歌手:Leonard Cohen
专辑:《Recent Songs》

作词 : Leonard Cohen
作曲 : Leonard Cohen
Now the swan it floated
On the english river

Ah the rose of high romance

It opened wide

A sun tanned woman yearned me
Through the summer

And the judges watched us
From the other side

I told my mother mother

I must leave you

Preserve my room
But do not shed a tear

Should rumour of a shabby
Ending reach you

It was half my fault
And half the atmosphere

But the rose I sickened
With a scarlet fever

And the swan I tempted
With a sense of shame

She said at last
I was her finest lover

And if she withered
I would be to blame

The judges said you missed it

By a fraction

Rise up and brace
Your troops for the attack

Ah the dreamers ride
Against the men of action

Oh see the men of action

Falling back

But I lingered on her thighs
A fatal moment

I kissed her lips
As though I thirsted still

My falsity had stung me
Like a hornet

The poison sank
And it paralysed my will

I could not move to warn
All the younger soldiers

That they had been
Deserted from above

So on battlefields
From here to barcelona

I'm listed with the enemies of love

And long ago she said
I must be leaving

Ah but keep my body here to lie upon

You can move it up
And down and when I'm sleeping

Run some wire through
That rose and wind the swan

So daily I renew my idle duty

I touch her here and there

I know my place

I kiss her open mouth
And I praise her beauty

And people call me traitor to my face