If it be your will !

In this video, I am reciting the lyrics of the Leonard Cohen song/poem/prayer 'If It Be Your Will'.


When performing at his Warsaw Concert in the year 1985... Leonard Cohen introduced the song as follows:
I don't know which side anybody's on anymore... and I don't really care !
There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on... and understand that 'we are creatures of a higher order'.
That doesn't mean that I don't wish you courage in your struggle. There is on both sides of this struggle... men of good will. That is important to remember !
On both sides of this struggle... some struggling for freedom; some struggling for safety.
In solemn testimony of that unbroken faith which binds the generations one to another... I sing this song, 'If It Be Your Will' !


If It Be Your Will
Leonard Cohen
Lyrics:
If it be your will that I speak no more...
and 'my voice be still' as it was before...
I will speak no more !
I shall abide until I am spoken for... If it be your will !
If it be your will 'that a voice be true'...
from this broken hill, I will sing to you !
From this broken hill... all your praises they shall ring...
If it be your will 'to let me sing' !
If it be your will... If there is a choice...
Let the rivers fill... Let the hills rejoice...
Let your mercy spill, on all these burning hearts in hell...
If it be your will 'to make us well' !
And draw us near... and bind us tight...
All your children here, in their rags of light.
In our rags of light... all dressed to kill...
and end this night... if it be your will !
If it be 'your' will !!!

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