The Traitor - Leonard Cohen

The Traitor LRC歌词

[00:22.430]Now the swan it floated

[00:24.940]On the english river

[00:31.790]Ah the rose of high romance

[00:36.760]It opened wide

[00:41.890]A sun tanned woman yearned me

[00:46.200]Through the summer

[00:50.930]And the judges watched us

[00:53.940]From the other side

[01:00.880]I told my mother mother

[01:05.190]I must leave you

[01:10.300]Preserve my room

[01:12.540]But do not shed a tear

[01:19.600]Should rumour of a shabby

[01:23.810]Ending reach you

[01:28.480]It was half my fault

[01:31.290]And half the atmosphere

[01:38.010]But the rose I sickened

[01:41.030]With a scarlet fever

[01:47.390]And the swan I tempted

[01:50.240]With a sense of shame

[01:56.810]She said at last

[01:59.280]I was her finest lover

[02:06.130]And if she withered

[02:08.590]I would be to blame

[02:16.060]The judges said you missed it

[02:20.770]By a fraction

[02:25.390]Rise up and brace

[02:27.690]Your troops for the attack

[02:34.100]Ah the dreamers ride

[02:36.820]Against the men of action

[02:43.690]Oh see the men of action

[02:47.830]Falling back

[02:52.500]But I lingered on her thighs

[02:56.300]A fatal moment

[03:01.890]I kissed her lips

[03:04.090]As though I thirsted still

[03:10.850]My falsity had stung me

[03:14.730]Like a hornet

[03:19.710]The poison sank

[03:21.620]And it paralysed my will

[03:28.750]I could not move to warn

[03:31.760]All the younger soldiers

[03:37.600]That they had been

[03:39.800]Deserted from above

[03:46.020]So on battlefields

[03:48.780]From here to barcelona

[03:55.530]I'm listed with the enemies of love

[04:06.870]And long ago she said

[04:10.240]I must be leaving

[04:16.100]Ah but keep my body here to lie upon

[04:25.160]You can move it up

[04:27.390]And down and when I'm sleeping

[04:34.180]Run some wire through

[04:36.760]That rose and wind the swan

[04:43.720]So daily I renew my idle duty

[04:52.730]I touch her here and there

[04:56.820]I know my place

[05:01.720]I kiss her open mouth

[05:04.750]And I praise her beauty

[05:10.680]And people call me traitor to my face