The Books

of

Leonard Cohen

Copyright © 1984 by
Leonard Cohen

Contents:

1 - I STOPPED TO LISTEN, BUT he did not come... 26 - SIT IN A CHAIR AND KEEP still...
2 - WHEN I LEFT THE KING I began to rehearse... 27 - ISRAEL, AND YOU WHO call yourself Israel...
3 - I HEARD MY SOUL SINGING... 28 - YOU WHO POUR MERCY INTO hell...
4 - AFTER SEARCHING AMONG the words... 29 - BLESS THE LORD, O MY soul...
5 - 'LET ME REST,' HE CRIED... 30 - HERE THE DESTRUCTION is subtle...
6 - SIT DOWN, MASTER, ON this rude chair of praises... 31 - WHEN I HAVE NOT RAGE...
7 - I PUSHED MY BODY FROM one city to another... 32 - WE CRY OUT FOR WHAT WE have lost...
8 - IN THE EYES OF MEN HE falls... 33 - YOU WHO QUESTION SOULS...
9 - BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HAS given each man a shield of loneliness... 34 - YOU ARE WITH ME STILL.
10 - YOU HAVE SWEETENED your word... 35 - I TURNED YOU TO STONE...
11 - HE CAME BACK FROM HIS prayer... 36 - THOUGH I DON'T BELIEVE, I come to you now...
12 - I DRAW ASIDE THE CURTAIN... 37 - IT IS ALL AROUND ME, THE darkness...
13 - FRIEND, WHEN YOU SPEAK this carefully... 38 - AS MY FATHERS WROTE, AS my mothers spoke...
14 - BLESSED ARE YOU WHO, among the numberless swept away in terror... 39 - FROM YOU ALONE TO YOU alone...
15 - THIS IS THE WAY WE SUMMON one another... 40 - LET ME NOT PRETEND YOU are with me...
16 - RETURN, SPIRIT, TO THIS lowly place... 41 - I LOOK FAR, I FORGET YOU...
17 - DID WE COME FOR NOTHING?... 42 - IT IS TO YOU I TURN...
18 - THEY KNOW ME AT THIS café... 43 - HOLY IS YOUR NAME...
19 - YOU LET ME SING, YOU lifted me up... 44 - THE MEDITATIONS OF THE great are above me...
20 - LIKE AN UNBORN INFANT swimming to be born... 45 - NOT KNOWING WHERE TO go...
21 - MY TEACHER GAVE ME what I do not need... 46 - HELP ME IN THE RAIN...
22 - YOUR CUNNING CHARLATAN is trying to whip up a frisson of grace... 47 - MY SOUL FINDS ITS PLACE in the Name...
23 - MY SISTER AND I BEING estranged... 48 - AWAKEN ME, LORD, FROM the dream of despair...
24 - IN THE THIN LIGHT of hunted pleasure... 49 - ALL MY LIFE IS BROKEN unto you...
25 - MY SON AND I LIVED IN A cave... 50 - I LOST MY WAY...

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