Lyrics Leonard Cohen – Villanelle For Our Time
Text:
From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.
Album
Leonard Cohen – Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather
Leonard Cohen – Tennessee Waltz (Live)
Leonard Cohen – The Faith
Leonard Cohen – To A Teacher
Leonard Cohen – Nightingale
Leonard Cohen – Dear Heather
Leonard Cohen – There For You
Leonard Cohen – Villanelle For Our Time
Leonard Cohen – On That Day
Leonard Cohen – Morning Glory
Leonard Cohen – Undertow
Leonard Cohen – The Letters
Leonard Cohen – Because Of
Leonard Cohen – Go No More A–Roving