Stories of the Street-The Low Anthem

[ti:Stories of the Street] [ar:The Low Anthem] [al:Mojo: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stories of the Street - The Low Anthem [00:04.23]The stories of the street are mine [00:08.53]The spanish voices laugh [00:11.39] [00:13.74]Cadillacs go creeping down [00:16.38] [00:17.06]The night and the poison gas [00:20.40] [00:21.69]I lean from my window sill [00:25.66]This old hotel I choose [00:29.95]Yes one hand on my suicide [00:34.48]And one hand on the rose [00:38.63] [00:49.52]I know you've heard it's over now [00:52.97] [00:53.92]And war must surely come [00:57.06] [00:59.30]The cities they are broke in half [01:02.29] [01:02.91]And the middle men are gone [01:05.44] [01:06.98]But let me ask you one more time [01:10.82]Oh children of the dust [01:14.40] [01:15.79]Oh these hunters shrieking now [01:20.11]Do they speak for us [01:24.00] [01:35.39]And where all these highways go [01:38.55] [01:40.03]Now that we are free [01:42.30] [01:43.71]Why are the armies marching still [01:47.10] [01:47.71]That were coming home to me [01:50.84] [01:52.39]Oh lady with your legs so fine [01:55.55] [01:56.28]Oh stranger at your wheel [01:59.88] [02:00.49]You are locked into your suffering [02:04.72]Your pleasure is the seal [02:08.67] [02:20.07]The age of lust is giving birth [02:24.06]Both the parents ask [02:26.84] [02:27.96]The nurse to tell them fairy tales [02:32.06]On both sides of the glass [02:35.53] [02:36.48]Now the infant with his cord [02:40.33]Is hauled in like a kite [02:43.47] [02:44.36]With one eye filled with blueprints [02:48.58]And one eye filled with night [02:52.03] [03:03.01]So come with me my little one [03:06.44] [03:07.44]We will find that farm [03:10.35] [03:11.28]Grow us grass and apples there [03:14.66] [03:15.25]To keep the animals warm [03:18.60] [03:19.38]And if by chance I wake at night [03:23.01] [03:23.52]And I ask you who I am [03:27.03] [03:28.47]Take me to the slaughter house [03:31.84]I will wait there with the lamb [03:36.19] [03:46.93]With one hand on a hexagram [03:49.90] [03:51.04]And the other on a girl [03:54.19] [03:55.19]I balance on a wishing well [03:58.93] [03:59.45]That both men call the world [04:03.19] [04:03.96]We are so small between the stars [04:08.02]So large against the sky [04:10.87] [04:12.23]And lost among the subway crowds [04:16.53]I try to catch your eye