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Album: Miscellaneous (2009)
Artists: Leonard Cohen

  1. A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes
  2. A Singer Must Die
  3. Avalanche
  4. Bird On The Wire
  5. Chelsea Hotel #2
  6. Diamonds In The Mine
  7. Dress Rehearsal Rag
  8. Famous Blue Raincoat
  9. Field Commander Cohen
  10. Groove Dub
  11. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
  12. I Tried To Leave You
  13. Is This What You Wanted
  14. Joan Of Arc
  15. Lady Midnight
  16. Last Year's Man
  17. Love Calls You By Your Name
  18. Lover Lover Lover
  19. Master Song
  20. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
  21. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
  22. Sing Another Song, Boys
  23. Sisters Of Mercy
  24. So Long Marianne
  25. Stories Of The Street
  26. Story Of Isaac
  27. Stranger Song
  28. Suzanne
  29. Teachers
  30. The Butcher
  31. The Old Revolution
  32. The Partisan
  33. There Is A War
  34. Tonight Will Be Fine
  35. Why Don't You Try
  36. Winter Lady
  37. You Know Who I Am


Leonard Cohen
Miscellaneous
Last Year's Man

The rain falls down on last year's man,
that's a jew's harp on the table,
that's a crayon in his hand.
And the corners of the blueprint are ruined since they rolled
far past the stems of thumbtacks
that still throw shadows on the wood.
And the skylight is like skin for a drum I'll never mend
and all the rain falls down amen
on the works of last year's man.
I met a lady, she was playing with her soldiers in the dark
oh one by one she had to tell them
that her name was Joan of Arc.
I was in that army, yes I stayed a little while;
I want to thank you, Joan of Arc,
for treating me so well.
And though I wear a uniform I was not born to fight;
all these wounded boys you lie beside,
goodnight, my friends, goodnight.

I came upon a wedding that old families had contrived;
Bethlehem the bridegroom,
Babylon the bride.
Great Babylon was naked, oh she stood there trembling for me,
and Bethlehem inflamed us both
like the shy one at some orgy.
And when we fell together all our flesh was like a veil
that I had to draw aside to see
the serpent eat its tail.

Some women wait for Jesus, and some women wait for Cain
so I hang upon my altar
and I hoist my axe again.
And I take the one who finds me back to where it all began
when Jesus was the honeymoon
and Cain was just the man.
And we read from pleasant Bibles that are bound in blood and skin
that the wilderness is gathering
all its children back again.

The rain falls down on last year's man,
an hour has gone by
and he has not moved his hand.
But everything will happen if he only gives the word;
the lovers will rise up
and the mountains touch the ground.
But the skylight is like skin for a drum I'll never mend
and all the rain falls down amen
on the works of last year's man.
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