Nevermind (Leonard Cohen)

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Untouchable Face

Soul For Sale (Mark 8:36)

They said that I could be
What I wanted to be
As long as they made me
How they want me to be

Eve knew the tree needed shaking
This world is for the taking
And its knees are for breaking
Nothing is for free

No matter what words you’re saying
You can’t get rich just from praying
So when it’s your soul they’re weighing
Set the price up high

If you can replace your feeling
With all the money you reel in
You’ll soon be believing
God’s just a dollar sign

At night when you are dreaming
You cannot hear the screaming
Of paupers and heathens
Who live on bread and wine

I can have it all
Eat the world whole
He who rises highest
Has the furthest to fall
I can have it all
I’ll take the world whole
I’ll take the highest bid
For my soul

Everyone who’s been hated
Knows the hearts overrated
The God of love is outdated
Fallen into myth

Everyone on the street
Who has been beat on repeat
Would lie and cheat
For life as a gift

Everyone in the palace
Knows the truth of life’s balance
It only happens
If you pay the price

Everyone who’s been broken
Has their eyes forced open
And some are awoken
It don’t pay to be nice

I can have it all
Eat the world whole
He who rises highest
Has the furthest to fall
I can have it all
I’ll take the world whole
I’ll take the highest bid
For my soul

Wait a little bit longer
When the world falls upon you
You will be stronger
Than you were before

Each time you get sickened
Your skin will thicken
Twice shy is once bitten
Now it’s three or four

If your will has not weakened
All your pockets will deepen
You should never feel cheapened
When you can sell some more

I can have it all
Eat the world whole
He who rises highest
Has the furthest to fall
I can have it all
I’ll take the world whole
I’ll take the highest bid
For my soul
I can have it all
Eat the world whole
He who rises highest
Has the furthest to fall
I can have it all
I’ll take the world whole
I’ll take the highest bid
At the auction for my soul



Soul For Sale (Mark 8:36)

Only Dreaming
Close your eyes and you will see me
Fall into a moon-kissed evening
We can sleep and love so deeply
Even if it’s only dreaming

Close your eyes and you will feel me
Holding you into the evening
We can swim and love so deeply
Even if it’s only dreaming

Close your eyes and you will breathe me
Fragrant air of a Summer’s evening
We can dance and love so deeply
Even if it’s only dreaming

Close your eyes and you’ll be with me
Eternity in the shape of evening
We can love (love love) so deeply
Even if it’s only dreaming

Open your eyes and you will kill me
Remember all those dying evenings
We could bite and tear so deeply
At that love that we were dreaming

We can turn back time; we can smile again
We can trace the line; we can kill the pain
We can still be fine; we can lose all shame
We can both decide there’s no need for blame
We can redefine: give love a whole new name
We can fight the tide or we can drown in the rain
(but we’d be lying)

Why did we do the things that we’d do?
How could we be the way that we’d be?
I won’t lie; I won’t lie to you
If you don’t; if you don’t lie to me


Only Dreaming

First 'live' recording...

2-1=0
Insta ‘til midnight every night
Haunting starts at the dark of twilight
Can’t seem to get you from my mind’s eye
Nothing looks better in hindsight
Why can’t we make things all right?
I know I’d take him in a fight
Who said it’s not black or white
Never lived a day in my life
Never loved a day in my life
Never felt its cold and cruel bite
Never died a day in my life
Never felt the sting as their heart met the knife

I can’t say I’m good at maths
But I can see two becomes one
But when this one ain’t made to last
Then two minus one equals none

I saw you the other day
Laughing as you walked away
Wondered just what he had to say
To make you smile in that way
If I only could have stayed
I would have gone and made him pay
Who said this world is always grey
Never had to live through my heartbreak
Never loved through my heartbreak
Never took what I had to take
Never died from my heartbreak
Never got crushed beneath the world’s weight

I can’t say I’m good at maths
But I can see two becomes one
But when this one ain’t made to last
Then two minus one equals none

Life is like a see-saw
Up one day and then feeble
How can love hurt people?
Because love is evil
Hearts should be made illegal
Hearts are way too lethal
Black and white is what it feels
Magpies are made to take and steal
Love is a god that sees us all
Love is a god that beats us all
There is not a sequel
Two minus one equals


2-1=0

Live Again
Everytime I see your face
Everytime I see you smile
Even when I’m feeling pain
I know everything will be worthwhile again

Even on the darkest day
You make me feel alive again
You help me cast aside the pain
You help me learn to love to live again

