Lady Midnight    (intro)

 

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1.       I came by myself to a very crowded place,

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    I was looking for someone who had lines in her face.

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    I found her there        but she was past all concern,

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    I asked her to hold me,        said, "Lady, unfold me!"

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    But she scorned me and she told me

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    I was dead         and I could never return.

 

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2. Well, I argued all night like so many have before,

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    saying,      "Whatever you give me, I seem to need so much more."

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    Then she pointed at me         where I kneeled on her floor,

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    she said, "Don't try to use me          or slyly refuse me,

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    just win me or lose me, it is this that the darkness is for."

 

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3. I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old,

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    the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold."

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    "If we cry now," she said,      "it will just be ignored."

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    So I walked through the morning,         sweet early morning,

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    I could hear my lady calling,

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    "You've won me, you've won me, my lord." (rep. and fade)

 

    (Leonard Cohen)