Master Song-Leonard Cohen

[ti:Master Song] [ar:Leonard Cohen] [al:BBC Broadcasts 1968 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Master Song - Leonard Cohen (莱昂纳德·科恩) [00:06.83]Written by：Leonard Cohen [00:13.66]I believe that you heard your master sing [00:17.47] [00:19.09]When I was sick in bed [00:22.09] [00:24.11]I suppose that he told you everything [00:27.64] [00:29.23]That I keep locked away in my head [00:32.51] [00:34.47]Your master took you travelling [00:37.86] [00:39.48]Well at least that's that's what you said [00:42.43] [00:44.55]And now do you come back to bring [00:48.91]Your prisoner wine and bread [00:54.91] [01:01.96]You met him at some temple where [01:07.09]They take your clothes at the door [01:10.06] [01:11.92]He was just a numberless man in a chair [01:16.09] [01:16.94]Who'd just come back from the war [01:19.94] [01:21.82]And you wrap up his tired face in your hair [01:25.93] [01:26.82]And he hands you the apple core [01:29.96] [01:31.74]Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare [01:36.41]Of all the kisses we put on some time before [01:42.53] [01:49.61]And he gave you a german shepherd to walk [01:53.96] [01:54.87]With a collar of leather and nails [01:57.89] [01:59.82]And he never once made you explain or talk [02:03.93] [02:04.81]About all of the little details [02:07.57] [02:09.71]Such as who had a word and who had a rock [02:13.74] [02:14.90]And who had you through the mails [02:17.97] [02:19.36]Now your love is a secret all over the block [02:24.42]And it never stops not even when your master fails [02:30.49] [02:37.51]And he took you up in his aeroplane [02:41.05] [02:42.44]Which he flew without any hands [02:45.53] [02:47.39]And you cruised above the ribbons of rain [02:51.38] [02:52.55]That drove the crowd from the stands [02:55.66] [02:57.48]Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane [03:01.03] [03:02.33]And an ape with angel glands [03:05.66] [03:07.31]Erased the final wisps of pain [03:12.09]With the music of rubber bands [03:17.76] [03:24.87]And now I hear your master sing [03:28.62] [03:29.75]You kneel for him to come [03:32.77] [03:34.72]His body is a golden string [03:38.66] [03:39.29]That your body is hanging from [03:42.71] [03:44.76]His body is a golden string [03:48.89]My body has grown numb [03:52.96] [03:54.54]Oh now you hear your master sing [03:58.93]Your shirt is all undone [04:05.17] [04:12.09]And will you kneel beside this bed [04:15.89] [04:17.02]That we polished so long ago [04:19.94] [04:21.98]Before your master chose instead [04:25.50] [04:26.94]To make my bed of snow [04:29.77] [04:31.76]Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red [04:35.81]And you're speaking far too low [04:39.55] [04:40.78]No I can't make out what your master said [04:45.32] [04:45.93]Before he made you go [04:51.12] [04:58.09]Then I think you're playing far too rough [05:01.79] [05:03.15]For a lady who's been to the moon [05:05.75] [05:07.91]I've lain by this window long enough [05:11.17] [05:12.61]To get used to an empty room [05:15.62] [05:17.46]And your love is some dust in an old man's cough [05:21.57]Who is tapping his foot to a tune [05:25.26] [05:26.59]And your thighs are a ruin you want too much [05:31.02] [05:31.60]Let's say you came back some time too soon [05:37.26] [05:43.59]I loved your master perfectly [05:46.56] [05:48.34]I taught him all that he knew [05:51.13] [05:53.00]He was starving in some deep mystery [05:56.39] [05:57.80]Like a man who is sure what is true [06:00.62] [06:02.36]And I sent you to him with my guarantee [06:06.93]I could teach him something new [06:10.00] [06:11.37]And I taught him how you would long for me [06:15.49] [06:16.19]No matter what he said no matter what you'd do [06:21.42] [06:28.07]I believe that you heard your master sing [06:31.59] [06:33.01]While I was sick in bed [06:35.67] [06:37.53]I'm sure that he told you everything [06:40.71] [06:42.05]I must keep locked away in my head [06:45.08] [06:46.77]Your master took you travelling [06:49.90] [06:51.14]Well at least that's what you said [06:54.28] [06:56.08]And now do you come back to bring [07:00.28]Your prisoner wine and bread