Cohen Leonard Lady Midnight Lyrics

Lady Midnight Lyrics

I came by myself to a very crowded place;
I was looking for someone who had
lines in her face.
I found her there but she was past all concern;
I
asked her to hold me, I said, "Lady, unfold me,"
but she scorned me and she
told me
I was dead and I could never return.

Well, I argued all night
like so many have before,
saying, "Whatever you give me, I seem to need so
much more."
Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor,
she
said, "Don't try to use me or slyly refuse me,
just win me or lose me,
it
is this that the darkness is for."

I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear
that you grow old,
the stars eat your body and the wind makes you
cold."
"If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
So I walked
through the morning, sweet early morning,
I could hear my lady
calling,
"You've won me, you've won me, my lord,
you've won me, you've
won me, my lord,
yes, you've won me, you've won me, my lord,
ah, you've
won me, you've won me, my lord,
ah, you've won me, you've won me, my lord."