Lirik dan Chord Lagu Death of a Ladies' Man - Leonard Cohen

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Leonard Cohen, merilis lagu berjudul “Death of a Ladies' Man”.

Lagu bergenre pop tersebut dirilis pada 1988 melalui label rekaman Columbia Records.

“Death of a Ladies' Man” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk I’m Your Man.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Death of a Ladies' Man” dari Leonard Cohen:

Capo di fret ke-3

Intro:

D E7 Em A7 G D (2x)

Verse 1:
           D                                                 E7
Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
      Em              A7                     G                              D
"I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said.
         D                                                           E7
His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete.
       Em                 A7                          G                                     D
"Oh baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet.

Verse 2:
        D                                            E7
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come
        Em                    A7                     G                       D
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
      D                                            E7
And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust
     Em               A7                        G                            D
She took unto herself most everything her lover lost

Bridge 1:
Bm
........Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view
                  Em
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to
            F#m
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood
                          Em                   Em/D#                   Em/D            A7
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude."

Interlude: D

Verse 3:
      D                                         E7
He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room
      Em                  A7                         G                 D
He promised her protection for the issue of her womb
        D                                             E7
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
      Em                              A7             G                  D
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon

Piano solo backing:
D E7 Em A7 G D (2x)
D (for 2 bars)

Verse 4:
        D                                   E7
She took his much admired oriental frame of mind
                Em                        A7          G                  D
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind
         D                                                 E7
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine
           Em                      A7                  G                   D
"This mental space is occupied and everything is mine."

Interlude: D (for 2 bars)

Verse 5:
      D                                              E7
He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track
                          Em                     A7                G                   D
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back."
       D                                             E7
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance,
        Em                          A7                           G                      D
She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache.

Bridge 2:
Bm
........Now the last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get
       Em
A woman's education but he's not a woman yet
                 F#m
And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy
        Em                          Em/D#              Em/D               A7
Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy.

Last verse:
                       D                          E7
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
                Em                     A7                  G                  D
It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed?
         D                                               E7
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
     Em                     A7                     G                              D
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.