Avalanche Lyrics

Avalanche lyrics

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 Avalanche



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 (Leonard Cohen) 



 



 



 



 I stepped into an avalanche



 It covered up my soul



 When I am not this hunchback that you see



 I sleep beneath the golden hill



 You who wish to conquer pain



 You must learn to serve me well



 



 



 You strike my side by accident



 As you go down to your goal



 This cripple here that you clothe and feed



 Is neither starved nor cold



 He does not ask for your company



 Not at the centre, the centre of the world



 



 



 I who am on a pedestal



 You did not raise me there



 Your laws do not compel me now



 To kneel grotesque and bare



 For I myself am the pedestal



 For this ugly hump at which you stare



 



 



 You who wish to conquer pain



 You must learn what makes me kind



 The crumbs of love that you offer me



 Are the crumbs I've left behind



 Your pain is no credential here



 It's just a shadow of my wound



 



 



 I have begun to ask for you



 I who have no greed



 I have begun to long for you



 I who have no need



 You say you've gone away from me



 But I can feel you when you breathe



 



 



 Do not dress in those rags for me



 I know you are not poor



 And do not love me quite so fiercely now



 When you know that you are not sure



 It is your turn, my beloved one



 It is your flesh that I wear