Leonard Cohen - I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries lyrics
[Leonard Cohen - I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries lyrics]
I have not lingered in European monasteries
And discovered among the tall
Grasses tombs of knights
Who fell as beautifully as their ballads tell
I have not parted the grasses
Or purposefully left them thatched
I have not released my mind
To wander and wait in those great distances
Between the snowy mountains
And the fishermen, like a moon
Or a shell beneath the moving water
I have not held my breath
So that I might hear the breathing of God
Or tamed my heartbeat with an exercise
Or starved for visions
Although I have watched him often
I have not become the heron
Leaving my body on the shore
And I have not become the luminous trout
Leaving my body in the air
I have not worshipped wounds and relics
Or combs of iron
Or bodies wrapped and burnt in scrolls
I have not been unhappy
For ten thousand years
During the day I laugh and
During the night I sleep
My favourite cooks prepare my meals
My body cleans and repairs it'self
And all my work goes well
And discovered among the tall
Grasses tombs of knights
Who fell as beautifully as their ballads tell
I have not parted the grasses
Or purposefully left them thatched
I have not released my mind
To wander and wait in those great distances
Between the snowy mountains
And the fishermen, like a moon
Or a shell beneath the moving water
I have not held my breath
So that I might hear the breathing of God
Or tamed my heartbeat with an exercise
Or starved for visions
Although I have watched him often
I have not become the heron
Leaving my body on the shore
And I have not become the luminous trout
Leaving my body in the air
I have not worshipped wounds and relics
Or combs of iron
Or bodies wrapped and burnt in scrolls
I have not been unhappy
For ten thousand years
During the day I laugh and
During the night I sleep
My favourite cooks prepare my meals
My body cleans and repairs it'self
And all my work goes well