Sisters of Mercy - Leonard Cohen

From the Movie Mc Cabe and Mrs Miller

SISTERS OF MERCY Lyrics

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on.
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me their song.
Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long.

Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

They lay down beside me, I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right,
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.

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• Leonard
• Cohen
• Sisters
• Mercy

[TheMaestroB]

the band sisters of mercy took their name from this song

[peter2156]

A long time ago,in a land faraway ,I was a boy who became a man.The love I had was for a girl ,who also became a woman .I wonder if she remembers me?This was one of her favorite songs,as well as Lola by the Kinks.The past becomes clearer.While the future grows dim.

[TheSankyu99]

@rocanon great editing to a great song and a great Altman film!

mucho thanx!!!

[zemrpereira]

@peter2156 Haha, I was just listening to Lola, but no, i'm not the girl..

[MaximillianZakes]

@SquishedButterfly Sorry for the late reply.

Yes, a full ad before every video would suck, but the uploader isn't entirely responsible, if I'm not mistaken. If a person uploads something that gets content matched (like this song), if the copyright holders want to, an ad will run either on or before the video so that they can get money.

There are a few videos that don't have ads before them, but, like you said, the number grows smaller every day.

[SquishedButterfly]

@MaximillianZakes the trouble is that if it ends up being an ad before every vid, the ad to entertainment ratio will be far too high. the people that run this site get tons out of having millions of users, and can easily survive without an ad before every vid.

As far as I understand it, the video uploaders can refuse the offer of making revenue from their successful vids. Why don't they? I did. I don't imagine they get much money so why make their viewers suffer this crass trash.

[MaximillianZakes]

@SquishedButterfly Yes, they suck ... but it sure beats having to pay to use YouTube. It costs a lot of money to run this site, since people are constantly uploading videos, which requires bandwidth, which isn't free.

Hey, I'm a realist and a capitalist. I don't like ads getting in front of a great song/video anymore than you do, but it pays for the site and keeps it 100% FREE for you and me. So, because of that, I can't complain about the ads too much.

[SquishedButterfly]

getting mighty sick of these sodding ads. having to sit through a minute long ad for some crappy war based video game before listening to something as wonderful as this just seems all wrong.

[anaki96]

This clip is the most beautiful harmony of music, poetry, and cinematography. If it's NOT perfect, it is splendidly close.

[nauort23]

This is my favorite Leonard Cohen song. It's perfect.

[TheMaestroB]

@skidrowsux1977 the band...sisters of mercy, claim they took it from this song, but wikipedia, their quotes in various music magazines..and all other sources on the internet could be wrong, thats true.

[greendog105]

@TheMaestroB surely