LEONARD COHEN - Teachers lyrics

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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<br>And then came noon<br>Dinner time the 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, the nurses gone<br>Have I carved enough, my lord<br>Child, you are bone.<br><br>I ate and ate and ate,<br>No, I did not miss a plate<br>Well, how much do these suppers cost<br>We'll take it out in hate.<br><br>I spent my hatred every place<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,<br>Then 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>Well, teachers are my lessons done<br>I cannot do another one<br>They laughed and laughed and said<br>Well, child are your lessons done.<br><br>Are your lessons done<br>Are your lessons done.