Cohen Leonard Death Of A Ladies` Man Lyrics

Death Of A Ladies` Man Lyrics

Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
"I never even knew
how much I wanted you," she said.
His muscles they were numbered and his
style was obsolete.
"O baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his
feet.
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come
I'll
never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
And all his virtues
burning in the smoky Holocaust
She took unto herself most everything her
lover lost

Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the
view
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to
She beckoned
to the sentry of his high religious mood
She said, "I'll make a place
between my legs,
I'll show you solitude."

He offered her an orgy in a
many mirrored room
He promised her protection for the issue of her
womb
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
She stopped
the bloody rituals of passage to the moon

She took his much admired
oriental frame of mind
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides
behind
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine --
"This mental
space is occupied and everything is mine."

He tried to make a final stand
beside the railway track
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never
coming back."
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky
dance,
she mocked his female fashions and his working-class
moustache.

The last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get
a
woman's education but he's not a woman yet
And the last time that I saw her
she was living with some boy
who gives her soul an empty room and gives her
body joy.

So the great affair is over but whoever would have
guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's
like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing
if you really want to go that far.

It's like our visit to the moon or to
that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that
far.

It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess
you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.