Lady Midnight
Leonard Cohen • Key:
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Lady Midnight
Leonard Cohen
#From: ADI@chemie.uni-regensburg.de (adi)
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came by my-self t
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o a very c
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rowded place;
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I was looking for someo
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ne who had lines in her
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face.
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I found her there but sh
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e was past all con
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-cern;
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I a
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sked her to hold
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me,
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sa
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id, "Lady, un-fold me
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she
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scorned me and she told me
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I was dea
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d and
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I could never re-turn.
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Well, I argued all night like so many have before,
saying, "Whatever you give me, I seem to need so much more."
Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor,
she said, "Don't try to use me or slyly refuse me,
just win me or lose me,
it is this that the darkness is for."
I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old,
the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold."
"If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
So I walked through the morning, sweet early morning,
I could hear my lady calling,
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You've won
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me, you've won me, my
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lord,
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you've won
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me, you've won me, my
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lord,
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yes, you've won
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me, you've won me, m
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y lord,
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ah, you've won
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me, you've won me, m
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y lord,
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ah, you've won
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me, you've won me, m
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y lord."
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Speed