Leonard Cohen - To a Teacher lyrics
[Leonard Cohen - To a Teacher lyrics]
A long pain ending without a song to prove it
Who could stand beside you so close to Eden
When you glinted in every
Eye the held-high razor
Shivering every ram and son?
Now, silent looney-bin
Where the shadows live in the
Rafters like day-weary bats
Until the turning mind, a radar signal
Lures them to exaggerate mountain-size on
The white stone wall your tiny limp
How can I leave you in such a house?
Are there no more saints and wizards
To praise their ways with pupils
No more evil to stun with the
Slap of a wet red tongue?
Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror
And rest because he had finally come?
Let me cry help beside you, teacher
I have entered under this dark roof
As fearlessly as an honoured son
Enters his father's house
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