Watch Take Care

[tabulated by qwerty@cmu.edu]

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Sometimes I want to be with you
Sometimes I feel a home
Sometimes I feel a part of you
Sometimes I want to be alone

Fast forward, present fears
Backward steps, no tears
Old stock, past tense
New years, future sense

Watch take care

Sometimes I want to be with you
Sometimes I need to go
Sometimes I believe in you
Sometimes I know

Escape card, marked will
Ark age, grow still
Club sparks, spare parts
False starts, switched hearts

Sometimes I dream of you
Sometimes we drown
Sometimes we are gliding
Sometimes we go straight down

Appetite burn bright
Sustain a second night
Appetite burn bright
Sustain a second night

Sometimes I want to touch you
Sometimes I'd rather stare
Sometimes I want to take you
Sometimes I care for you

Escape card, marked will
Backward steps, no tears
Club sparks, spare parts
False starts, switched hearts
Fast forward, present fears
Backward steps, no tears
Old stock, past tense
New years, future tense

Watch take good care of you

A.B.C. Dicks Love

Time on my wrist
Faces to twist
Without any reason
The seasons exist

Head in the clouds, no one's speaking
Something in the water the sheep keep eating
Lips smacking, wolves attacking
Something in the diet must be lacking
Misses many, jumbos stacking
Soft underbelly, the youth are all ticking
A balance, a credit, value vandals
Four star offers, paper scandals

Time on my wrist
Faces to twist
Without any reason
The seasons exist
Without roots
Movement persists
Who who are you?
Where where are you?

Duracell rabbits, choppers scanning
ABC dicks love violation
Smoking symbols, a shotgun license
Shed loads of crumbs, fat full of cats
Batman's flag, Bizzaro's my metro
Square transport, wheel on ground
A shot V8, a mashed up grill
A thunderbird barrels, buy shares in hell

Line up, get up, my ceiling's low
Will you? Won't you? Return to go
Sharp-shooting beauties, they know the score
Haven't been caught, they broke the law
Head in the clouds, no one's speaking
Something in the water the sheep keep drinking
Lips smacking, wolves attacking
Something in the diet must be lacking

Could You?

Was there something on your mind?
Had your world fallen apart?
Had you a glint in your eye?
Had you murder in your heart?
Put your finger on a problem
Did your temper boil?
Did you melt down?
Did your blood run cold?

Did you do it for love?
Did you do it for free?
Did you do it because no one notices?

You had a tool in your hand
Dragged the other through your hair
Washed the print from your fingers
Dried the stains on your clothes
Washed the sound from your ears
Blew the smell from your nose
Wiped the smirks from their faces
You were straightening smiles

Buried in a forest
Hid beneath a hedge
I saw you at the window
I saw you fall from the ledge
You said you did it for love
You did it for free
You did it because no one notices me

Tongue Ties

Better being construction
Tongue ties communion
All bodies speed on
Gravity pulls come on
Arresting the nerves
Bailing entwined

Takes you away
Brings you straight back
Takes you away
Brings you straight back
Arresting the nerves
Bailing entwined
Arresting the nerves
Bailing entwined
The country boy's heart
Follows staggering behind

Better being construction
Tongue tied instruction
White static blue vision
Rep-e-rep-e-tition
Arresting the nerves
Bailing entwined

Not a Soul

Not a soul saw him lying there
Lying here lying there lying everywhere
Tree uprooting
Every hair burns
And every bank looted
Every shot dear
She cries: Who shot my baby?

Everything was being shot to bits
Even self-protection slips away
Slips away

Not a soul saw him lying there
Pearls galore and gems
Before a slim time
Free uprooting every strand frays
Every particle every bruise on display
She cries: Who took my baby?

Everybody was being shot to bits
Even self-protection slips away
Slips away

Get Out Of That Rain

Get out of that rain

Hole In The Sky

There's one or two things I like about you
I like the way you take, I like the way you care

There's one or two things I like about you
I like the way you act, I like what I hear

There's one or two things I like about you
I like the way you take, I like the way you play

There's one or two things I like about you
I like the way you look, I like the way you feel

There's one or two things I like about you
There's a hole in the sky

He Said: She Said

In this place I first saw you
In this place I first met you
In this place I first held you
In this place I fell for you
I fell for you

He said, we were together
She (he) said, be so love?
He (she) said, the first time I saw you
She said, I fell like a stone
Fell like a stone

She said, you're so vague
She said, you cherish way?
He said, what is your age?
She said, this one will do
This one will do

In this place I first saw you
In this place I first met you
In this place I'm hiding my fears
My feelings for you
My feelings for you

Suzanne [Leonard Cohen]

[tabulated by jw@mckinsey.com]
[jw@mckinsey.com tabulated the original version by Leonard Cohen; qwerty@cmu.edu added a C-Dm change.]

[C] Suzanne takes you down
To her place near the river
You can [Dm] hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you [C] know that she's half-crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she [Em] feeds you tea and oranges
That come [F] all the way from China
And [C] just when you mean to tell her
That you [Dm] have no love to give her
Then she [C] gets you on her wavelength
And she [Dm] lets the river answer
That you've [C] always been her lover
And you [Em] want to travel with her
And you [F] want to travel blind
And you [C] know that she will trust you
For you've [Dm] touched her perfect body with your [C] mind

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said, "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind

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• CD, 1989

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