Suzanne - Leonard Cohen

Who are you when the lights come up When the music fades and the crowd goes down Where did you land when the spinning stopped Are you far away in another town You were young and the lights were bright You went dancing in to the night You always said it would turn out alright Suzanne will you help me if you can Suzanne is it everything you wanted Suzanne, Suzanne is it everything you dreamed it would be You reached for the stars and you touched the sky You fell back down and you don't know why But Suzanne you still shine bright to me You are the first one on and the last one off Who do you see when the mask comes off With your red wine teeth and your smoker's cough Suzanne I feel you've had enough You never cared for what I had to say Now you go sleeping all through the day Please don't dream your life away Suzanne would you help me to understand Suzanne is it everything you wanted Suzanne, Suzanne is it everything you dreamed it would be For time takes everything she likes And youth will leave like a thief in the night But Suzanne you still shine bright to me Now you're old and the lights are dim The band won't play and the man won't sing All the songs that he sang when you danced with him Suzanne can I take you by the hand Suzanne is it everything you wanted Suzanne, Suzanne is it everything you dreamed it would be You never knew the rules to the game Drawn in like a moth to the flame Suzanne it is a crying shame That they'll never know your name

My name is calypso And i have lived alone I live on an island And i waken to the dawn A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea I knew that he was drowning And i brought him into me Now today Come morning light He sails away After one last night I let him go. My name is calypso My garden overflows Thick and wild and hidden Is the sweetness there that grows My hair it blows long As i sing into the wind My name is calypso And i have lived alone I live on an island I tell of nights Where i could taste the salt on his skin Salt of the waves And of tears And though he, pulled away I kept him here for years I let him go My name is calypso I have let him go In the dawn he sails away To be gone forever more And the waves will take him in again But he'll know their ways now I will stand upon the shore With a clean heart And my song in the wind The sand will sting my feet And the sky will burn It's a lonely time ahead I do not ask him to return I let him go I let him go

Field Commander Cohen He was our most important spy Wounded in the line of duty Parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties Urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles Leave it all and like a man Come back to nothing special Such as waiting rooms and ticket lines Silver bullet suicides and messianic ocean tides And racial roller coaster rides And other forms of boredom, advertised as poetry I know you need your sleep now I know your life's been hard But many men are falling Where you promised to stand guard I never asked but I heard You cast your lot along with the poor But then I overheard your prayer That you be this and nothing more Than just some grateful faithful woman's Favorite singing millionaire The patron Saint of Envy and the grocer of despair Working for the Yankee dollar I know you need your sleep now I know your life's been hard But many men are falling Where you promised to stand guard Ah, lover come and lie with me If my lover is who you are And be your sweetest self awhile Until I ask for more, my child Then let the other selves be one, yeah Let them manifest and come 'Til every taste is on the tongue 'Til love is pierced and love is hung And every kind of freedom done Then, oh, my love, oh, my love Oh, my love, oh, my love Oh, my love, oh, my love Oh, my love

אבא, כמה אהבה יש לי אליך אתה לא יודע ואם לא הראיתי מספיק קח עוד שיר שיוכל להסביר מצטער שלא הבנתי את הלב שלך מצטער שלא מצאתי את המילים איתך כי הרי מה שקיבלתי כל זה בזכותך תן לי את היד מבטיח, לא לעזוב אותך אבא אין פה מושלם אבל בשבילי אתה כל העולם גם אם יבואו שנים ללא מילים אני אבין אותך אני הבן שלך קח את הכול זה בכלל שלך תודה על הכול אני אוהב אותך ואף פעם לא כעסתי על הלב שלך אל תדאג כי זו הדרך שכתובה לך והרי מה שנתתי כל זה בשבילך גם אם לא תהיה איתי פה אני תמיד איתך

על כביש פתוח כמעט כמו הרוח אין לי שום כיוון אני לא בטוח איך אפשר לנוח איך מוצאים איזון ויש לי אלף חלומות עוד להגשים איתך תבואי לפה אחרי פרידות אני תמיד בתהיות על מי שלא הצלחתי להיות בשבילך אני נופל קם והולך עם הדרך מסתבך מה קורה לי בגללך איך איך אני אמור להסתדר כשתחבקי אחד אחר ולא נספיק עוד לדבר ואין לי כוח שיגעו לי את המוח מה צריך להיות כולם הפכו להיות פרופסורים לאהבות ובעיות ויש לי קטע כמו ילד אני שם שירים ומדמיין את כל הסיטואציות שטעינו מאמי דרמות שעשינו מאמי לב שבור זה ממכר בשבילך אני נופל קם והולך עם הדרך מסתבך מה קורה לי בגללך איך איך אני אמור להסתדר כשתחבקי אחד אחר ולא נספיק עוד לדבר