Master Song-Leonard Cohen

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[ar:Leonard Cohen]
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[00:10.04]I believe that you heard your master sing
[00:15.54]When I was sick in bed
[00:18.66]I suppose that he told you everything
[00:22.85]That I keep locked away in my head
[00:26.85]Your master took you travelling'
[00:30.99]Well at least that's what you said
[00:35.23]And now do you come back to bring
[00:38.98]Your prisoner wine and bread
[00:49.29]You met him at some temple' where
[00:53.92]They take your clothes at the door
[00:57.35]He was just a numberless man in a chair
[01:01.85]Who'd just come back from the war
[01:04.98]And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
[01:09.35]And he hands you the apple core
[01:12.86]Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare
[01:16.73]Of all the kisses we put on some time before
[01:27.10]And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk
[01:31.29]With a collar of leather and nails'
[01:34.73]And he never once made you explain or talk
[01:39.10]About all of the little details'
[01:42.48]Such as who had a word and who had a rock'
[01:48.48]And who had you through the mails
[01:51.10]Now your love is a secret all over the block'
[01:54.55]And it never stops not even when your master fails
[02:04.42]And he took you up in his aeroplane'
[02:08.17]Which he flew without any hands'
[02:11.98]And you cruised above the ribbons of rain
[02:16.11]That drove the crowd from the stands
[02:19.80]Then he killed the lights in a lonely Lane
[02:24.11]And' an ape with angel glands'
[02:27.86]Erased the final wisps of pain
[02:31.67]With the music of rubber bands
[02:41.86]And now I hear your master sing'
[02:45.67]You kneel for him to come
[02:49.60]His body is a golden string
[02:54.56]That your body is hanging from
[02:57.56]His body is a golden string'
[03:01.50]My body has grown numb
[03:05.37]Oh now you hear your master sing'
[03:09.37]Your shirt is all undone
[03:19.31]And will you kneel beside this bed
[03:23.75]That we polished so long ago'
[03:27.24]Before your master chose instead
[03:31.29]To make my bed of snow
[03:34.98]Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
[03:39.41]And you're speaking far too low
[03:42.54]No I can't make out what your master said
[03:46.85]Before he made you go
[03:56.86]Then I think you're playing far too rough
[04:00.91]For a lady who's been to the moon;
[04:04.79]I've lain by this window long enough
[04:08.67]To get used to an empty room
[04:12.48]And your love is some dust in an old man's cough
[04:16.73]Who is tapping his foot to a tune'
[04:20.73]And your thighs are a ruin' you want too much'
[04:24.60]Let's say you came back some time too soon
[04:34.97]I loved your master perfectly
[04:38.98]I taught him all that he knew
[04:42.85]He was starving in some deep mystery
[04:46.98]Like a man who is sure what is true
[04:50.72]And I sent you to him with my guarantee
[04:54.48]I could teach him something new'
[04:58.66]And I taught him how you would long for me
[05:02.66]No matter what he said no matter what you'd do
[05:12.98]I believe that you heard your master sing
[05:17.36]While I was sick in bed'
[05:20.86]I'm sure that he told you everything
[05:24.73]I must keep locked away in my head
[05:28.92]Your master took you travelling'
[05:32.17]Well at least that's what you said'
[05:37.04]And now do you come back to bring
[05:40.86]Your prisoner wine and bread