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Table of Contents

Bird On A Wire

Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye

Suzanne

Chelsea Hotel #2

So Long, Marianne

Tower Of Song

I’m Your Man

Master Song

The Window

Jazz Police

Take This Longing

Is This What You Wanted

The Stranger Song

Humbled In Love

Sisters Of Mercy

Famous Blue Raincoat

Ain’t No Cure For Love

(No) Diamonds In The Mine

Story Of Isaac

Tonight Will Be Fine

The Guests

Sing Another Song, Boys

A Singer Must Die

The Gypsy’s Wife

Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

Take This Waltz

Lady Midnight

Love Calls You By Your Name

Avalanche

Came So Far For Beauty

You Know Who I Am

The Smokey Life

Dress Rehearsal Rag

There Is A War

Joan Of Arc

Winter Lady

One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Why Don’t You Try

The Traitor

Who By Fire

First We Take Manhattan

Everybody Knows

Lover Lover Lover

COVER DESIGN BY PEARCE MARCHBANK STUDIOS

ARRANGEMENTS BY FRANK METIS

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BIRD ON A WIRE

WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN

HEY THAT’S NO WAY TO SAY GOODBYE

WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN

Additional Lyrics

2. I’m not looking for another

As I wander in my time.

Walk me to the corner,

Our steps will always rhyme.

You know my love goes with you

As your love stays with me,

It’s just the way it changes

Like the shoreline and the sea.

But let’s not talk of love or chains

And things we can’t untie,

Your eyes are soft with sorrow,

Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

3. I loved you in the morning,

Our kisses deep and warm,

Your hair upon the pillow,

Like a sleepy golden storm.

Yes, many loved before us,

I know that we are not new,

In city and in forest,

They smiled like me and you.

But let’s not talk of love or chains

And things we can’t untie,

Your eyes are soft with sorrow,

Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

SUZANNE

WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN

Additional Lyrics

2. And Jesus was a sailor

When he walked upon the water,

And he spent a long time watching

From his lonely wooden tower.

And when he knew for certain

Only drowning men could see him,

He said, “All men will be sailors then

Until the sea shall free them.”

But he himself was broken,

Long before the sky would open.

Forsaken, almost human,

He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.

And you want to travel with him,

And you want to travel blind,

And you think maybe you’ll trust him,

For he’s touched your perfect body with his mind.

3. Now Suzanne takes your hand,

And she leads you to the river.

She is wearing rags and feathers

From Salvation Army counters.

And the sun pours down like honey

On our lady of the harbour.

And she shows you where to look

Among the garbage and the flowers.

There are heroes in the seaweed,

There are children in the morning,

They are leaning out for love,

And they will lean that way forever.

While Suzanne holds the mirror.

And you want to travel with her,

And you want to travel blind,

And you know that you can trust her,

For she’s touched your perfect body with her mind.

CHELSEA HOTEL #2

WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN

Additional Lyrics

2. I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

You were famous, your heart was a legend.

You told me again you preferred handsome men,

But for me you would make an exception.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us

Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,

You fixed yourself, you said, “Well, never mind,

We are ugly but we have the music.”

Chorus

3. I don’t mean to suggest that I loved you the best,

I can’t keep track of each fallen robin.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

That’s all, I don’t think of you that often.

SO LONG, MARIANNE

WORDS AND MUSIC BY LEONARD COHEN

Additional Lyrics

2. Well, you know that I love to live with you,

But you make me forget so very much.

I forget to pray for the angel,

And then the angels forget to pray for us.

Chorus

3. We met when we were almost young,

Deep in the green lilac park.

You held on to me like I was a crucifix,

As we went kneeling through the dark.

Chorus

4. Your letters, they all say that you’re beside me now.

Then why do I feel alone?

I’m standing on a ledge, and your fine spider web

Is fastening my ankle to a stone.

Chorus

5. For now I need your hidden love,

I’m cold as a new razor blade.

You left when I told you I was curious,

I