Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.
--Leonard Cohen
There is no comfort in the coven of the witch.
Some very clever Doctor went and sterilized the bitch.
--Leonard Cohen
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days.
One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
--Leonard Cohen
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for
all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
--Leonard Cohen
And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.
--Leonard Cohen
Oh like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.
--Leonard Cohen
Now Santa Claus comes forward, that's a razor in his mit;
and he puts on his dark glasses and he shows you where to hit;
and then the cameras pan, the stand in stunt man, dress rehearsal rag
--Leonard Cohen
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