Saturday, 12 November 2016

Remembering Leonard Cohen

Show me the place 
Where you want your slave to go
 
Show me the place
I've forgotten I don't know

Show me the place 
Where your head is bending low

Show me the place
Where you want your slave to go.

Show me the place
Help me roll away the stone

Show me the place
I can't move this thing alone

Show me the place 
Where the Word became a man

Show me the place
Where the suffering began.

The troubles came
I saved what I could save
A thread of light
A particle a wave
But there were chains 
So I hastened to behave
There were chains 
So I loved you like a slave

Show me the place
Where you want your slave to go

Show me the place
I've forgotten I don't know 

Show me the place
For my head is bending low

Show me the place 
Where you want your slave to go

The troubles came
I saved what I could save
A thread of light
A particle a wave
But there were chains 
So I hastened to behave
There were chains 
So I loved you like a slave

Show me the place
Help me roll away the stone 

Show me the place
I can't move this thing alone

Show me the place 
Where the Word became a man

Show me the place
Where the suffering began.

Leonard Cohen, "Show me the place," in Old Ideas, 2012.

 

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