Never seen memories come and go like falling leaves
All we’ve done in history will last for our eternity
As long as I have breath in me, so long will my love live for thee

Never thought I would be falling in love so madly
Here I am happily, happy that you’re here with me
As long as I have eyes to see, there’ll be no doubt that I love thee

Live again
You make me want to live again
Live again 
You make me want to live again

Never felt so lucky fate came down and blessed me
Showing me your beauty, I was struck down instantly
When you crossed paths with me you washed away cruel tragedy
You renewed my family, made a fool of gravity
I got so high that I could die so happily

Live again
You make me want to live again
Live again 
You make me want to live again

Everytime I see your face
Everytime I see you smile
Even when I’m feeling pain
I know everything will be worthwhile again




Live Again

God of the Broken
Listen up, boy; you’d better behave
Or you’ll soon be digging your own grave
I’m his Master’s voice; you’re just a slave
When I see you drowning, I’ll give you a wave

I hold the lease on the rest of your days
I can make you bleed in infinite ways
A pound of flesh hardly ever pays
The scars I will give you will always remain

Call me the God of the Broken and Lost
I live in the past of a place that once was

I own your freedom that all humans claim
I’ll see it leaking into the drain
The arrows never miss; I don’t need to aim
My hands remain clean of invisible stains

You deal in labour; I deal in pain
Treat me like a god who has loaded the game
My name is master; a number’s your name
When your world burns, I am the flame

Call me the God of the Broken and Lost
I’ll raise the price and I’ll lower the cost

Like any good dog that needs to be trained
I’ll teach you to learn to live with your shame
Lie that you love me; I’ll offer no blame
False worship is rewarded under my reign

Think not of your soul; Hell has been paved
For those who would run cannever be saved
You’ll return here again and again
Your moon never waxes; it only wanes

Call me the God of the Broken and Lost
Everything burns when I’m keeping watch

You’re untied from the mast but you’re tied to the stake
Bones are not the only part of you that can break
I am your shadow; I am your fate
I am the world that you can’t escape

The fires are burning; I’ll hold the gates
The Devil will claim what is his to take
You ain’t got long; eternity waits
The moon’s nearly gone; the time has grown late

Call me the God of the Broken and Lost
When you are forsaken, I’ll carry your cross




God of the Broken

Stop Holding On
Sometimes the heart is bled bone dry
Sometimes sweet dreams are born to die
Sometimes all hope has upped and fled
Sometimes the soul is made of lead

You’ve gotta stop holding on
You’ve gotta keep moving you gotta move on
You have to drop what is wrong
If the record is broken then change the song
You’ve gotta stop holding on
You’ve gotta keep moving you gotta move on
You have to drop what is wrong
If the record is broken then change this song

Hidden hurt and silent prayer
Smiling faces and pain that tears
Everything’s fine if anyone asks
Got a repertoire of a million masks
Penny for your thoughts well the penny’s dropped
To lift up your spirits then you’ve got to stop

Stop holding on to loss or tears
Things that never come or shadow-strung fears
Keeping stale guilt for years and years
Carrying the weight of dead atmospheres
Never trying to unstick rusted gears
If you won’t switch on the light then the night won’t disappear
It’s only darkness resident here
You’ll only whisper doubts in your own ears
Where there’s a storm in the heart no clouds will clear
With thunder in the head then the rains are always near






Holding On

I was jealous of you
So strong and so handsome
But I never knew
That death held you ransom

It’s so long ago
The days they die in decades
And I still do not know 
If our ghosts ever age

I remember your face
Though your voice drifts away
No phones now remain
From back in the day

You had a sweet lover
You were true to her
And I wonder, my brother
If she could have been your future

I know who you were — I know who you’ve been
You are eternally seventeen

November is cold
Your death made it colder
Never getting old
As the Winter gets older

When you departed
The world shrank so small
You left us cold-hearted
Left a shadow on us all

I sand and I wrote
In some strange sort of penance
To all of the ghosts
That remain as our tenants

You never learned tod rive
You just began to live
But you were so alive
In the time that God did give

I know who you were — I know who you’ve been
You are eternally seventeen

I don’t know where you are
O, brother, where art thou?
But there’s memory in this heart
In this moment, in tis now

There’s hatred in the loss
Though you’re forever pure
Maybe those who pay the cost
Are those who must endure

But I laid blame beneath your feet
And I screamed to skies
For I could never meet
Whichever god had closed your eyes

You were halfway through college
You never quite left school
You died while you’re still honest
You eternal, young fool

I know who you were — I know who you’ve been
You are eternally seventeen




Seventeen

Seventeen Acoustic

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