less lonely for our partnership,
who discolour test tubes in the halls of Science,
who turn up unwelcome at every World s Fair,
heavy with proverbs and corrections,
confusing the star-dazed tourists
with our incomparable sense of loss.

Inne utwory

  • Diamonds in the mine
  • The window
  • True love leaves no traces
  • Song of Bernadette
  • The stranger song
  • The faith
  • The smokey life
  • Store room
  • One of us cannot be wrong
  • You know who i am
  • Who by fire
  • On that day
  • Heart with no companion
  • The marriage march
  • Our lady of solitude
  • Misty blue
  • Losowe utwory

    Grinder

    Never straight and narrow
    I won t keep in time
    Tend to burn the arrow
    Out of the line

    Been inclined to wander
    Off the beaten track
    That s where there s thunder
    And the wind shouts back

    Grinder

    Savage

    Who gives you the right to come here and tell me
    I have to leave this place my home
    To you it s a jungle, to me it s a kingdom
    Where (my) people are free there to roam
    Born with the stars we are happy...

    Ecstasy of life

    Step back in silence, meet the ecstacy in life
    You shouldn t suffer so much
    Face the enemy within yourself
    Feel this growing anger
    Wash in the pain the gates will not be shut
    To the world of anger
    Feel as much as I feel
    More pain than the growing sorrow

    Lies supposed to break me
    As you always...

    Love me like that

    Well you sold my heart
    And I ll get it back
    But look me in the eye babe
    Tell me why you love me like that
    Why you love me like that… oh oh

    Well I walk this world
    Five times or more...

    Let it go

    [verse:]
    I m to the point where I can t take no more your immaturity
    it adds ton fustrating like those things you say
    actin like you aint feelin me,
    your boys come around then you start thrillin me

    [chorus: 2x]...