Leonard Cohen-one of us cannot be wrong (original)

I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me.
But the room just filled up with mosquitos,
they heard that my body was free.
Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
and I put it in your little shoe.
And then I confess that I tortured the dress
that you wore for the world to look through.


I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit.
Then he wrote himself a prescription,
and your name was mentioned in it!
Then he locked himself in a library shelf
with the details of our honeymoon,
and I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse
and his practice is all in a ruin.


I heard of a saint who had loved you,
so I studied all night in his school.
He taught that the duty of lovers
is to tarnish the golden rule.
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure
he drowned himself in the pool.
His body is gone but back here on the lawn
his spirit continues to drool.


An Eskimo showed me a movie
he'd recently taken of you:
the poor man could hardly stop shivering,
his lips and his fingers were blue.
I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
and I guess he just never got warm.
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice,
oh please let me come into the storm.

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[TokeThe1andOnly]

***ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL SONG***

The best part, however, is the end - after the "normal" vocals have finished you get to hear a man totally lose it for a few seconds. Cracks Me UP every time! Leonard was an artist from the starting line. He just broke out all talented and driven, waited a few decades for the adult voice to show and now he's the complete package as are those Webb sisters!

[MrFlauder]

always makes me cry

[MisterBigBlunts]

I put this as the first song on a mix tape for my girlfriend years back. She didn't like it. We broke up.

[lvivboi]

The end... unspeakably incredible

[holden415]

@TokeThe1andOnly

YES!! I love this song, but the guy at the end just makes it happen! I always laugh, but I can't help but feel the sadness. I guess its only because its hard to ignore the sadness in this world. People are lonely and melancholy. It can't be helped.

[holden415]

@TokeThe1andOnly

YES!! I love this song, but the guy at the end just makes it happen! I always laugh, but I can't help but feel the sadness. I guess its only because its hard to ignore the sadness in this world. People are lonely and melancholy. It can't be helped.

[jsebsteelguitar]

A truly beautyful song!

With a friend, we tried to cover this song... take a look at it if you have time

Musicaly

[johnkiedis27]

"Give me Leonard Cohen afterworld/ So I can sigh eternally."

[JazzyJonas]

In the last minute or so of the song, Leonard jumps of a bridge and, while falling in slow motion, is still singing.

[jucebaux]

wow.. im left speechless.. so much pain in the song