Coming Back
Leonard Cohen

(Written By Cohen, Performed In Night Magic)


(Angels) You can't do this

You must do what

We must do what must be done


(Judy) I hear my baby calling

He is asking to be born

I see the curtains parting

That our kisses have outworn...


(Angels) Kisses all outworn...


(Judy) I'll raise a tent of shelter

Now though every thread is torn


(Angels) Every thread is torn...


(Judy) I take my life from realms of light

And hang it on a thorn


(Angels) Hanging on a thorn...


(Judy) I hear the children calling

Asking to be born

I see the curtains parting

And my life upon a thorn


The stars have lost their fire

And the moon has lost her voice

And I'm coming back to find you

I have made the human choice.


(Angels) You've made your choice

The world you choose

Garlands of planets and starlight

Now you lose


(Judy) He's the only one who knows me

He's the riddle of my life

And they'll never tell the story

Of the husband and the wife


(Angels) The world she chooses, she loses...


(Judy) He's the stone that broke my heart

The foundation of my home --


(Angels) This we must do!


(Judy) He's the sweetness of the sweetness

Of the sweetness honeycomb


(Angels) We must do what we must do!


(Judy) And he's welcome to his glory

And he's buried in my life

And they'll never tell the story

Of the husband and the wife


(Angels) She takes her life from realms of light


(Valkyries) She hangs it on a thorn


(Angels) She disobeys the law


(Valkyries) The law is broken

You must get them


(Angels) Get him.


(Valkyries) Get them!


Messenger

Listen

Messenger

Do what must be done

And our will be done

Will be done


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