Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Album: Live Songs

Heart With No Companion Lyrics

I greet you from the other side 

 Of sorrow and despair 

 With a love so vast and shattered 

 It will reach you everywhere 

 And I sing this for the captain 

 Whose ship has not been built 

 For the mother in confusion 

 Her cradle still unfilled 

 

 For the heart with no companion 

 For the soul without a king 

 For the prima ballerina 

 Who cannot dance to anything 

 

 Through the days of shame that are coming 

 Through the nights of wild distress 

 Tho' your promise count for nothing 

 You must keep it nonetheless 

 

 You must keep it for the captain 

 Whose ship has not been built 

 For the mother in confusion 

 Her cradle still unfilled 

 

 For the heart with no companion ... 

 

 I greet you from the other side ...