Stories of the Street lyrics

The stories of the street are mine,

The Spanish voices laugh.

The Cadillacs go creeping now

Through the night and the poison gas,

And I lean from my window sill

In this old hotel I chose,

Yes one hand on my suicide,

One hand on the rose.

I know you've heard it's over

Now and war must surely come,

The cities they are broke in half

And the middle men are gone.

But let me ask you one more time,

O children of the dusk,

All these hunters who are shrieking now

Oh do they speak for us?

And where do all these highways go,

Now that we are free?

Why are the armies marching still

That were coming home to me?

O lady with your legs so fine

O stranger at your wheel,

You are locked into your suffering

And your pleasures are the seal.

The age of lust is giving birth,

And both the parents ask

The nurse to tell them fairy tales

On both sides of the glass.

And now the infant with his cord

Is hauled in like a kite,

And one eye filled with blueprints,

One eye filled with night.

O come with me my little one,

We will find that farm

And grow us grass and apples there

And keep all the animals warm.

And if by chance I wake at night

And I ask you who I am,

O take me to the slaughterhouse,

I will wait there with the lamb.

With one hand on the hexagram

And one hand on the girl

I balance on a wishing well

That all men call the world.

We are so small between the stars,

So large against the sky,

And lost among the subway crowds

I try to catch your eye.

• Artist:Leonard Cohen
• Album:Songs of Leonard Cohen