The Traitor-Leonard Cohen

[00:00.000] 作词 : Leonard Cohen [00:01.000] 作曲 : Leonard Cohen [00:22.430]Now the swan it floated [00:24.940]On the english river [00:31.790]Ah the rose of high romance [00:36.760]It opened wide [00:41.890]A sun tanned woman yearned me [00:46.200]Through the summer [00:50.930]And the judges watched us [00:53.940]From the other side [01:00.880]I told my mother mother [01:05.190]I must leave you [01:10.300]Preserve my room [01:12.540]But do not shed a tear [01:19.600]Should rumour of a shabby [01:23.810]Ending reach you [01:28.480]It was half my fault [01:31.290]And half the atmosphere [01:38.010]But the rose I sickened [01:41.030]With a scarlet fever [01:47.390]And the swan I tempted [01:50.240]With a sense of shame [01:56.810]She said at last [01:59.280]I was her finest lover [02:06.130]And if she withered [02:08.590]I would be to blame [02:16.060]The judges said you missed it [02:20.770]By a fraction [02:25.390]Rise up and brace [02:27.690]Your troops for the attack [02:34.100]Ah the dreamers ride [02:36.820]Against the men of action [02:43.690]Oh see the men of action [02:47.830]Falling back [02:52.500]But I lingered on her thighs [02:56.300]A fatal moment [03:01.890]I kissed her lips [03:04.090]As though I thirsted still [03:10.850]My falsity had stung me [03:14.730]Like a hornet [03:19.710]The poison sank [03:21.620]And it paralysed my will [03:28.750]I could not move to warn [03:31.760]All the younger soldiers [03:37.600]That they had been [03:39.800]Deserted from above [03:46.020]So on battlefields [03:48.780]From here to barcelona [03:55.530]I'm listed with the enemies of love [04:06.870]And long ago she said [04:10.240]I must be leaving [04:16.100]Ah but keep my body here to lie upon [04:25.160]You can move it up [04:27.390]And down and when I'm sleeping [04:34.180]Run some wire through [04:36.760]That rose and wind the swan [04:43.720]So daily I renew my idle duty [04:52.730]I touch her here and there [04:56.820]I know my place [05:01.720]I kiss her open mouth [05:04.750]And I praise her beauty [05:10.680]And people call me traitor to my face