Recitation with N.L.-Leonard Cohen

[00:00.62]You came to me this morning and you handled me like meat [00:04.62] [00:06.79]You'd have to be a man to know how good that feels [00:09.66]How sweet [00:10.53] [00:12.36]My mirrored twin [00:14.43]My next of kin [00:15.73] [00:16.64]I'd know you in my sleep and who but you would take me in [00:22.81]A thousand kisses deep [00:24.85] [00:26.12]I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat [00:29.76] [00:30.97]See I'm just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet [00:35.93] [00:37.03]Who loved you with his frozen love and his second hand physique [00:43.55]With he is and all he was [00:46.27]A thousand kisses deep [00:48.37] [00:49.43]I know you had to lie to me [00:51.66] [00:52.33]I know you had to cheat [00:54.04]To pose all hot and high behind the veils of shear deceit [01:00.92] [01:01.87]A perfect born aristocrat so elegant and cheap [01:07.65] [01:08.59]I'm old but I'm still into that [01:11.71]A thousand kisses deep [01:13.88] [01:16.19]I'm good at love [01:17.87]I'm good at hate [01:19.07] [01:20.08]It's in between I freeze [01:21.89] [01:22.99]Been working out [01:24.15]But it's too late [01:26.38] [01:27.24]It's been to late for years [01:29.21] [01:30.80]But you look good [01:32.40]You really do [01:33.48] [01:34.29]They love you on the street [01:36.43] [01:37.21]If I could move I'd kneel for you [01:39.69]A thousand kisses deep [01:41.67] [01:43.12]I'm still working with the wine [01:45.46]Still dancing cheek to cheek [01:48.16] [01:49.66]The band is playing auld laing sine [01:52.38]But the heart will not retreat [01:54.45] [01:55.76]I ran with dez and I sang with ray [01:59.22] [02:00.22]I never had their sweep [02:01.91] [02:02.88]But once or twice they let me play [02:05.71] [02:06.30]A thousand kisses deep [02:08.10] [02:09.60]The autumn moved across your skin [02:12.34] [02:13.36]Got something in my eye [02:15.11] [02:16.07]A light that doesn't need to live [02:18.80]And doesn't need to die [02:20.77] [02:21.57]A riddle in the book of love [02:23.86]Obscure and obsolete [02:26.64] [02:27.54]To witness tear and time and blood [02:31.06] [02:31.61]A thousand kisses deep [02:33.35] [02:34.58]I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat [02:38.82] [02:39.55]Just the angel another snowman standing in the raining sleet [02:45.11] [02:45.69]Who loved you with his frozen love [02:48.27] [02:48.88]His second hand physique with all he is [02:52.98]And all he was [02:54.81]A thousand kisses deep [02:56.78] [02:57.94]Well that's my story I meet it's broken and it's bleek [03:03.85] [03:05.15]But all the twinsty pecies is fact [03:07.84] [03:08.71]A thousand kisses deep