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I Came So Far For Beauty lyrics

 



Artist Name - Leonard Cohen


Song Lyrics - I Came So Far For Beauty


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I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned
I thought I'd be rewarded
For such a lonely choice
And surely she would answer
To such a very hopeless voice
I practiced all my sainthood
I gave to one and all
But the rumours of my virtue
They moved her not at all
I changed my style to silver
I changed my clothed to black
And where I would surrender
Now I would attack
I stormed the old casino
For the money and the flesh
And I myself decided
What was rotten and what was fresh
And men to do my bidding
And broken bones to teach
The value of my pardon
The shadow of my reach
But no, I could not touch her
With such a heavy hand
Her star beyond my order
Her nakedness unmanned
I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned





 


 



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    All summer long she touched me She gathered in my soul From
many a thorn, from many thickets Her fingers, like a weaver's Quick and ....


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    And where, where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight I've heard all
the wild reports, they can't be right But whose head is this she's ....


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    I've never seen your eyes so wide I've never seen your appetite
quite this occupied Elsewhere is your feast of love I know ... where ....


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    Say a prayer for the cowboy His mare's run away And he'll
walk til he finds her His darling, his stray but the river's in ....


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