Interpret:

Leonard Cohen

Album:

Old Ideas

O, gather up the brokenness 
Bring it to me now 
The fragrance of those promises 
You never dared to vow


The splinters that you carried 
The cross you left behind 
Come healing of the body 
Come healing of the mind


And let the heavens hear it 
The penitential hymn 
Come healing of the spirit 
Come healing of the limb


Behold the gates of mercy 
In arbitrary space 
And none of us deserving 
Of cruelty or the grace


 O, solitude of longing 
Where love has been confined 
Come healing of the body 
Come healing of the mind


O, see the darkness yielding 
That tore the light apart 
Come healing of the reason 
Come healing of the heart


O, troubledness concealing 
An undivided love 
The heart beneath is teaching 
To the broken heart above


And let the heavens falter
Let the earth proclaim 
Come healing of the altar 
Come healing of the name


O, longing of the branches 
To lift the little bud 
O, longing of the arteries 
To purify the blood


And let the heavens hear it 
The penitential hymn 
Come healing of the spirit 
Come healing of the limb


O let the heavens hear it 
The penitential hymn 
Come healing of the spirit 
Come healing of the limb