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Leonard Cohen Lyrics for Song: First We Take Manhattan
 Lyrics for Album: Complete Studio Albums Collection [2011]
 
 
 
 26409>They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
 
 For trying to change the system from within
 
 I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
 
 First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
 
 
 
 I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
 
 I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
 
 I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
 
 First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
 
 
 
 (I'd really like to live beside you, baby
 
 I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
 
 But you see that line there moving through the station?
 
 I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those)
 
 
 
 Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
 
 You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
 
 How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
 
 First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
 
 
 
 I don't like your fashion business mister
 
 And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
 
 I don't like what happened to my sister
 
 First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
 
 
 
 (I'd really like to live beside you, baby ... )
 
 
 
 And I thank you for those items that you sent me
 
 The monkey and the plywood violin
 
 I practiced every night, now I'm ready
 
 First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
 
 
 
 I am guided
 
 
 
 Ah remember me, I used to live for music
 
 Remember me, I brought your groceries in
 
 Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded
 
 First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
 
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