You Want It Darker

Album: You Want It Darker (2016)
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  • If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game
    If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
    If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
    Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
    A million candles burning for the help that never came
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    There's a lover in the story
    But the story's still the same
    There's a lullaby for suffering
    And a paradox to blame
    But it's written in the scriptures
    And it's not some idle claim
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    They're lining up the prisoners
    And the guards are taking aim
    I struggled with some demons
    They were middle class and tame
    I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    Hineni, hineni
    Hineni, hineni
    Hineni, hineni
    Hineni, hineni

    Hineni
    Hineni
    Hineni, hineni
    Hineni, hineni
    Hineni, hineni
    Hineni, hineni
    I'm ready, my lord
    I'm ready, my lord

    Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
    Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
    A million candles burning for the love that never came
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    If you are the dealer, let me out of the game
    If you are the healer, I'm broken and lame
    If thine is the glory, mine must be the shame
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    You want it darker
    We kill the flame

    You want it darker
    We kill the flame Writer/s: Leonard Cohen, Patrick Leonard
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • George from Vancouver, Canada"Hineini" is Hebrew for "Here I am," sung by a cantor on the eve of Yom Kippur.

    In this song, so close to Cohen's death, it seems like he was speaking it to the angel of Death.
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