Master Song (Album Version) - Leonard Cohen

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[00:09.54]I believe that you heard your master sing
[00:15.04]When I was sick in bed
[00:18.16]I suppose that he told you everything
[00:22.35]That I keep locked away in my head
[00:26.35]Your master took you travelling'
[00:30.49]Well at least that's what you said
[00:34.73]And now do you come back to bring
[00:38.48]Your prisoner wine and bread
[00:48.79]You met him at some temple' where
[00:53.42]They take your clothes at the door
[00:56.85]He was just a numberless man in a chair
[01:01.35]Who'd just come back from the war
[01:04.48]And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
[01:08.85]And he hands you the apple core
[01:12.36]Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare
[01:16.23]Of all the kisses we put on some time before
[01:26.60]And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk
[01:30.79]With a collar of leather and nails'
[01:34.23]And he never once made you explain or talk
[01:38.60]About all of the little details'
[01:41.98]Such as who had a word and who had a rock'
[01:47.98]And who had you through the mails
[01:50.60]Now your love is a secret all over the block'
[01:54.05]And it never stops not even when your master fails
[02:03.92]And he took you up in his aeroplane'
[02:07.67]Which he flew without any hands'
[02:11.48]And you cruised above the ribbons of rain
[02:15.61]That drove the crowd from the stands
[02:19.30]Then he killed the lights in a lonely Lane
[02:23.61]And' an ape with angel glands'
[02:27.36]Erased the final wisps of pain
[02:31.17]With the music of rubber bands
[02:41.36]And now I hear your master sing'
[02:45.17]You kneel for him to come
[02:49.10]His body is a golden string
[02:54.06]That your body is hanging from
[02:57.06]His body is a golden string'
[03:01.00]My body has grown numb
[03:04.87]Oh now you hear your master sing'
[03:08.87]Your shirt is all undone
[03:18.81]And will you kneel beside this bed
[03:23.25]That we polished so long ago'
[03:26.74]Before your master chose instead
[03:30.79]To make my bed of snow
[03:34.48]Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
[03:38.91]And you're speaking far too low
[03:42.04]No I can't make out what your master said
[03:46.35]Before he made you go
[03:56.36]Then I think you're playing far too rough
[04:00.41]For a lady who's been to the moon;
[04:04.29]I've lain by this window long enough
[04:08.17]To get used to an empty room
[04:11.98]And your love is some dust in an old man's cough
[04:16.23]Who is tapping his foot to a tune'
[04:20.23]And your thighs are a ruin' you want too much'
[04:24.10]Let's say you came back some time too soon
[04:34.47]I loved your master perfectly
[04:38.48]I taught him all that he knew
[04:42.35]He was starving in some deep mystery
[04:46.48]Like a man who is sure what is true
[04:50.22]And I sent you to him with my guarantee
[04:53.98]I could teach him something new'
[04:58.16]And I taught him how you would long for me
[05:02.16]No matter what he said no matter what you'd do
[05:12.48]I believe that you heard your master sing
[05:16.86]While I was sick in bed'
[05:20.36]I'm sure that he told you everything
[05:24.23]I must keep locked away in my head
[05:28.42]Your master took you travelling'
[05:31.67]Well at least that's what you said'
[05:36.54]And now do you come back to bring
[05:40.36]Your prisoner wine and bread