Leonard Cohen - After the Sabbath Prayers lyrics
[Leonard Cohen - After the Sabbath Prayers lyrics]
After the Sabbath prayers
The Baal Shem's butterfly
Followed me down the hill
Now the Baal Shem is dead
These hundreds of years
And a butterfly ends it's life
In three flag-swept days
So this was a miracle
Dancing down all these wars and truces
Yellow as a first day butterfly
Nothing of time or massacre
In it's bright flutter
Now the sharp stars are in the sky
And I am shivering as I did last night
And the wind is not warmer
For the yellow butterfly
Folded somewhere on a sticky leaf
And moving like a leaf it'self
And how truly great
A miracle this is, that I
Who this morning saw the
Baal Shem's butterfly
Doing it's glory in the sun
Should spend this night in darkness
Hands pocketed against the flies and cold
The Baal Shem's butterfly
Followed me down the hill
Now the Baal Shem is dead
These hundreds of years
And a butterfly ends it's life
In three flag-swept days
So this was a miracle
Dancing down all these wars and truces
Yellow as a first day butterfly
Nothing of time or massacre
In it's bright flutter
Now the sharp stars are in the sky
And I am shivering as I did last night
And the wind is not warmer
For the yellow butterfly
Folded somewhere on a sticky leaf
And moving like a leaf it'self
And how truly great
A miracle this is, that I
Who this morning saw the
Baal Shem's butterfly
Doing it's glory in the sun
Should spend this night in darkness
Hands pocketed against the flies and cold