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| Leonard Cohen lyrics
Dress Rehearsal Rag lyrics
Four o'clock in the afternoon
and I didn't feel like very much.
I said to myself, "Where are you golden boy,
where is your famous golden touch"
I thought you knew where
all of the elephants lie down,
I thought you were the crown prince
of all the wheels in Ivory Town.
Just take a look at your body now,
there's nothing much to save
and a bitter voice in the mirror cries,
"Hey, Prince, you need a shave."
Now if you can manage to get
your trembling fingers to behave,
why don't you try unwrapping
a stainless steel razor blade
That's right, it's come to this,
yes it's come to this,
and wasn't it a long way down,
wasn't it a strange way down
There's no hot water
and the cold is running thin.
Well, what do you expect from
the kind of places you've been living in
Don't drink from that cup,
it's all caked and cracked along the rim.
That's not the electric light, my friend,
that is your vision growing dim.
Cover up your face with soap, there,
now you're Santa Claus.
And you've got a gift for anyone
who will give you his applause.
I thought you were a racing man,
ah, but you couldn't take the pace.
That's a funeral in the mirror
and it's stopping at your face.
That's right, it's come to this,
yes it's come to this,
and wasn't it a long way down,
ah wasn't it a strange way down
Once there was a path
and a girl with chestnut hair,
and you passed the summers
picking all of the berries that grew there;
there were times she was a woman,
oh, there were times she was just a child,
and you held her in the shadows
where the raspberries grow wild.
And you climbed the twilight mountains
and you sang about the view,
and everywhere that you wandered
love seemed to go along with you.
That's a hard one to remember,
yes it makes you clench your fist.
And then the veins stand out like highways,
all along your wrist.
And yes it's come to this,
it's come to this,
and wasn't it a long way down,
wasn't it a strange way down
You can still find a job,
go out and talk to a friend.
On the back of every magazine
there are those coupons you can send.
Why don't you join the Rosicrucians,
they can give you back your hope,
you can find your love with diagrams
on a plain brown envelope.
But you've used up all your coupons
except the one that seems
to be written on your wrist
along with several thousand dreams.
Now Santa Claus comes forward,
that's a razor in his mit;
and he puts on his dark glasses
and he shows you where to hit;
and then the cameras pan,
the stand in stunt man,
dress rehearsal rag,
it's just the dress rehearsal rag,
you know this dress rehearsal rag,
it's just a dress rehearsal rag.
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Master Song lyrics
Winter Lady lyrics
Stranger Song lyrics
Sisters Of Mercy lyrics
So Long Marianne lyrics
Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye lyrics
Stories Of The Street lyrics
Teachers lyrics
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong lyrics
Bird On The Wire lyrics
Story Of Isaac lyrics
A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes lyrics
The Partisan lyrics
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy lyrics
The Old Revolution lyrics
The Butcher lyrics
You Know Who I Am lyrics
Lady Midnight lyrics
Tonight Will Be Fine lyrics
Avalanche lyrics
Last Year's Man lyrics
Diamonds In The Mine lyrics
Love Calls You By Your Name lyrics
Famous Blue Raincoat lyrics
Sing Another Song, Boys lyrics
Joan Of Arc lyrics
Is This What You Wanted lyrics
Chelsea Hotel #2 lyrics
Lover Lover Lover lyrics
Field Commander Cohen lyrics
Why Don't You Try lyrics
There Is A War lyrics
A Singer Must Die lyrics
I Tried To Leave You lyrics
Who By Fire lyrics
Take This Longing lyrics
Leaving Green Sleeves lyrics
True Love Leaves No Traces lyrics
Iodine lyrics
Paper Thin Hotel lyrics
Memories lyrics
I Left A Woman Waiting lyrics
Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On lyrics
Fingerprints lyrics
Death Of A Ladies' Man lyrics
The Guests lyrics
Humbled In Love lyrics
The Window lyrics
I Came So Far For Beauty lyrics
Un Canadien Errant (The Lost Canadian) lyrics
The Traitor lyrics
Our Lady Of Solitude lyrics
The Gypsy's Wife lyrics
The Smokey Life lyrics
Ballad Of The Absent Mare lyrics
Dance Me To The End Of Love lyrics
Coming Back To You lyrics
The Law lyrics
The Night Comes On lyrics
Hallelujah lyrics
The Captain lyrics
Hunter's Lullaby lyrics
Heart With No Companion lyrics
If It Be Your Will lyrics
First We Take Manhattan lyrics
Ain't No Cure For Love lyrics
Everybody Knows lyrics
I'm Your Man lyrics
Take This Waltz lyrics
Jazz Police lyrics
I Can't Forget lyrics
Tower Of Song lyrics
The Future lyrics
Waiting For The Miracle lyrics
Be For Real lyrics
Closing Time lyrics
Anthem lyrics
Democracy lyrics
Light As The Breeze lyrics
Always lyrics
In My Secret Life lyrics
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Alexandra Leaving lyrics
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Boogie Street lyrics
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