Leonard Cohen Night Magic - Wishing Window Lyrics

Night Magic - Wishing Window Lyrics

(Angels) Come, sleeper to the window, do you know 

Us know? Have we
changed? Have you seen us here 

Before? Do you remember long ago 

You summoned us across the high frontier 

Of sleep, and bid us
urgently appear. 

You called, we came, we waited every night, 

Like
crystals in solution coming clear, 

Until your dream was sharp enough and
bright 

To waken you with stabs of appetite. 

(Michael) Is this the
moment in my story when 

The messengers of destiny prepare 

The
usual historic specimen, 

Some lonely little hero starving there, 

And feed him with the fruits of solitaire? 

Is this my miracle of
bread and fishes? 

This the mystery of answered prayer? 

Is this my
table laid with golden dishes? 



(Angels) Let us not say prayer,
let's just say wishes. 

Don't stand there dreaming, let us in, 

It
wasn't all that easy getting here. We had 

To metamorphosize at least a
hundred 

Thousand times through all the dreary realms of 

Sense,
just to get us from the astral, to 

The mental, to the solid and the
dense. 

And that's not counting countless times we spent 

Manifesting aimlessly as 

Elements of chaos in the undifferentiated


Anti-universe before 

We even had a chance to be unborn 

As
shadowy particals in streams of light -- 

Now hurry up, we haven't got
all night! 



(Michael) What am I supposed to do? 



(Angels) Ask for something. 



(Michael) I can't think. 



(Angels) Come on darling. 



(Michael) Help me! 



(Angels) You can ask for peace on earth. There's a few 

That do. Or you
can ask for peace of mind. 

It's very rare but we've had one or two. 

Or ask that human suffering unwind 

And justify itse