[ti:Field Commander Cohen]
[ar:Leonard Cohen]
[al:Field Commander Cohen: Tour of]
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[00:01.81]Field Commander Cohen - Leonard Cohen
[00:07.74]Field commander cohen,
[00:09.86]
[00:10.65]he was our most important spy.
[00:14.94]
[00:18.00]Wounded in the line of duty,
[00:21.60]
[00:23.04]Parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties,
[00:31.78]
[00:32.78]Urging fidel castro to abandon fields and castles.
[00:40.51]
[00:41.07]Leave it all and like a man,
[00:44.42]
[00:45.72]Come back to nothing special,
[00:49.23]
[00:50.35]Such as waiting rooms and ticket lines,
[00:54.18]and Silver bullet suicides,
[00:57.62]And messianic ocean tides,
[01:01.04]And racial roller-coaster rides
[01:04.66]And other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.
[01:10.97]
[01:18.08]I know you need your sleep now,
[01:20.58]
[01:21.58]I know your lifes been hard.
[01:25.45]
[01:27.42]But many men have fallen
[01:30.29]Where you promised to stand guard.
[01:34.81]
[01:35.74]I never asked but I heard that you
[01:40.37]cast your lot along with the poor.
[01:44.76]
[01:47.38]Have I overheard your prayer,
[01:50.81]
[01:52.25]That you be this and nothing more
[01:56.22]Than just some grateful faithful womans
[02:01.46]
[02:02.08]favourite singing millionaire,
[02:06.08]The patron saint of envy and the grocer of despair,
[02:14.45]
[02:17.32]Working for the yankee dollar.
[02:23.07]
[02:46.90]I know you need your sleep now
[02:49.40]
[02:50.60]I know your life  s been hard
[02:53.84]
[02:55.59]But many men are falling
[02:57.78]
[02:58.52]Where you promised to stand guard
[03:02.39]
[03:03.64]Ah, lover come and lie with me,
[03:08.60]if my lover is who you really are,
[03:12.15]
[03:15.39]And be your sweetest self awhile
[03:19.01]
[03:20.51]until I ask for more, my child.
[03:24.32]Then let the other selves be wrong,
[03:29.07]yeah, let them manifest and come
[03:34.38]
[03:35.54]Till love is pierced and love is hung,
[03:39.03]
[03:40.03]Til every taste is on the tongue
[03:43.50]
[03:44.88]And every kind of freedom done, then oh,
[03:49.47]
[03:50.48]Oh my love
[03:52.04]
[03:54.57]Oh my love, oh my love, oh my love.