[ti:Alexandra Leaving]
[ar:Leonard Cohen]
[al:Supreme Stereo Sound NO.9 DUETS]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:01.480] Suddenly the night has grown colder.
[00:10.040] The god of love preparing to depart.
[00:18.860] Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
[00:26.560] They slip between the sentries of the heart.
[00:33.750] Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,
[00:42.080] They gain the light, they formlessly entwine;
[00:51.220] And radiant beyond your widest measure
[00:59.650] They fall among the voices and the wine.
[01:08.220] It’s not a trick, your senses all deceiving,
[01:16.660] A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust –
[01:25.310] Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[01:33.810] Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
[01:43.220] Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
[01:51.520] Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
[01:59.810] Do not say the moment was imagined;
[02:08.030] Do not stoop to strategies like this.
[02:16.170] As someone long prepared for this to happen,
[02:24.380] Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
[02:31.330] Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.
[02:40.650] Your first commitments tangible again.
[02:49.670] And you who had the honor of her evening,
[02:58.230] And by that honor had your own restored –
[03:06.460] Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving;
[03:15.870] Alexandra leaving with her lord.
[03:22.560] Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
[03:31.530] Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
[03:39.050] Do not say the moment was imagined;
[03:47.350] Do not stoop to strategies like this.
[03:57.650] As someone long prepared for the occasion;
[04:05.840] In full command of every plan you wrecked –
[04:14.270] Do not choose a coward’s explanation
[04:22.490] that hides behind the cause and the effect.
[04:29.160] And you who were bewildered by a meaning;
[04:29.620] And you who were bewildered by a meaning;
[04:37.460] Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed –
[04:45.890] Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[04:54.630] Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
[05:02.390] Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[05:11.090] Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.