[ti:Take This Waltz]
[ar:Leonard Cohen]
[al:The Essential Leonard Cohen]
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[00:00.26]Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz
[00:04.25]Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
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[00:10.01]There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
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[00:15.07]There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
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[00:20.01]There's a tree where the doves go to die
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[00:24.82]There's a piece that was torn from the morning
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[00:30.19]And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
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[00:36.01]Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
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[00:39.95]Take this waltz, take this waltz
[00:44.40]Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
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[00:55.21]Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
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[01:00.68]On a chair with a dead magazine
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[01:05.68]In the cave at the tip of the lily
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[01:10.37]In some hallways where love's never been
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[01:15.75]On a bed where the moon has been sweating
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[01:20.74]In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
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[01:26.31]Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
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[01:30.51]Take this waltz, take this waltz
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[01:35.62]Take its broken waist in your hand
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[01:46.31]This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
[01:51.17]With its very own breath of brandy and Death
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[01:56.63]Dragging its tail in the sea
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[02:03.63]There's a concert hall in Vienna
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[02:09.07]Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
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[02:14.13]There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
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[02:18.82]They've been sentenced to death by the blues
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[02:24.01]Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
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[02:29.35]With a garland of freshly cut tears?
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[02:34.85]Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
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[02:39.04]Take this waltz, take this waltz
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[02:43.98]Take this waltz it's been dying for years
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[02:54.59]There's an attic where children are playing
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[02:59.90]Where I've got to lie down with you soon
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[03:04.96]In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
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[03:09.40]In the mist of some sweet afternoon
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[03:14.90]And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
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[03:19.90]All your sheep and your lilies of snow
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[03:25.46]Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
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[03:29.77]Take this waltz, take this waltz
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[03:34.40]With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"
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[03:45.52]This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
[03:50.35]With its very own breath of brandy and Death
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[03:55.85]Dragging its tail in the sea
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[04:02.73]And I'll dance with you in Vienna
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[04:07.79]I'll be wearing a river's disguise
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[04:13.16]The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
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[04:18.23]My mouth on the dew of your thighs
[04:22.09]
[04:23.27]And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
[04:26.90]
[04:28.28]With the photographs there, and the moss
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[04:33.09]And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
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[04:38.40]My cheap violin and my cross
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[04:43.46]And you'll carry me down on your dancing
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[04:48.59]To the pools that you lift on your wrist
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[04:53.26]Oh my love, Oh my love
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[04:58.39]Take this waltz, take this waltz
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[05:03.76]It's yours now. It's all that there is