Cohen Leonard Avalanche Lyrics

Avalanche Lyrics

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 hill.
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 cripple here
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 pedestal
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.