Different Sides

Different Sides (不同面) - Leonard Cohen (萊昂納德·科恩)

We find ourselves on different sides

Of a line nobody drew

Though it all may be one in the higher eye

Down here where we live it is two

I to my side call the meek and the mild

You to your side call the words

By virtue of suffering

I claim to have won

You claim to have never been heard

Both of us say there are laws to obey

Yeah but frankly

I don't like your tone whoa

You want to change the way I make love

But I want to leave it alone uh alone

The pull of the moon the thrust of the sun

Thus the ocean is crossed oh oh oh

The waters are blessed

While a shadowy guest

Kindles a light for the lost

Both of us say there are laws to obey

But frankly I don't like

Your tone whoa oh

You want to change the way

I make love

But I want to leave it alone

Down in the valley the famine goes on

The famine up on the hill

I say that you shouldn't

You couldn't you can't

You say that you must and you will

Oh oh oh oh oh

You want to live where the suffering is

I want to get out of town

Come on baby give me a kiss

Stop writing everything down

Both of us say there are laws to obey

Yeah but frankly

I don't like your tone whoa oh

You want to change the way

I make love

But I want to leave it alone

Whoa oh

Both of us say there are laws to obey

Frankly I don't like your tone whoa oh

You want to change the way

I make love

But I want to leave it alone

Whoa oh oh oh