Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep (Spoken Poem Live @ London 2009)

This is it. This is one of the best, if not the best Thousand Kisses Deep ever Performed.

English Language is Not my "mother language", it was extremely hard to understand the whole poem and post lyrics here. Note that "its modified london version" of Thousand Kisses Deep with few funny phrases.

ENJOY this exquisite piece....

"You came to me this morning
And you handled me like meat
Youd have to be a man to know
How good that feels, how sweet

My mirrored twin, my next of kin
Id know you in my sleep
And who but you would take me in
A thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see Im just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet

Who loved you with his frozen love
His secondhand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep

I know you had to lie to me
I know you had to cheat
To pose all hot and high
Behind the veils of sheer deceit

Our perfect porn aristocrat
So elegant and cheap
Im old but Im still into that
A thousand kisses deep

Im good at love, Im good at hate
Its in between I freeze
Been working out but its too late
(Its been too late for years)

But you look good, you really do
They love you on the street
If you were here Id kneel for you
A thousand kisses deep


The autumn moved across your skin
Got something in my eye
A light that doesnt need to live
And doesnt need to die

A riddle in the book of love
Obscure and obsolete
And witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep

But Im still working with the wine
Still dancing cheek to cheek
The band is playing Auld Lang Syne
But the heart will not retreat

I ran with Diz, I sang with Ray
I never had their sweet
But once or twice they let me play
A thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see Im just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet

Who loved you with his frozen love
His secondhand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep

But you dont need to hear me now
And every word I speak
It counts against me anyhow
A thousand kisses deep"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Leonard
• Cohen
• Thousand
• Kisses
• Deep
• (Speaking
• Poem
• Live
• London
• 2009)

[piercj2]

I feel sorry for the one poor bastard that disliked this.

[thestranger4812]

Satan disliked this.

[cscarpino]

Heavenly. I don't know how we are going to get any better than this. Yes, this one is the best.

[dcar4225]

Goosebumps from the first second to last.

[grondverf]

replay replay replay....

[MissAylinha]

anyone who knows if this big master will give any concerts in Europe during 2012?

[MrTeaking25]

then i stand corrected

thanks dolly



[dollyandra]

@MrTeaking25 In the 'Book of Longing' (his latest published collection of poems and lyrics) it writes "I never had their sweep".

[klimkovsky]

I could play this in infinite loop!

[may935a]

His voice absolutely relieves my pain

[MrTeaking25]

i think he means

"i never had their suite"

not sweet or sweep

[XviLee]

I've never heard a sexier voice.