[ti:The Traitor]
[ar:Leonard Cohen]
[al:Recent Songs]
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[00:02.69]The Traitor - Leonard Cohen
[00:22.98]Now the swan it floated on the english river
[00:31.80]Ah the rose of high romance it opened wide
[00:41.80]A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer
[00:50.80]And the judges watched us from the other side
[01:00.73]I told my mother mother I must leave you
[01:10.23]Preserve my room but do not shed a tear
[01:19.36]Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
[01:28.48]It was half my fault and half the atmosphere
[01:37.80]But the rose I sickened with a scarlet fever
[01:47.05]And the swan I tempted with a sense of shame
[01:56.48]She said at last I was her finest lover
[02:05.80]And if she withered I would be to blame
[02:15.67]The judges said you missed it by a fraction
[02:24.98]Rise up and brace your troops for the attack
[02:33.73]Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action
[02:43.30]Oh see the men of action falling back
[02:52.05]But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment
[03:01.43]I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
[03:10.30]My falsity had stung me like a hornet
[03:19.23]The poison sank and it paralysed my will
[03:28.23]I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers
[03:37.05]That they had been deserted from above
[03:45.48]So on battlefields from here to barcelona
[03:54.86]Im listed with the enemies of love
[04:05.61]
[04:06.78]And long ago she said I must be leaving
[04:15.53]Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
[04:24.47]You can move it up and down and when Im sleeping
[04:33.66]Run some wire through that rose and wind the swan
[04:43.09]So daily I renew my idle duty
[04:51.96]I touch her here and there I know my place
[05:01.02]I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty
[05:09.96]And people call me traitor to my face