Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Album: Live Songs

One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong Lyrics

I lit a thin green candle

to make you jealous of me

but the room just filled with mosquitos

they heard that my body was free

then I took the dust from a long sleepless night

and I put it in your little shoe

then I confess that I tortured the dress

that you wore for the world to see through.

I showed my heart to the doctor

He said I'd just have to quit

Then he wrote himself a perscription

and your name was mentioned in it

then he locked himself in a library shelf

with the details of our honeymoon

and I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse

and his practice is all in a ruin.

I heard of a saint who had loved you

so I studied all night in his school

He taught us the duty of lovers

was to tarnish the golden rule

And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure

he drowned himself in a pool

His body is gone but back here on the lawn

his spirit continues to drool.

An eskimo showed me a movie

he'd recently taken of you

the poor man could hardly stop shivering

his lips and his fingers were blue

I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes

and I guess he just never got warm

But you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice

O please let me come into the storm.