Cohen Leonard I`ve Counted What I Have Lyrics

I`ve Counted What I Have Lyrics

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

(Michael) I've counted
what I have; it's not enough
And what I need I do not dare to say.
I've
heard the soul is diamond in the rough
That pain must polish it to a bright
display;
But mine is diamond dust that's blown away.

(Angels) I've
counted what I have; it's not enough
And what I need I do not dare to
say.
I've heard the soul is diamond in the rough
That pain must polish it
to a bright display;
But mine is diamond dust that's blown
away.

(Michael) And covered up the world with glittering --
Come back
my soul, I cry, it won't obey,
And I'm the empty shape of everything
...
Come back my soul, come back to me I sing.

I'm sick with greed,
with unrequited greed
And everyman becomes my enemy.
I need his woman,
his career I need
For what he has, he's taken it from me
And what is mine
he uses clumsily.
That pagan there pretending he can dance,
This Christian
peddling his humility,
These carbons of Hitlerian romance,
These lovers
photographed without their pants.

(Frank, Louis & Then, Doubt, sloppy
mother mistress that you
Jean-Marc) Can't get rid of, who loves you more the
more
You turn away, whose perfume's pity, who
Isn't feeling well, whose
shoulder's sore --
Doubt comes generous as a dinosaur.

(Doubt) O love
forget this metaphysic bit
About the lost world and the grieving heart
You
really can't believe is haunting it;
While you brood here, other lovers
part
Their lips, prettier than you, and just as smart.

(F, L & J-M)
Doubt has all the reasons why you have to fail
And you agree, you've heard
them all before.
Her heart is broken and her breath is stale
And you say,
Tell me more my nightingale.

(Doubt) Give up your conquering plan, give
up your plan.
Time makes a choir of our lonely art
And women know that
since the world began
There never was, there is no leading man!

(F, L
& J-M) Oo tell me more my nightingale.

(Doubt & Pinky) And women know
that since the world began
There never was, there is no leading
man.

(Michael) I've counted what I have; it's not enough.
And women
know that since the world began
There never was, there is no leading
man.

(F, L & J-M) Tell me more my nightingale.

(Doubt & Pinky)
There's no leading man - no leading man!