Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
Lyrics
If you are the dealer, I’m out of the gameIf you are the healer, it means im broken and lameIf thine is the glory, then mine must be the shameYou want it darkerWe kill the flame
Magnified, sanctifiedBe the holy nameVilified, crucifiedIn the human frameA million candles burningFor the help that never cameYou want it darker
Hineni, hineniI’m ready, my Lord
There’s a lover in the storyBut the story’s still the sameThere’s a lullaby for sufferingAnd a paradox to blameBut it’s written in the scripturesAnd it’s not some idol claimYou want it darkerWe kill the flame
They’re lining up to prisonersAnd the guards are taking aimI struggle with some demonsThey were middle class and tameI didn’t know I had permissionTo murder and to maimYou want it darker
Hineni, hineniI’m ready, my Lord
Magnified, sanctifiedBe the holy nameVilified, crucifiedIn the human frameA million candles burningFor the love that never cameYou want it darkerWe kill the flame
If you are the dealer, let me out of the gameIf you are the healer, I’m broken and lameIf thine is the glory, mine must be the shameYou want it darker
Hineni, hineniHineni, hineniI’m ready, my Lord