#burning violin

[kayhossro]

Remembering Leonard Cohen's burning violin.

[storier-blog]

[D. M. tt E. o L.]

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

            Stoke the hearth with floorboards and all the extra chairs

Dance me through the panic until I’m gathered safely in

            Find me moving song trails on the empty center wind

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove

            Who’s the dancer, and who’s the singer of this song?

Dance me to the end of love

[D. M. tt E. o L.]

  O let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone

            O let the lights remain in the absence of your eyes

Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon

            A lily of the valley, says the Book of ancient lines

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of

            Beneath the waves are holy scary fish with golden fins

Dance me to the end of love

[D. M. tt E. o L.]

  Dance me to the wedding now; dance me on and on

            Each day a ceremony ties us to the Race

Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long

            Let the fetters keep us for I cannot think to swim

We’re both of us beneath our love; we’re both of us above

            We hold sand and water; we hold each other strong

Dance me to the end of love

[D. M. tt E. o L.]

  Dance me to the children, who are asking to be born

            Sing the pronouns heavy for the hope of someday soon

Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn

            Shuffling feet in slippers in the halls of senior homes

Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn

            Strike a post in marble; the stairs are backwards long

Dance me to the end of love

[D. M. tt E. o L.]

  Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

            Stoke the hearth with table legs and the very walls

Dance me through the panic until I’m gathered safely in

            Find me roaming song lines for that empty center wind

Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove

Dance me to the end of love

[D. M. tt E. o L.]

[D. M. tt E. o L.]