Leonard Cohen Coming Back Written By Cohen Performed In Night Lyrics

Coming Back Written By Cohen Performed In Night Lyrics

Angels)          You can't do this

                  You must do what

                  We must do what must be done



(Judy)            I hear my baby calling

                  He is asking to be born

                  I see the curtains parting

                  That our kisses have outworn ...



(Angels)          Kisses all outworn...



(Judy)            I'll raise a tent of shelter

                  Now though every thread is torn



(Angels)          Every thread is torn...



(Judy)            I take my life from realms of light

                  And hang it on a thorn



(Angels)          Hanging on a thorn...



(Judy)            I hear the children calling

                  Asking to be born

                  I see the curtains parting

                  And my life upon a thorn

                  



                  The stars have lost their fire

                  And the moon has lost her voice

                  And I'm coming back to find you

                  I have made the human choice.



(Angels)          You've made your choice

                  The world you choose

                  Garlands of planets and starlight

                  Now you lose



(Judy)            He's the only one who knows me

                  He's the riddle of my life

                  And they'll never tell the story

                  Of the husband and the wife



(Angels)          The world she chooses, she loses...



(Judy)            He's the stone that broke my heart

                  The foundation of my home --



(Angels)          This we must do!



(Judy)            He's the sweetness of the sweetness

                  Of the sweetness honeycomb



(Angels)          We must do what we must do!



(Judy)            And he's welcome to his glory

                  And he's buried in my life

                  And they'll never tell the story

                  Of the husband and the wife



(Angels)          She takes her life from realms of light



(Valkyries)       She hangs it on a thorn



(Angels)          She disobeys the law



(Valkyries)       The law is broken

                  You must get them



(Angels)          Get him.



(Valkyries)       Get them!

                  

                  Messenger

                  Listen

                  Messenger

                  Do what must be done

                  And our will be done

                  Will be done