Leonard Cohen - Avalanche Lyrics

Lyrics Avalanche - Leonard Cohen




Well I stepped into an avalanche
It covered up my soul
When I am not this hunchback that you see
I sleep beneath the golden hills
You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn, learn to serve me well
You strike my side by accident
As you go down for your gold
The crippled h i that you clothe and feed
Is neither starved nor cold
He does not ask for your company
Not at the centre, the centre of the world
When I am on a pedestal
You did not raise me there
Your laws do not compel me
To kneel grotesque and bare
I myself am the piedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare
You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn what makes me kind
The crumbs of love that you offer me
They're the crumbs I've left behind
Your pain is no credential here
It's just the shadow, shadow of my wound
I have begun to long for you
I who have no greed
I have begun to ask for you
I who have no need
You say you've gone away from me
But I can feel you when you breathe
Do not dress in those rags for me
I know you are not poor
You don't love me quite so fiercely now
When you know that you are not sure
It is your turn, beloved
It is your flesh that I wear



Writer(s): LEONARD COHEN


Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen: The Collection - 11 Complete Albums

1 There for You
2 Master Song
3 Dear Heather
4 Winter Lady
5 Nightingale
6 The Stranger Song
7 To a Teacher
8 Sisters of Mercy
9 The Faith
10 Tennessee Waltz (Live At Montreux Jazz Festival)
11 Stories of the Street
12 One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
13 Bird On the Wire
14 Story of Isaac
15 A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes
16 Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
17 The Old Revolution
18 The Butcher
19 You Know Who I Am
20 Lady Midnight
21 Tonight Will Be Fine
22 Avalanche
23 Last Year's Man
24 Dress Rehearsal Rag
25 Diamonds In the Mine
26 Love Calls You By Your Name
27 Sing Another Song, Boys
28 Joan of Arc
29 Is This What You Wanted
30 Lover Lover Lover
31 Field Commander Cohen
32 Why Don't You Try
33 There Is a War
34 A Singer Must Die
35 I Tried To Leave You
36 Take This Longing
37 Leaving Green Sleeves
38 True Loves Leaves No Traces
39 Iodine
40 Paper Thin Hotel
41 Memories
42 I Left a Woman Waiting
43 Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On
44 Fingerprints
45 Death of a Ladies' Man
46 The Guests
47 Humbled in Love
48 The Window
49 Came So Far for Beauty
50 The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien errant)
51 The Traitor
52 Our Lady of Solitude
53 The Gypsy's Wife
54 The Smokey Life
55 Ballad of the Absent Mare
56 Coming Back to You
57 The Law
58 Night Comes On
59 Hallelujah
60 The Captain
61 Hunter's Lullaby
62 Heart With No Companion
63 If It Be Your Will
64 Ain't No Cure for Love
65 Everybody Knows
66 Take This Waltz (Paris Version)
67 Jazz Police
68 I Can't Forget
69 Tower of Song
70 The Future
71 Waiting for the Miracle
72 Be for Real
73 Closing Time
74 Anthem
75 Democracy
76 Light as the Breeze
77 Always
78 Tacoma Trailer
79 In My Secret Life
80 A Thousand Kisses Deep
81 That Don't Make It Junk
82 Here It Is
83 Love Itself
84 By the Rivers Dark
85 Alexandra Leaving
86 You Have Loved Enough
87 Boogie Street
88 The Land of Plenty
89 Go No More a-Roving
90 The Letters
91 Undertow
92 Morning Glory
93 On That Day




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