Leonard Cohen - Drank a Lot lyrics
[Leonard Cohen - Drank a Lot lyrics]
I drank a lot i lost my job
I lived like nothing mattered
Then you stopped, and came across
My little bridge of fallen answers
I don't recall what happened next
I kept you at a distance
But tangled in the knot of sex
My punishment was lifted
And lifted on a single breath
No coming and no going
O G-d, you are the only friend
I never thought of knowing
Your remedies beneath my hand
Your fingers in my hair
The kisses on our lips began
That ended everywhere
And now our sins are all confessed
Our strategies forgiven
It’s written that the law must rest
Before the law is written
And not because of what i'd lost
And not for what i'd mastered
You stopped for me, and came across
The bridge of fallen answers
Tho’ mercy has no point of view
And no one's here to suffer
We cry aloud, as humans do:
We cry to one another
And now it's one, and now it's two
And now the whole disaster
We cry for help, as humans do
Before the truth, and after
And Every Guiding Light Was Gone
And Every Teacher Lying
There Was No Truth In Moving On
There Was No Truth In Dying
And Then The Night Commanded Me
To Enter In Her Side
And Be As Adam Was To Eve
Before The Great Divide
Her remedies beneath my hand
Her fingers in my hair
And every mouth of hunger glad
And deeply unaware
And here i cannot lift a hand
To trace the lines of beauty
But lines are traced, and beauty's glad
To come and go so freely
And from the wall a grazing wind
Weightless and routine
It wounds us as i part your lips
It wounds us in between
And every guiding light was gone
And every sweet direction
The book of love i read was wrong
It had a happy ending
And Now There Is No Point Of View
And Now There Is No Other
We Spread And Drown As Lilies Do
We Spread And Drown Forever
You are my tongue, you are my eye
My coming and my going
O G-d, you let your sailor die
So he could be the ocean
And when I'm at my hungriest
She takes away my tongue
And holds me here where hungers rest
Before the world is born
And fastened here we cannot move
We cannot move forever
We spread and drown as lilies do
From nowhere to the center
Escaping through a secret gate
I made it to the border
And call it luck or call it fate
I left my house in order
And now there is no point of view
And now there is no other
We spread and drown as lilies do
We spread and drown forever
Disguised as one who lived in peace
I made it to the border
Though every atom of my heart
Was burning with desire
I lived like nothing mattered
Then you stopped, and came across
My little bridge of fallen answers
I don't recall what happened next
I kept you at a distance
But tangled in the knot of sex
My punishment was lifted
And lifted on a single breath
No coming and no going
O G-d, you are the only friend
I never thought of knowing
Your remedies beneath my hand
Your fingers in my hair
The kisses on our lips began
That ended everywhere
And now our sins are all confessed
Our strategies forgiven
It’s written that the law must rest
Before the law is written
And not because of what i'd lost
And not for what i'd mastered
You stopped for me, and came across
The bridge of fallen answers
Tho’ mercy has no point of view
And no one's here to suffer
We cry aloud, as humans do:
We cry to one another
And now it's one, and now it's two
And now the whole disaster
We cry for help, as humans do
Before the truth, and after
And Every Guiding Light Was Gone
And Every Teacher Lying
There Was No Truth In Moving On
There Was No Truth In Dying
And Then The Night Commanded Me
To Enter In Her Side
And Be As Adam Was To Eve
Before The Great Divide
Her remedies beneath my hand
Her fingers in my hair
And every mouth of hunger glad
And deeply unaware
And here i cannot lift a hand
To trace the lines of beauty
But lines are traced, and beauty's glad
To come and go so freely
And from the wall a grazing wind
Weightless and routine
It wounds us as i part your lips
It wounds us in between
And every guiding light was gone
And every sweet direction
The book of love i read was wrong
It had a happy ending
And Now There Is No Point Of View
And Now There Is No Other
We Spread And Drown As Lilies Do
We Spread And Drown Forever
You are my tongue, you are my eye
My coming and my going
O G-d, you let your sailor die
So he could be the ocean
And when I'm at my hungriest
She takes away my tongue
And holds me here where hungers rest
Before the world is born
And fastened here we cannot move
We cannot move forever
We spread and drown as lilies do
From nowhere to the center
Escaping through a secret gate
I made it to the border
And call it luck or call it fate
I left my house in order
And now there is no point of view
And now there is no other
We spread and drown as lilies do
We spread and drown forever
Disguised as one who lived in peace
I made it to the border
Though every atom of my heart
Was burning with desire