Listen to Joan Of Arc (Live) song with lyrics from Leonard Cohen

Joan Of Arc (Live)

Leonard Cohen31 Jul 2020

Joan Of Arc (Live) Lyrics

 

Songs of love and hate

 

Now the flames they followed joan of arc

As she came riding through the dark

 

No moon to keep her armour bright

No man to get her through this very smoky night

 

She said

I'm tired of the war

 

I want the kind of work I had before

 

A wedding dress or something white

To wear upon my swollen appetite

 

Well

I'm glad to hear you talk this way

You know I've watched you riding every day

 

And something in me yearns to win

Such a cold and lonesome *******

 

And who are you she sternly spoke

 

To the one beneath the smoke

Why

 

I'm fire he replied

And I love your solitude

 

I love your pride

La la la la la la la

 

Then fire

 

Make your body cold

I'm going to give you mine to hold

Saying this she climbed inside

To be his one

 

To be his only bride

 

And deep into his fiery heart

 

He took the dust of joan of arc

And high above the wedding guests

He hung the ashes of her wedding dress

La la la la la la la

 

It was deep into his fiery heart

 

He took the dust of joan of arc

And then she clearly understood

If he was fire

Oh then she must be wood

I saw her wince

I saw her cry

I saw the glory in her eye

 

Myself I long for love and light

But must it come so cruel

And oh so bright

 

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