Leonard Cohen – Alexandra Leaving (Guitar)

F                            Dm
Suddenly the night has grown colder.

C                  Bb     C    F
The god of love preparing to depart.

                         Dm
Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,

Bb                             C      F
They slip between the sentries of the heart.

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Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,

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They gain the light, they formlessly entwine

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And radiant beyond your widest measure

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They fall among the voices and the wine.

           Bb          C            Dm
It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving,

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A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust

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Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.

                    C         F
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

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Even though she sleeps upon your satin

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Even though she wakes you with a kiss.

                           Dm
Do not say the moment was imagined

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Do not stoop to strategies like this.

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As someone long prepared for this to happen,

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Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.

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Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.

Bb                          C   F
Your first commitments tangible again.

            Bb      C            Dm
And you who had the honor of her evening,

           Bb                    C
And by the honor had your own restored

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Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.

          C              F
Alexandra leaving with her lord.

                Bb      C        Dm
Even though she sleeps upon your satin

                Bb        C      Dm
Even though she wakes you with a kiss.

               Bb     C    Dm
Do not say the moment was imagined

                Bb              C
Do not stoop to strategies like this.

F                                  Dm
As someone long prepared for the occasion

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In full command of every plan you wrecked

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Do not choose a coward's explanation

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that hides behind the cause and the effect.

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And you who were bewildered by a meaning

               Bb                 C           
Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed

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Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.

                    C         F
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

               Dm        Bb
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.

                    C         F
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.