To A Teacher lyrics

Song information

Artist: Leonard Cohen
Album: Dear Heather

Lyrics

Dedicated to a. m. klein (1909-1972)
Words and music by leonard cohen
(Words from spice-box of the earth)

Hurt once and for all into silence
A long pain ending without a song to prove it
Who could stand beside you so close to eden
When you glinted in every eye the held-high
Razor, shivering every ram and son?
And now the silent loony bin, where
The shadows live in the rafters like
Day-weary bats
Until the turning mind, a radar signal
Lures them to exaggerate
Mountain-size on the white stone wall
Your tiny limp
How can I leave you in such a house?
Are there no more saints and wizards
To praise their ways with pupils
No more evil to stun with the slap
Of a wet red tongue?
Did you confuse the messiah in a mirror
And rest because he had finally come?
Let me cry help beside you, teacher
I have entered under this dark roof
As fearlessly as an honoured son
Enters his father's house

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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