Alexandra Leaving

Album: Ten New Songs (2001)
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  • Suddenly the night has grown colder
    The god of love preparing to depart
    Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder
    They slip between the sentries of the heart

    Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure
    They gain the light, they formlessly entwine
    And radiant beyond your widest measure
    They fall among the voices and the wine

    It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving
    A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust
    Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
    Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost

    Even though she sleeps upon your satin
    Even though she wakes you with a kiss
    Do not say the moment was imagined
    Do not stoop to strategies like this

    As someone long prepared for this to happen
    Go firmly to the window, drink it in
    Exquisite music, Alexandra laughing
    Your first commitments, tangible again

    And you who had the honor of her evening
    And by the honor had your own restored
    Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
    Alexandra leaving with her Lord

    Even though she sleeps upon your satin
    Even though she wakes you with a kiss
    Do not say the moment was imagined
    Do not stoop to strategies like this

    As someone long prepared for the occasion
    In full command of every plan you wrecked
    Do not choose a coward's explanation
    That hides behind the cause and the effect

    And you who were bewildered by a meaning
    Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed
    Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
    Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost

    Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
    Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost Writer/s: Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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