Alexandra Leaving - Leonard Cohen

[ti:Alexandra leaving]
[ar:Leonard Cohen]
[al:ten new songs]
[by:ClaireTong]
[00:01.48]Suddenly the night has grown colder.
[00:10.04]The god of love preparing to depart.
[00:18.86]Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
[00:26.56]They slip between the sentries of the heart.
[00:33.10]
[00:33.75]Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,
[00:42.08]They gain the light, they formlessly entwine;
[00:51.22]And radiant beyond your widest measure
[00:59.65]They fall among the voices and the wine.
[01:05.90]
[01:08.22]It’s not a trick, your senses all deceiving,
[01:16.66]A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust –
[01:25.31]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[01:33.81]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
[01:40.17]
[01:43.22]Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
[01:51.52]Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
[01:59.81]Do not say the moment was imagined;
[02:08.03]Do not stoop to strategies like this.
[02:14.50]
[02:16.17]As someone long prepared for this to happen,
[02:24.38]Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
[02:31.33]Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.
[02:40.65]Your first commitments tangible again.
[02:47.36]
[02:49.67]And you who had the honor of her evening,
[02:58.23]And by that honor had your own restored –
[03:06.46]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving;
[03:15.87]Alexandra leaving with her lord.
[03:21.60]
[03:22.56]Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
[03:31.53]Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
[03:39.05]Do not say the moment was imagined;
[03:47.35]Do not stoop to strategies like this.
[03:56.00]
[03:57.65]As someone long prepared for the occasion;
[04:05.84]In full command of every plan you wrecked –
[04:14.27]Do not choose a coward’s explanation
[04:22.49]that hides behind the cause and the effect.
[04:28.17]
[04:29.16]And you who were bewildered by a meaning;
[04:29.24]
[04:29.62]And you who were bewildered by a meaning;
[04:37.46]Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed –
[04:45.89]Say goodbye to Alexandra