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Leonard Cohen Lyrics for Song: The Guests
 Lyrics for Album: Complete Studio Albums Collection [2011]
 
 
 
 19457>One by one the guests arrive
 
 The guests are coming through
 
 The open-hearted many
 
 The broken-hearted few
 
 
 
 And no one knows where the night is going
 
 And no one knows why the wine is flowing
 
 Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you
 
 Oh, I need you now
 
 
 
 And those who dance, begin to dance
 
 Those who weap begin
 
 And "Welcome, welcome" cries a voice
 
 "Let all my guests come in"
 
 
 
 And no one knows where the night is going
 
 And no one knows why the wine is flowing
 
 Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you
 
 Oh, I need you now
 
 
 
 And all go stumbling through that house
 
 in lonely secrecy
 
 Saying "Do reveal yourself"
 
 or "Why has thou forsaken me?"
 
 
 
 And no one knows where the night is going
 
 And no one knows why the wine is flowing
 
 Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you
 
 Oh, I need you now
 
 
 
 All at once the torches flare
 
 The inner door flies open
 
 One by one they enter there
 
 In every style of passion
 
 
 
 And no one knows where the night is going
 
 And no one knows why the wine is flowing
 
 Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you
 
 Oh, I need you now
 
 
 
 And here they take their sweet repast
 
 While house and grounds resolve
 
 And one by one the guests are cast
 
 Beyond the garden wall
 
 
 
 And no one knows where the night is going
 
 And no one knows why the wine is flowing
 
 Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you
 
 Oh, I need you now
 
 
 
 For those who dance, begin to dance
 
 Those who weap begin
 
 Those who earnestly are lost
 
 Are lost and lost again
 
 
 
 And no one knows where the night is going
 
 And no one knows why the wine is flowing
 
 Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you
 
 Oh, I need you now
 
 
 
 One by one the guests arrive
 
 The guests are coming through
 
 The broken-hearted many
 
 The open-hearted few
 
 
 
 And no one knows where the night is going
 
 And no one knows why the wine is flowing
 
 Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you
 
 Oh, I need you now
 
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