Cohen Leonard Clap Clap Lyrics

Clap Clap Lyrics

(Mirror Song) (Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic")

(Michael) I
never thought I'd get this far

(Audience) We always knew you
would

(Michael) I've put a little weight on

(Audience) Not
really, it looks good.

(Michael) These lines around my mouth are
new

(Audience) They're the lines of wisdom

(Michael) This
puffiness around my eyes?

(Audience) The burden of the
kingdom!

(Michael) You know I like to talk with you

(Audience) We
do too, we never knew
Someone who we could talk to
Who was quite as smart
as you.

We would like to hear you talk all night
But tell us if we
might
Interrupt you with applause
If you should chance to pause.
We
would love to rock the walls
Again and again with curtain calls
And a
standing ovation
For your brilliant conversation ...

(Michael) Clap,
clap!
Now silence

Have you noticed people wear...

(Audience)
Copies of your favourite hat?

(Michael) You have noticed that my
dears?

(Audience) O yes we have noticed that.

(Michael) They wear
copies of my shoes

(Audience) Two by twos they wear your
shoes

(Michael) And they like to sing my blues

(Audience) Echoes
of your ah's and ooh's.

(Michael) You know I like to talk with
you

(Audience) We do too, we never knew
Someone who we could talk
to
Who was quite as smart as you.

(Michael) I'm afraid that I've
become
For nearly everyone
A model of behaviour
A devil or a
saviour.

(Audience) He's afraid that he's become
For next to nearly
everyone
The very latest model of behaviour
He's a devil, he's a
saviour

(Michael) They read my news and
they hold their views
On
whether I'm the devil
or a saviour

(Audience) He's afraid that he's
become
For almost everyone
The very latest model of behaviour
He's a
devil, he's a saviour

(Michael) I'm the very latest model of
behaviour

But I've paid my dues

(Audience) We know you
have!
We hold your views!

(Michael) You read my
news?

(Audience) Of course we do!

(Michael) I've been a
bum.

(Audience) How very, very, very, very far you've
come!

(Michael) I've crossed this country on my thumb.
I've met a lot
of people...

(Audience) Good and evil?

(Michael) Good and
evil!
I've been up hills

(Audience) You've been down
hills.

(Michael) I've been on junk.

(Audience) You've beaten
junk.

(Michael) I don't mean pills

(Audience) You don't mean
pills!

(Michael) I mean the needle

(Audience) He means the
needle
He means the needle!
He means the needle!

(Michael) I've
noticed my words on everyone's lips
And women are always leaving me
slips
Of paper
I'm supposed to get back to them later
And sometimes I
do

(Audience) It's only your due
After all that you've been
through
To lie down with some grateful stranger

To think he honours
someone's bed
With his wine and with his bread
And his legendary
member
It is April in December

It's charity
It's religion
Saint
Francis with the birds
Jesus with the leper
Please talk to us
forever
And ever and ever

(Michael) Clap, clap
Now
silence!

But now I make my confession
Before all the mirrors of
history
This power was given to me
It must have been given to me
For
something more
Than a star on the door
And a foot in this shabby
profession

(Audience) This is surely the sound
Of the most
profound
Remark that has ever been made
From the pulpit or the
stage
Or even the gates of heaven

(Michael) There's something waiting
for me
There's something I must feel
There's something that must bend its
knee
And I must see it kneel

There's nothing to be conquered
there
A beast that keeps the crown
And marble steps into the air
And
one man looking down


(Audience) He's smiling
He's
smiling

There is something that is waiting for him
Something that he
must feel
Something that must bend its knee
And it's he must see it
kneel

There is something to be conquered there
There's a beast that
keeps the crown
And marble steps into the air
And one man looking
down

Smiling, smiling

(Michael) Clap clap!

(Audience)
Smiling, smiling

(Michael) Clap, clap!