Leonard Cohen - Take this longing
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BbMany men have loved the Fbells
BbYou fastened to the reFin
DmAnd everyone whoGm wanted you
DmThey found what they wilCl alwDmays want Cagain
EmYour beauty lost to you youAmrself
Just Emas it was lost to tAmhem
Oh tFake this longing from my tCongue
WhatFever useless things these hands have dCone
LFet me see your beauty broken dCown
EmLike you would Fdo for one you Clove
Your body like a searchlight
My poverty revealed
I would like to try your charity
Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
And everything depends upon
How near you sleep to me
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the lonely things my hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Hungry as an archway
Through which the troops have passed
I stand in ruins behind you
With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps
I love to see you naked over there
Especially from the back
Oh take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
Untie for me your hired blue gown
Like you would do for one that you love
You're faithful to the better man
I'm afraid that he left
So let me judge your love affair
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
That he's shaken from his head
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Like you would dFo for one you lCove