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Leonard Cohen - The Traitor Leonard Cohen - The Traitor |
Transpozícia: [+1 +2 -1 -2] *** Autor textu: Leonard Cohen *** Autor hudby: Leonard Cohen |
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Now the ASwan it floated Don the English Ariver
Ah the ARose of High RoDmance it opened Awide
A C#7sun tanned woman F#molyawned me through the Dsummer A
and the Ejudges watched us Dfrom the oE7ther Aside
I told my mother "Mother I must leave you
preserve my room but do not shed a tear
Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
it was half my fault and half the atmosphere"
But the Rose I sickened with a scarlet fever
and the Swan I tempted with a sense of shame
She said at last I was her finest lover
and H7if she withered I would be to Eblame
The judges said you missed it by a fraction
rise up and brace your troops for the attack
Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action
Oh see the men of action falling back
But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment
I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
My falsity had stung me like a hornet
The poison sank and it paralysed my will
I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers
that they had been deserted from above
So on battlefields from here to Barcelona
I'm Hlisted with the enemies of Elove
And long ago she said "I must be leaving,
Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
You can move it up and down and when I'm sleeping
Run some wire through that Rose and wind the Swan"
So daily I renew my idle duty
I touch her here and there I know my place
I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty
and people call me traitor to my face
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