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Boogie Street - Lyrics by Leonard Cohen


Lyrics
O Crown of Light, O Darkened One,
I never thought we
’d meet.

You kiss my lips, and then it
’s done:
I’m back on Boogie Street.

A sip of wine, a cigarette,

And then it
’s time to go.
I tidied up the kitchenette;
I tuned the old banjo.
I’m wanted at the traffic-jam.

They
’re saving me a seat.
I’m what I am, and what I am,

Is back on Boogie Street.


And O my love, I still recall

The pleasures that we knew;

The rivers and the waterfall,

Wherein I bathed with you.

Bewildered by your beauty there,
I’d kneel to dry your feet.

By such instructions you prepare
A man for Boogie Street.

O Crown of Light, O Darkened One



So come, my friends, be not afraid.

We are so lightly here.

It is in love that we are made;

In love we disappear.

Tho
’ all the maps of blood and flesh

Are posted on the door,

There
’s no one who has told us yet

What Boogie Street is for.

O Crown of Light, O Darkened One,
I never thought we
’d meet.

You kiss my lips, and then it
’s done:
I’m back on Boogie Street.

A sip of wine, a cigarette,

And then it
’s time to go . . .

Book: Reflection on the Important Things