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Leonard Cohen Take This Longing Lyrics
Total views: 1 time this week / Rating: 8.40/10 [5 votes]Album: New Skin for the Old Ceremony / Original Release Date: 1974-08Genre: PopSong Duration: 4 min 06 sec
LEONARD COHEN
- Take This Longing Lyrics / with translationsTake this longing
Many men have loved the belt
You fasten to the rein
And everyone who wanted you
They found what they will always want to gain
Your beauty lost to you yourself
Just as it was lost to them
Ah take this longing from my tongue
Whatever useless things these hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Your body like a search light
My poverty revealed
I would like to try your charity until you cry
Now you must try my greed
And everything depends upon
How near you sleep to me
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the lonely things my hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Hungry as an arch way
Through which the troops have passed
I stand in ruins behind you
With your winter clothe, your broken sandal strap
I love to see you naked over there
And specially from the back
Ah take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
Untie for me your I do gown
Like you would do for one which you love
You're faithful to the better man
I'm afraid that he left
So let me judge your love affair
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves that he's shaking from his head
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Like you would do for one you love
Many men have loved the belt
You fasten to the rein
And everyone who wanted you
They found what they will always want to gain
Your beauty lost to you yourself
Just as it was lost to them
Ah take this longing from my tongue
Whatever useless things these hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Your body like a search light
My poverty revealed
I would like to try your charity until you cry
Now you must try my greed
And everything depends upon
How near you sleep to me
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the lonely things my hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Hungry as an arch way
Through which the troops have passed
With your winter clothe, your broken sandal strap
I love to see you naked over there
And specially from the back
Ah take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
Untie for me your I do gown
Like you would do for one which you love
You're faithful to the better man
I'm afraid that he left
So let me judge your love affair
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves that he's shaking from his head
Just take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things my hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you love
Like you would do for one you love
Facts about Take This Longing
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Take This Longing is written and performed by Leonard Cohen.
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It is first released on August 01, 1974 as part of Leonard Cohen's album "New Skin for the Old Ceremony" which includes 11 tracks in total. This song is the 9th track on this album.
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When we dive into the story the lyrics are telling, Leonard Cohen's 'Take This Longing' is a composition that explores unreturned affection and longing and tells the story of a narrator who is deeply vulnerable and desperate through metaphors like 'beauty broken down' and 'poverty revealed'. The lyrics of Take this longing mainly depict love, heartbreak, angst, reflection, and solitude. Moreover, longing and desire, beauty and perception, love and admiration, jealousy and competition, and vulnerability and poverty are among the themes that the song highlights. The lyrics imply themes of longing, desire, and sensuality, as well as images that evoke intimacy and vulnerability. These elements are more fitting for adult audiences only, thus making it suitable for an R rating.
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Take This Longing falls under the genre Pop.
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Take This Longing song length is 4 minutes and 06 seconds.
Who wrote Take This Longing lyrics?
Take This Longing is written and performed by Leonard Cohen.
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When was Take This Longing released?
It is first released on August 01, 1974 as part of Leonard Cohen's album "New Skin for the Old Ceremony" which includes 11 tracks in total. This song is the 9th track on this album.
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What is the meaning behind Take This Longing lyrics?
When we dive into the story the lyrics are telling, Leonard Cohen's 'Take This Longing' is a composition that explores unreturned affection and longing and tells the story of a narrator who is deeply vulnerable and desperate through metaphors like 'beauty broken down' and 'poverty revealed'. The lyrics of Take this longing mainly depict love, heartbreak, angst, reflection, and solitude. Moreover, longing and desire, beauty and perception, love and admiration, jealousy and competition, and vulnerability and poverty are among the themes that the song highlights. The lyrics imply themes of longing, desire, and sensuality, as well as images that evoke intimacy and vulnerability. These elements are more fitting for adult audiences only, thus making it suitable for an R rating.
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Which genre is Take This Longing?
Take This Longing falls under the genre Pop.
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How long is the song Take This Longing?
Take This Longing song length is 4 minutes and 06 seconds.
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Record Label(s): 1974 Sony Music Entertainment
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