LEONARD COHEN - Take This Waltz lyrics

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Now in vienna there's ten pretty women<br>There's a shoulder where death comes to cry<br>There's a lobby with nine hundred windows<br>There's a tree where the doves go to die<br>There's a piece that was torn from the morning<br>And it hangs in the gallery of frost<br>Ay, ay, ay, ay<br>Take this waltz, take this waltz<br>Take this waltz with the clamp on it's jaws<br><br>Oh I want you, I want you, I want you<br>On a chair with a dead magazine<br>In the cave at the tip of the lily<br>In some hallways where love's never been<br>On a bed where the moon has been sweating<br>In a cry filled with footsteps and sand<br>Ay, ay, ay, ay<br>Take this waltz, take this waltz<br>Take it's broken waist in your hand<br><br>This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz<br>With it's very own breath of brandy and death<br>Dragging it's tail in the sea<br><br>There's a concert hall in vienna<br>Where your mouth had a thousand reviews<br>There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking<br>They've been sentenced to death by the blues<br>Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture<br>With a garland of freshly cut tears? <br>Ay, ay, ay, ay<br>Take this waltz, take this waltz<br>Take this waltz it's been dying for years<br><br>There's an attic where children are playing<br>Where I've got to lie down with you soon<br>In a dream of hungarian lanterns<br>In the mist of some sweet afternoon<br>And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow<br>All your sheep and your lilies of snow<br>Ay, ay, ay, ay<br>Take this waltz, take this waltz<br>With it's I'll never forget you, you know!<br><br>This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz ...<br><br>And I'll dance with you in vienna<br>I'll be wearing a river's disguise<br>The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,<br>My mouth on the dew of your thighs<br>And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,<br>With the photographs there, and the moss<br>And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty<br>My cheap violin and my cross<br>And you'll carry me down on your dancing<br>To the pools that you lift on your wrist<br>Oh my love, oh my love<br>Take this waltz, take this waltz<br>It's yours now. it's all that there is.