Leonard Cohen

1934-2016 / Male / Canadian

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AnthemThe birds they sang / at the break of day / Start again

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Bird On The WireLike 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 LoveDance 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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DemocracyIt's coming through a hole in the air, / from those nights in Tiananmen Square. / It's coming from the feel

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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 ManhattanThey 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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Hey, That's No Way To Say GoodbyeI 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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I'm Your ManIf you want a lover / I'll do anything you ask me to / And if you want another kind of love

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Sisters Of MercyOh 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.

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Story Of IsaacThe door it opened slowly, / my father he came in, / I was nine years old.

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