Cohen Leonard Boogie Street Lyrics

Boogie Street Lyrics

O Crown of Light, O Darkened One,

 I never thought wed meet.

 You kiss my lips, and then its done:

 Im back on Boogie Street.

 

 A sip of wine, a cigarette,

 And then its time to go.

 I tidied up the kitchenette;

 I tuned the old banjo.

 Im wanted at the traffic-jam.

 Theyre saving me a seat.

 Im what I am, and what I am,

 Is back on Boogie Street.

 

 And O my love, I still recall

 The pleasures that we knew;

 The rivers and the waterfall,

 Wherein I bathed with you.

 Bewildered by your beauty there,

 Id kneel to dry your feet.

 By such instructions you prepare

 A man for Boogie Street.

 

 O Crown of Light, O Darkened One

 

 So come, my friends, be not afraid.

 We are so lightly here.

 It is in love that we are made;

 In love we disappear.

 Tho all the maps of blood and flesh

 Are posted on the door,

 Theres no one who has told us yet

 What Boogie Street is for.

 

 O Crown of Light, O Darkened One,

 I never thought wed meet.

 You kiss my lips, and then its done:

 Im back on Boogie Street.

 

 A sip of wine, a cigarette,

 And then its time to go . . .