Songs from a Living Room

Love Itself The light came through the window Straight from the sun above And so inside my little room There plunged the rays of love In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the nameless makes A name for one like me I'll try to say a little more Love went on and on Until it reached an open door Then love itself Love itself was gone All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance (I'll try to say……) Then I came back from where I'd been My room, it looked the same But there was nothing left between The nameless and the name (I'll try to say ……) In My Secret Life I saw you this morning You were moving so fast Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past And I miss you so much There's no one in sight And we're still making love (In my secret life) I smile when I'm angry I cheat and I lie I do what I have to do To get by But I know what is wrong And I know what is right And I'd die for the truth (In my secret life) Hold on, hold on, my brother My sister, hold on tight I finally got my orders I'll be marching through the morning Marching through the night Moving cross the borders Of my secret life Looked through the paper Makes you want to cry Nobody cares if the people Live or die And the dealer wants you thinking That it's either black or white Thank God it's not that simple In my secret life I bite my lip I buy what I'm told From the latest hit To the wisdom of old But I'm always alone And my heart is like ice And it's crowded and cold (In my secret life) I Can't Forget I stumbled out of bed I got ready for the struggle I smoked a cigarette And I tightened up my gut I said this can't be me Must be my double And I can't forget (I can't forget) I can't forget (I can't forget) I can't forget but I don't remember what I'm burning up the road I'm heading down to Phoenix I got this old address Of someone that I knew It was high and fine and free Ah, you should have seen us And I can't forget (I can't forget) I can't forget (I can't forget) I can't forget but I don't remember who I'll be there today With a big bouquet of cactus I got this rig that runs on memories And I promise, cross my heart They'll never catch us But if they do, just tell them it was me Yeah I loved you all my life And that's how I want to end it The summer's almost gone The winter's tuning up Yeah, the summer's gone But a lot goes on forever And I can't forget (I can't forget) I can't forget (I can't forget) I can't forget but I don't remember what Night Comes On I went down to the place Where I knew she lay waiting Under the marble and the snow I said, "Mother I'm frightened The thunder and the lightning I'll never come through this alone" She said, "I'll be with you My shawl wrapped around you My hand on your head when you go" And the night came on It was very calm I wanted the night to go on and on But she said, "Go back, go back to the world" We were fightin' in Egypt When they signed this agreement That nobody else had to die There was this terrible sound My father went down With a terrible wound in his side He said, "Try to go on Take my books, take my gun Remember, my son, how they lied" And the night comes on It's very calm I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong But you don't want to lie, not to the young We were locked in this kitchen I took to religion And I wondered how long she would stay I needed so much To have nothing to touch I've always been greedy that way But my son and my daughter Climbed out of the water Crying, "Papa, you promised to play" And they lead me away To the great surprise It's "Papa, don't peek, Papa, cover your eyes" And they hide, they hide in the world Now I look for her always I'm lost in this calling I'm tied to the threads of some prayer Saying, "When will she summon me When will she come to me What must I do to prepare" When she bends to my longing Like a willow, like a fountain She stands in the luminous air And the night comes on It's very calm I lie in her arms, she says, "When I'm gone I'll be yours, yours for a song" Now the crickets are singing The vesper bells ringing The cat's curled asleep in his chair I'll go down to Bill's Bar I can make it that far And I'll see if my friends are still there Yes, and here's to the few Who forgive what you do And the fewer who don't even care And the night comes on It's very calm I want to cross over, I want to go home But she says, "Go back, go back to the world" Alexandra Leaving Suddenly the night has grown colder The god of love preparing to depart Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder, They slip between the sentries of the heart Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure They gain the light, they formlessly entwine And radiant beyond your widest measure They fall among the voices and the wine It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost Even though she sleeps upon your satin Even though she wakes you with a kiss Do not say the moment was imagined Do not stoop to strategies like this As someone long prepared for this to happen Go firmly to the window, drink it in Exquisite music Alexandra laughing Your first commitments tangible again And you who had the honor of her evening, And by the honor had your own restored Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving Alexandra leaving with her Lord (Even though she sleeps upon your satin) As someone long prepared for the occasion In full command of every plan you wrecked Do not choose a coward's explanation that hides behind the cause and the effect And you who were bewildered by a meaning Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost Be for Real Are you back in my life to stay Or is it just for today Oh that you're gonna need me? If it's a thrill you're looking for Honey, I'm flexible. Oh, yeah. Just be for real won't you, Baby Be for real oh, Baby You see I, I don't want to be hurt by love again So you see I'm not naive. I just would like to believe Ah what you tell me. So don't give me the world today And tomorrow take it away. Don't do that to me, darling. Just be for real won't you, Baby Be for real won't you, Baby Been hurt so many times You see I, I don't want to be hurt by love again. (I don't give a damn about the truth, Baby Except for the naked truth. Oh yeah) Just be for real won't you, Baby Be for real won't you, Baby No, no, no, no It's just that I, I don't want to be hurt by love again. Bird On the Wire Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free Like a worm on a hook Like a knight from some old-fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee If I, if I have been unkind I hope that you can just let it go by If I, if I have been untrue I hope you know it was never to you like a baby, stillborn Like a beast with his horn I have torn everyone who reached out for me But I swear by this song And by all that I have done wrong I will make it all up to thee I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch He said to me, "you must not ask for so much" And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door She cried to me, "hey, why not ask for more?" Oh, like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free Ain't No Cure for Love I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong That don't change the way I feel And I can't believe that time is Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of There ain't no cure There ain't no cure There ain't no cure for love I'm aching for you baby I can't pretend I'm not I need to see you naked In your body and your thought I got you like a habit And I'll never get enough (There ain't no cure….) There ain't no cure for love There ain't no cure for love All the rocket ships are climbin' through the sky The holy books are open wide The doctors working day and night But they'll never ever find that cure for love Ain't no drink no drug (Ah tell them, angels) There's nothing pure enough to be a cure for love I see you in the subway and I see you on the bus I see you lyin' down with me, I see you wakin' up I see your hand, I see your hair Your bracelets and your brush And I call to you, I call to you But I don't call soft enough (There ain't no cure….) I walked into this empty church, I had no place else to go When the sweetest voice I ever heard whispered to my soul I don't need to be forgiven for loving you so much It's written in the scriptures It's written there in blood I even heard the angels declare it from above There ain't no cure There ain't no cure, there ain't no cure for love There ain't no cure for love There ain't no cure for love All the rocket ships are climbin' through the sky The holy books are open wide The doctors working day and night But they'll never-ever find that (cure for love) That cure for love (That cure for love) (No cure for love) (There ain't no cure for love) (No cure for love, there ain't no cure for love) כל השירים נכתבו והולחנו על ידי לאונרד כהן ושרון רובינסון למעט השיר Be for Real שנכתב ע״י פרדריק דאגלס נייט מתן בן צבי - עיבודים, שירה, נגינה, הקלטה, מיקס. אורי ״מיקסמונסטר״ ורטהיים - מאסטרינג דניאלה תורג'מן - שירה -  Alexandra Leaving, In My Secret Life, Love Itself נועה ברירו -שירה -  Be for Real ו Ain't no Cure for Love אלה גריצמן - קולות רקע - Be for Real, Ain't No Cure for Love דן ליד - Pedal steel guitar -  Ain't no Cure for Love ג׳ארט קוק - Pedal steel guitar - Alexandra Leaving עטיפה - מיכל גבע, טל פוגל הפצה: קמע תמונת פרומו הורד תמונת עטיפה הורד more... 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