Leonard Cohen
1934-2016 / Male / Canadian
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Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
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,
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Suzanne
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river / You can hear the boats go by / You can spend the night beside her
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I'm Your Man
If you want a lover / I'll do anything you ask me to / And if you want another kind of love
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Democracy
It's coming through a hole in the air, / from those nights in Tiananmen Square. / It's coming from the feel
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Bird On The Wire
Like a bird on the wire, / like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be free.
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Dance Me To The End Of Love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin / Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in / Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
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The Future
Give me back my broken night / my mirrored room, my secret life / it's lonely here,
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Everybody Knows
(co-written by Sharon Robinson) / Everybody knows that the dice are loaded / Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
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First We Take Manhattan
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom / For trying to change the system from within / I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
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Anthem
The birds they sang / at the break of day / Start again
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