You are viewing a comparison between the current version and version 1 of the song that we have archived as Leonard Cohen's Lyrics - A Singer Must Die (current)
Leonard Cohen Lyrics New Lyrics Esta página en español www.mp3lyrics.org Search 4 related Lyrics most popular lyrics

18 lines
changed
ADDED words in bold
CHANGED word in red italic
DELETED words with line-through

font size

decrease
6 lines
added

increase

font size
4 lines
removed
Current version of
Leonard Cohen Lyrics
A Singer Must Die

(
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/l/leonard-cohen/a-singer-must-die/)


Current version of the lyrics

Version 1 of
Leonard Cohen Lyrics
A Singer Must Die

(
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/l/leonard-cohen/a-singer-must-die/v...)


Version 1 of the lyrics

1  Now, the courtroom is quiet but who will confess?   Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess. 1
2  Is it true you betrayed us? The answer is yes   Is it true you betrayed us? The answer is Yes. 2
3  Then read me the list of the crimes that are mine   Then read me the list of the crimes that are mine, 3
4  I will ask for the mercy that you love to decline   I will ask for the mercy that you love to decline. 4
1  And all the ladies go moist, and the judge has no choice,1
2  a singer must die for the lie in his voice.2
      
5  And all the ladies go moist and the judge has no choice   And I thank you, I thank you for doing your duty,         5
6  A singer must die for the lie in his voice   you keepers of truth, you guardians of beauty.             6
7  And I thank you, I thank you for doing your duty   Your vision is right, my vision is wrong,                    7
8  You keepers of truth, you guardians of beauty          I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song. 8
      
9  Your vision            is right, my vision is wrong   Oh, the night it is thick, my defences are hid 9
10  I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song                                 in                       the clothes of a woman I would like to forgive, 10
11  Oh the night, it is thick, my defenses are hid                 in the rings of her silk, in the hinge of her thighs, 11
12  In the clothes of a woman I would like to forgive                                     where                             I have       to go begging in beauty's disguise. 12
3  Oh goodnight, goodnight, my night after night,3
4  my night after night, after night, after night, after night, after night.4
      
13  In the rings of her silk, in the hinge of her thighs   I am so afraid that I listen to you,                  13
14  Where I have                             to go begging in beauty's disguise   your sun glassed protectors they do that to you.                                  14
15  Oh goodnight, goodnight, my night after night                  It's their ways to detain, their ways to disgrace, 15
16  My night after night, after night, after night, after night, after night   their knee in your balls and their fist in your face.        16
17                                                                Yes and long live the state by whoever it's made, 17
18        I am so afraid that I listen to you                sir, I didn't see nothing,       I was just getting home late. 18
1  Your sun glassed protectors they do that to you   1
2  It's their ways to detain, their ways to disgrace   2
3  Their knee in your balls and their fist in your face   3
4   4
5  Yes and long live the state by whoever it's made   5
6  Sir, I didn't see nothing, I was just getting home late   6
      


privacy policy

contact
popular lyrics list

search lyrics
copyright information
www.mp3lyrics.org
lyrics editing account