Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies’ Man lyrics

Ah the man she wanted all her
Life was hanging by a thread
"I never even knew how much I wanted you
" she said
His muscles they were numbered and
His style was obsolete "O baby
I have come too late" She
Knelt beside his feet

"I'll never see a face like yours
In years of men to come
I'll never see such arms again
In wrestling or in love"
And all his virtues burning
In the smoky Holocaust
She took unto herself most
Everything her lover lost

Now the master of this landscape he
Was standing there at the view
With a sparrow of St francis
That he was preaching to
She beckoned to the sentry of
His high religious mood she said
"I'll make a place between my
Legs I'll show you solitude"

He offered her an orgy in
A many mirrored room
He promised her protection for the
Issue of her womb
She moved her body hard against
A sharpened metal spoon
She stopped the bloody rituals of
Passage to the moon

She took his much admired
Oriental frame of mind
And the heart-of darkness alibi
His money hides behind
She took his blonde madonna and
His monastery wine -
"This mental space is occupied
And everything is mine"

He tried to make a final
Stand beside the railway track she said
"The art of longing's over and
It's never coming back"
She took his tavern parliament, his cap
His cocky dance
She mocked his female fashions
And his working-class moustache

Now the last time that I saw him
He was trying hard to get
A woman's education but he's not a woman yet
And the last time that I saw her
She was living with some boy
Who gives her soul an empty room
And gives her body joy

So the great affair is over
But whoever would have guessed
It would leave us all so
Vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon
Or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if
You really wanna go that far

It's like our visit to the moon
Or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if
You really wanna go that far

It's like our visit to the moon
Or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if
You really wanna go that far