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Leonard Cohen

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Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture


Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!


Give me crack and an****** 
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture


Give me back the Berlin Wall
give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
It is murder!


Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul


When they said:  Repent!  Repent!
I wonder what they meant


You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival


Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul


When they said:  Repent!  Repent!
I wonder what they meant


There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing


You'll see your woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'


Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul


When they said:  Repent!  Repent!
I wonder what they meant
When they said:  Repent!  Repent....