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You Want It Darker

LEONARD COHEN · You Want It Darker 2016 · Track 01 of 09

Music: Patrick Leonard · Lyrics: Leonard Cohen

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

Hineni, hineni I'm ready, my lord

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

Hineni, hineni 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

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

Hineni Hineni, hineni Hineni

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