Lirik dan Chord Lagu Take This Longing - Leonard Cohen

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

“Take This Longing” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk I’m Your Man.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Take This Longing” dari Leonard Cohen:

[Intro]
C

[Verse 1]
Bb                                      F
Many men have loved the bells
Bb                                F
You fastened to the rein
Dm                     Gm
And everyone who wanted you
Dm                              C      Dm                C
They found what they will always want again
Em                                        Am
Your beauty lost to you yourself
   Em                             Am
Just as it was lost to them

[Chorus]
      F                                      C
Oh take this longing from my tongue
       F                                                            C
Whatever useless things these hands have done
F                                                 C
Let me see your beauty broken down
Em                     F                        C
Like you would do for one you love

[Verse 2]
Bb                                  F
Your body like a searchlight
Bb                           F
My poverty revealed
Dm                                   Gm
I would like to try your charity
Dm                    C        Dm                       C
Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
Em                                  Am
And everything depends upon
      Em                      Am
How near you sleep to me

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Bb                        F
Hungry as an archway
Bb                                                    F
Through which the troops have passed
Dm                                 Gm
I stand in ruins behind you
Dm                     C              Dm                               C
With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps
Em                                         Am
I love to see you naked over there
Em                                    Am
Especially from the back

[Chorus]

[Verse 4]
Bb                                     F
You're faithful to the better man
Bb                                F
I'm afraid that he left
Dm                                     Gm
So let me judge your love affair
Dm              C                            Dm                          C
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
Em                                        Am
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
Em                                           Am
That he's shaken from his head

[Chorus]