To A Teacher - Leonard Cohen

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[00:01.13]Leonard Cohen - To A Teacher
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[00:07.95]Hurt once and for all into silence.
[00:11.77]A long pain ending without a song to prove it.
[00:18.05]Who could stand beside you so close to Eden,
[00:22.98]When you glinted in every eye the held-high
[00:25.73]razor, shivering every ram and son?
[00:34.56]And now the silent loony bin, where
[00:38.59]The shadows live in the rafters like
[00:40.64]Day-weary bats,
[00:43.29]Until the turning mind, a radar signal,
[00:47.02]lures them to exaggerate
[00:50.03]Mountain-size on the white stone wall
[00:53.64]Your tiny limp.
[01:00.50]How can I leave you in such a house?
[01:04.25]Are there no more saints and wizards
[01:06.51]to praise their ways with pupils,
[01:09.36]No more evil to stun with the slap
[01:12.22]of a wet red tongue?
[01:17.30]Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror
[01:21.20]and rest because he had finally come?
[01:30.18]Let me cry Help beside you, Teacher.
[01:34.37]I have entered under this dark roof
[01:37.82]As fearlessly as an honoured son
[01:42.18]Enters his father’s house.
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