Leonard Cohen: New Skin For The Old Ceremony CD Track Listing

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Leonard Cohen New Skin For The Old Ceremony (1974)
YEAR: 1974
This rock cd contains 11 tracks and runs 37min 15sec.
Freedb: 9108b90b
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1. Leonard Cohen - Is This What You Wanted (04:17)
   You were the promise at dawn,\n\nI was the morning after.\n\nYou were Jesus Christ my Lord,\n\nI was the money lender.\n\nYou were the sensitive woman,\n\nI was the very reverend Freud.\n\nYou were the manual orgasm,\n\nI was the dirty little boy.\n\n\n\n
2. Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2 (03:07)
   I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,\n\nyou were talking so brave and so sweet,\n\ngiving me head on the unmade bed,\n\nwhile the limousines wait in the street.\n\nThose were the reasons and that was New York,\n\nwe were running for the money and the
3. Leonard Cohen - Lover Lover Lover (03:22)
   I asked my father,\n\nI said, "Father change my name."\n\nThe one I'm using now it's covered up\n\nwith fear and filth and cowardice and shame.\n\n\n\nYes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me,\n\nyes and lover, lover, lover,
4. Leonard Cohen - Field Commander Cohen (04:02)
   Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy.\n\nWounded in the line of duty,\n\nparachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties,\n\nurging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles.\n\nLeave it all and like a man,\n\ncome back to nothing speci
5. Leonard Cohen - Why Don't You Try (03:52)
   Why don't you try to do without him?\n\nWhy don't you try to live alone?\n\nDo you really need his hands for your passion?\n\nDo you really need his heart for your throne?\n\nDo you need his labour for your baby?\n\nDo you need his beast for the bone?\n\n
6. Leonard Cohen - There Is A War (03:02)
   There is a war between the rich and poor,\n\na war between the man and the woman.\n\nThere is a war between the ones who say there is a war\n\nand the ones who say there isn't.\n\n\n\nWhy don't you come on back to the war, that's right, get in it,\n\nwhy
7. Leonard Cohen - A Singer Must Die (03:20)
   Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess.\n\nIs it true you betrayed us? The answer is Yes.\n\nThen read me the list of the crimes that are mine,\n\nI will ask for the mercy that you love to decline.\n\nAnd all the ladies go moist, and the judge h
8. Leonard Cohen - I Tried To Leave You (02:41)
   I tried to leave you, I don't deny\n\nI closed the book on us, at least a hundred times.\n\nI'd wake up every morning by your side.\n\n\n\nThe years go by, you lose your pride.\n\nThe baby's crying, so you do not go outside,\n\nand all your work it's righ
9. Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire (02:36)
   And who by fire, who by water,\n\nwho in the sunshine, who in the night time,\n\nwho by high ordeal, who by common trial,\n\nwho in your merry merry month of may,\n\nwho by very slow decay,\n\nand who shall I say is calling?\n\n\n\nAnd who in her lonely s
10. Leonard Cohen - Take This Longing (04:09)
    Many men have loved the bells\n\nyou fastened to the rein,\n\nand everyone who wanted you\n\nthey found what they will always want again.\n\nYour beauty lost to you yourself\n\njust as it was lost to them.\n\n\n\nOh take this longing from my tongue,\n\nwh
11. Leonard Cohen - Leaving Green Sleeves (02:38)
    Alas, my love, you did me wrong,\n\nto cast me out discourteously,\n\nfor I have loved you so long,\n\ndelighting in your very company.\n\nI reached for you but you were gone,\n\nso lady I'm going too.\n\n\n\nGreen sleeves, you're all alone ...\n\n\n\nGre