quarta-feira, 5 de novembro de 2014

Poems and Songs Leonard Cohen. «O send out the raven ahead of the dove. O sing from your chains where you're chained in a cave your eyes through my eyes shine brighter than love your blood in my ballad collapses the grave»

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Prayer for messiah
«His blood on my arm is warm as a bird
his heart in my hand is heavy as lead
his eyes through my eyes shine brighter than love.
O send out the raven ahead of the dove.

His life in my mouth is less than a man
his death on my breast is harder than stone
his eyes through my eyes shine brighter than love.
O send out the raven ahead of the dove.

O send out the raven ahead of the dove.
O sing from your chains where you're chained in a cave
your eyes through my eyes shine brighter than love
your blood in my ballad collapses the grave.

O sing from your chains where you're chained in a cave
your eyes through my eyes shine brighter than love
your heart in my hand is heavy as lead
your blood on my arm is warm as a bird.

O break from your branches a green branch of love
after the raven has died for the dove».




When this merican woman
«When this American woman,
whose thighs are bound in casual red cloth,
comes thundering past my sitting-place
like a forest-burning Mongol tribe,
the city is ravished
and brittle buildings of a hundred years
splash into the street;
and my eyes are burnt
for the embroidered Chinese girls,
already old,
and so small between the thin pines
on these enormous landscapes,
that if you turn your head
they are lost for hours».

In Leonard Cohen, Poems and Songs, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 1993, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84159-787-4.

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