Leonard Cohen Sentence Meme
Part 1 - Suzanne, Hallelujah, Bird on the Wire, Closing Time, First We Take Manhattan, You Want it Darker.
Change pronouns and such as needed.
“You know that she’s half crazy but that’s why you want to be there.”
“You want to travel with her and you want to travel blind.”
“You know that she will trust you, for you’ve touched her perfect body with your mind.“
“Only drowning men could see him.”
“All men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them.”
“He, himself, was broken long before the sky would open.”
“He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.”
“You think maybe you’ll trust him.”
“She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters.”
“They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever,”
“You don’t really care for music, do you?”
“Your faith was strong but you needed proof.”
“Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.”
“She broke your throne and she cut your hair.”
“From your lips she drew the Hallelujah.”
“You say I took the name in vain but I don’t even know the name.”
“There’s a blaze of light in every word.It doesn’t matter which you heard.”
“I did my best, it wasn’t much.”
“I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch.”
“I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.”
“And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.”
“Like a knight from some old fashioned book, I have saved all my ribbons for thee.”
“If I have been unkind, I hope that you can just let it go by.”
“If I have been untrue I hope you know it was never to you.”
“I have torn everyone who reached out for me.”
“I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.”
“You must not ask for so much.”
“Hey, why not ask for more?”
“I have tried in my way to be free.”
“She’s rubbing half the world against her thigh.”
“It’s partner found, it’s partner lost and it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops.”
“We’re lonely, we’re romantic and the cider’s laced with acid.”
“I swear it happened just like this: a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss.”
“I can’t say much has happened since closing time.”
“I loved you for your beauty but that doesn’t make a fool of me. You were in it for your beauty too.”
“There’s a voice that sounds like God to me declaring that your body’s really you.”
“I loved you when our love was blessed and I love you now there’s nothing left but sorrow and a sense of overtime.”
“Looks like freedom but it feels like death. It’s something in between, I guess.”
“We’re drinking and we’re dancing but there’s nothing really happening.”
“The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.”
“I lift my glass to the Awful Truth.”
“It’s once for the devil and once for Christ.”
“I loved you when our love was blessed, I love you now there’s nothing left.”
“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within.”
“I’m coming now, I’m coming to reward them.”
“I’m guided by a signal in the heavens.”
“I’m guided by this birthmark on my skin.”
“I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons.”
“I told you, I was one of those.”
“You loved me as a loser, but now you’re worried that I just might win.”
“You know the way to stop me, but you don’t have the discipline.”
“How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin.”
“I practiced every night, now I’m ready.”
“Well it’s Father’s Day and everybody’s wounded.”
“First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”
“If you are the dealer, I’m out of the game.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It’s written in the scriptures and it’s not some idle claim.”
“I struggled with some demons, they were middle class and tame.”
“I didn’t know I had permission to murder and to maim.”
“A million candles burning for the love that never came.”
“If you are the dealer, let me out of the game.”
“If you are the healer, I’m broken and lame.”
“Maybe I’m still hurting, I can’t turn the other cheek.”
“You know that I still love you, it’s just that I can’t speak.”
“I looked for you in everyone.”
“I lived alone but I was only coming back to you.”
“They’re handing down my sentence now and I know what I must do.”
“There are many in your life and many still to be.”
“Even in your arms, I know I’ll never get it right.”
“I’ve got to have your word on this or none of it is true.”
