LEONARD COHEN - Master Song lyrics

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I believe that you heard your master sing<br>When I was sick in bed<br>I suppose that he told you everything<br>That I keep locked away in my head<br>Your master took you traveling<br>Well, at least that's what you said<br>And now do you come back to bring<br>Your prisoner wine and bread<br><br>You met him at some temple<br>Where they take your clothes at the door<br>He was just a numberless man in a chair<br>Who had just come back from the war<br>And you wrap up his tired face in your hair<br>And he hands you the apple core<br>Then he touches your lips, now so suddenly bare<br>Of all the kisses we put on sometime before<br><br>And he gave you a german shepherd to walk<br>With a collar of leather and nails<br>And he never once made you explain or talk<br>About all of the little details<br>Such as who had a worm and who had a rock<br>And who had you through the mails<br>Now you love is a secret all over the block<br>And it never stops not even<br>When your master fails<br><br>And he took you up in his aeroplane<br>Which he flew without any hands<br>And you cruised above the ribbons of rain<br>That drove the crowds from the stands<br>Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane<br>And an ape with angel glands<br>Erased the final wisps of pain<br>With the music of rubber bands<br><br>And now I hear you master sing<br>You kneel for him to come<br>His body is a golden string<br>That your body is hanging from<br>His body is a golden string<br>My body has grown numb<br>O now you hear you master sing<br>Your shirt is all undone<br><br>And will you kneel beside this bed<br>That we polished so long ago<br>Before you master chose instead<br>To make my bed of snow<br>Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red<br>And you are speaking far too low<br>No, I can't make out what your master said<br>Before he made you go<br><br>And I think you're playing far too rough<br>For a lady who's been to the moon<br>I've lain by this window long enough<br>You get used to an empty room<br>And your love is some dust<br>In an old man's cuff<br>Who is tapping his foot to a rune<br>And your highs are a ruin<br>You want too much<br>Let's say you came back sometime too soon<br><br>I loved your master perfectly<br>And I taught him all that he knew<br>He was starving in some deep mystery<br>Like a man who is sure what is true<br>And I sent you to him with my guarantee<br>I could teach him something new<br>And I taught him how you would long for me<br>No matter what he said, no matter what you do<br><br>I believe that you heard you master sing<br>While I was sick in bed<br>I'm sure that he told you everything<br>I must keep locked away in my head<br>Your master took you traveling<br>Well, at least that's what you said<br>And now do you come back to bring<br>Your prisoner wine and bread.