Master Song-Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo

[ti:Master Song] [ar:Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo] [al:Mojo: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Master Song - Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo [00:11.35]I believe that you heard your master sing [00:16.71] [00:17.31]When I was sick in bed [00:21.25] [00:22.93]I suppose that he told you everything [00:28.70]That I keep locked away in my head [00:33.04] [00:34.48]Your master took you travelling [00:39.07] [00:39.95]Well at least that's what you said [00:45.02] [00:45.57]And now do you come back to bring [00:51.79]Your prisoner wine and bread [01:00.55] [01:06.31]You met him at some temple [01:10.50] [01:11.30]Where they take your clothes at the door [01:16.23] [01:17.35]He was just a numberless man in a chair [01:23.23]Who'd just come back from the war [01:27.31] [01:28.77]And you wrap up his tired face in your hair [01:34.66]And he hands you the apple core [01:40.02]Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare [01:46.05]Of all the kisses we put on some time before [01:54.72] [02:00.45]And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk [02:06.35]With a collar of leather and nails [02:11.86]And he never once made you explain or talk [02:17.61]About all of the little details [02:22.98]Such as who had a word and who had a rock [02:28.72]And who had you through the mails [02:34.15]Now your love is a secret all over the block [02:40.25]And it never stops not even when your master fails [02:48.52] [02:49.57]En en [02:58.95] [03:00.06]And he took you up in his aeroplane [03:05.03] [03:05.57]Which he flew without any hands [03:11.41]And you cruised above the ribbons of rain [03:17.35]That drove the crowd from the stands [03:22.47] [03:22.98]Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane [03:28.75]And an ape with angel's glands [03:34.50]Erased the final wisps of pain [03:39.98]With the music of rubber bands [03:49.50] [03:54.31]And now I hear your master sing [03:59.38] [04:00.09]You kneel for him to come [04:04.92] [04:05.55]His body is a golden string [04:11.22]That your body is hanging from [04:16.45] [04:17.13]His body is a golden string [04:22.79]My body has grown numb [04:28.60]Oh now you hear your master sing [04:34.23]Your shirt is all undone [04:43.18] [04:48.60]And will you kneel beside this bed [04:54.06]That we polished so long ago [04:59.06] [05:00.20]Before your master choose instead [05:05.78]To make my bed of snow [05:10.60] [05:11.44]Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red [05:17.08]And you're speaking far too low [05:22.30]No I can't make out what your master said [05:29.00]Before he made you go [05:36.42] [05:38.36]En en [05:48.20] [05:48.77]Then I think you're playing far too rough [05:54.65]For a lady who's been to the moon [05:59.37] [06:00.45]I've lain by this window long enough [06:05.82]To get used to an empty room [06:10.72] [06:11.38]And your love is some dust in an old man's cough [06:17.12]Who is tapping his foot to a tune [06:22.84]And your thighs are a ruin you want too much [06:29.05]Let's say you came back some time too soon [06:37.75] [06:43.29]I loved your master perfectly [06:48.24] [06:49.04]I taught him all that he knew [06:53.57] [06:54.50]He was starving in some deep mystery [07:00.14]Like a man who is sure what is true [07:04.95] [07:05.75]And I sent you to him with my guarantee [07:11.34]I could teach him something new [07:16.95]And I taught him how you would long for me [07:23.10]No matter what he said no matter what you'd do [07:31.73] [07:37.26]I believe you heard your master sing [07:43.09]While I was sick in bed [07:47.54] [07:48.63]I'm sure that he told you everything [07:53.31] [07:53.85]I must keep locked away in my head [07:58.26] [07:59.54]Your master took you travelling [08:04.32] [08:05.07]Well at least that's what you said [08:10.28] [08:11.11]And now do you come back to bring [08:16.86]Your prisoner wine and bread