Avalanche (Live Oct 12, 2008; Gothenburg Scandinavium, Gothengurg, Sweden)

Avalanche (Live Oct 12, 2008|Gothenburg Scandinavium, Gothengurg, Sweden) - Leonard Cohen

Well I stepped into an avalanche

It covered up my soul

When I am not this hunchback that you see

I sleep beneath the golden hill

You who wish to conquer pain

You must learn

Learn to serve me well

You strike my side by accident

As you go down for your gold

The cripple here

That you clothe and feed

Is neither starved nor cold

He does not ask for your company

Not at the centre

Of the world

When I am on a pedestal

You did not raise me there

Your laws do not compel me

To kneel grotesque and bare

I myself am the pedestal

For this ugly hump

At which you stare

You who wish to conquer pain

You must learn what makes me kind

The crumbs of love that you offer me

They're the crumbs i've left behind

Your pain is no credential here

It's just the shadow

Of my wound

I have begun to long for you

I who have no greed

I have begun to week for you

I who have no great

You say youve gone away from me

But I can feel you

Feel you when you breathe

Do not dress in those rags for me

I know you are not poor

You don't love me quite so fiercely now

When you know that you are not sure

It is your turn beloved

It is your flesh that I wear

It is your wrune beloved

It is your flesh that I wear