Leonard Cohen – To A Teacher (Guitar)

C
Hurt once and for all into silence

C
A long pain ending without a song to prove it

                   F
Who could stand beside you so close to Eden,

F
When you glinted in every eye the held-high

         C
razor, shivering every ram and son?

C
And now the silent loony bin, where

C
The shadows live in the rafters like day-weary bats,

F
Until the turning mind, a radar signal, lures them to exaggerate

C
Mountain-size on the white stone wall

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Your tiny limp

F
How can I leave you in such a house?

F
Are there no more saints and wizards to praise their ways with pupils,

C
No more evil to stun with the slap of a wet red tongue?

G
Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror

                                 C
and rest because he had finally come?

        F
Let me cry help beside you, Teacher

F
I have entered under this dark roof

           C
As fearlessly as an honoured son enters his father's house