The Captain-Leonard Cohen

[00:07.140]Now the Captain called me to his bed [00:11.080]He fumbled for my hand [00:14.980]"Take these silver bars" he said [00:18.610]"I'm giving you command" [00:22.170]"Command of what, there's no one here [00:26.160]There's only you and me [00:29.720]All the rest are dead or in retreat [00:33.850]Or with the enemy" [00:37.470]"Complain, complain, that's all you've done [00:41.660]Ever since we lost [00:44.910]If it's not the Crucifixion [00:48.820]Then it's the Holocaust" [00:52.830]"May Christ have mercy on your soul [00:56.520]For making such a joke [01:00.270]Amid these hearts that burn like coal [01:04.370]And the flesh that rose like smoke" [01:08.000]"I know that you have suffered, lad [01:11.910]But suffer this awhile [01:15.600]Whatever makes a soldier sad [01:19.660]Will make a killer smile" [01:23.160]"I'm leaving, Captain, I must go [01:26.970]There's blood upon your hand [01:30.800]But tell me, Captain, if you know [01:34.590]Of a decent place to stand" [01:38.380]"There is no decent place to stand [01:42.550]In a massacre [01:45.970]But if a woman take your hand [01:50.160]Go and stand with her" [01:53.700]"I left a wife in Tennessee [01:57.640]And a baby in Saigon [02:01.650]I risked my life, but not to hear [02:05.000]Some country western song" [02:08.800]"Ah, but if you cannot raise your love [02:12.830]To a very high degree [02:16.310]Then you're just the man I've been thinking of [02:20.560]So come and stand with me" [02:24.120]"Your standing days are done", I cried [02:28.120]"You'll rally me no more [02:31.810]I don't even know what side [02:35.560]We fought on, or what for" [02:39.370]"I'm on the side that's always lost [02:43.310]Against the side of Heaven [02:46.880]I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed [02:51.280]Against the side of Seven" [02:54.450]"And I've read the Bill of Human Rights [02:58.480]And some of it was true [03:02.090]But there wasn't any burden left [03:05.950]So I'm laying it on you" [03:09.950]Now the Captain he was dying [03:13.700]But the Captain wasn't hurt [03:17.510]The silver bars were in my hand [03:21.620]Pinned them to my shirt