Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Take This Longing , by - Leonard Cohen. Release date: 22.07.2014
Song language: English
Take This Longing |
| Many men have loved the bells |
| You fastened to the rein |
| And everyone who wanted you |
| They found what they will always want again |
| Your beauty lost to you yourself |
| Just as it was lost to them |
| Oh take this longing from my tongue |
| Whatever useless things these hands have done |
| Let me see your beauty broken down |
| Like you would do for one you love |
| Your body like a searchlight |
| My poverty revealed |
| I would like to try your charity |
| Until you cry, «Now you must try my greed.» |
| And everything depends upon |
| How near you sleep to me |
| Just take this longing from my tongue |
| All the lonely things my hands have done |
| Let me see your beauty broken down |
| Like you would do for one your love |
| Hungry as an archway |
| Through which the troops have passed |
| I stand in ruins behind you |
| With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps |
| I love to see you naked over there |
| Especially from the back |
| Oh take this longing from my tongue |
| All the useless things my hands have done |
| Untie for me your hired blue gown |
| Like you would do for one that you love |
| You’re faithful to the better man |
| I’m afraid that he left |
| So let me judge your love affair |
| In this very room where I have sentenced |
| Mine to death |
| I’ll even wear these old laurel leaves |
| That he’s shaken from his head |
| Just take this longing from my tongue |
| All the useless things my hands have done |
| Let me see your beauty broken down |
| Like you would do for one you love |
| Like you would do for one you love |