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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.

Leonard Cohen

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait

And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.

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