16 HORSEPOWER - Teachers lyrics

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(leonard cohen)<br><br>I met a woman long ago<br>Her hair the black that black can go,<br>Are you a teacher of the heart? <br>Soft she answered no.<br><br>I met a girl across the sea,<br>Her hair the gold that gold can be,<br>Are you a teacher of the heart? <br>Yes, but not for thee.<br><br>I met a man who lost his mind<br>In some lost place I had to find,<br>Follow me the wise man said,<br>But he walked behind.<br><br>I walked into a hospital<br>Where none was sick and none was well,<br>When at night the nurses left<br>I could not walk at all.<br><br>Morning came and then came noon,<br>Dinner time a scalpel blade<br>Lay beside my silver spoon.<br><br>Some girls wander by mistake<br>Into the mess that scalpels make.<br>Are you the teachers of my heart? <br>We teach old hearts to break.<br><br>One morning I woke up alone,<br>The hospital and the nurses gone.<br>Have I carved enough my lord? <br>Child, you are a bone.<br><br>I ate and ate and ate,<br>No I did not miss a plate, well<br>How much do these suppers cost? <br>We'll take it out in hate.<br><br>I spent my hatred everyplace,<br>On every work on every face,<br>Someone gave me wishes<br>And I wished for an embrace.<br><br>Several girls embraced me, then<br>I was embraced by men,<br>Is my passion perfect? <br>No, do it once again.<br><br>I was handsome I was strong,<br>I knew the words of every song.<br>Did my singing please you? <br>No, the words you sang were wrong.<br><br>Who is it whom I address,<br>Who takes down what I confess? <br>Are you the teachers of my heart? <br>We teach old hearts to rest.<br><br>Oh teachers are my lessons done? <br>I cannot do another one.<br>They laughed and laughed and said, well child,<br>Are your lessons done? <br>Are your lessons done? <br>Are your lessons done?