Leonard Cohen Night Magic - Throne Of Desire Variations Lyrics

Night Magic - Throne Of Desire Variations Lyrics

Let me start with you Miss Shy 

Bundled up in your mother's lie 

Tip
toe, tip toe 

Hiding your silky pleasure 

Miss Shy come to me 

Along the snowy paths of modesty 

Tip toe, tip toe 

Hiding your
silky treasure 



Come to me with downcast eyes 

Come to me
and claim the prize 

Of your outrageous pleasure 



How I like
you Miss Shy 

Bundled up in your mother's lie 

Tip toe -- 

Claim your outrageous pleasure! 



o o o 



And you I
want strong 

With your hatred intact 

With your father's pipe 

And your brother's bat 

And your quaint belief 

In holy
authority 



With your discipline 

And your Darwin claws 

And your legal eye 

On the peacock's flaws 

I see what fallen
man 

Was meant to be 



With your absolute 

No man can
refute 

Your absolutely unique 

Contempt for the weak 

Down
on our paws 

There are no laws 

Kiss me where I can not speak 



You I want strong 

With your hatred intact 

With your
father's pipe 

And your brother's bat 

Now kiss me 

Where I
cannot speak! 



o o o 



You I want for my friend 

To gossip with me and drink tea 

To walk down by the river's bend 

You I want for my friend 



To watch the water going by 

The swallows climbing above 

To tell me that I lie 

When I tell
you I cannot love, 

Cannot love 



To know my heart better
than me 

To be my friend in charity 

To speak of lovers old and new


To say to me, what they've done to you 



You I want for my
friend 

To make some sense of our difference 

To eat and drink
together 

To comfort one