Is This What You Wanted lyrics

Song information

Artist: Leonard Cohen
Album: New Skin For The Old Ceremony

Lyrics

You were the promise at dawn
I was the morning after
You were jesus christ my lord
I was the money lender
You were the sensitive woman
I was the very reverend freud
You were the manual orgasm
I was the dirty little boy

And is this what you wanted
To live in a house that is haunted
By the ghost of you and me?

Is this what you wanted ..

You were marlon brando
I was steve mcqueen
You were k.y. jelly
I was vaseline
You were the father of modern medicine
I was mr. clean
You where the whore and the beast of babylon
I was rin tin tin

And is this what you wanted ..

And is this what you wanted ..

You got old and wrinkled
I stayed seventeen
You lusted after so many
I lay here with one
You defied your solitude
I came through alone
You said you could never love me
I undid your gown

And is this what you wanted ..

And is this what you wanted ..

I mean is this what you wanted ..

That's right, is this what you wanted ..

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

"New Skin For The Old Ceremony" album track list