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 Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Leonard Cohen
 
 
 
 19319>You came to me this morning
 
 And you handled me like meat
 
 You'd have to be a man to know
 
 How good that feels, how sweet
 
 
 
 My mirror twin, my next of kin
 
 I'd know you in my sleep
 
 And who but you would take me in
 
 A thousand kisses deep
 
 
 
 I loved you when you opened
 
 Like a lily to the heat
 
 You see I'm just another snowman
 
 Standing in the rain and sleet
 
 
 
 Who loved you with his frozen love
 
 His secondhand physique
 
 With all he is and all he was
 
 A thousand kisses deep
 
 
 
 I know you had to lie to me
 
 I know you had to cheat
 
 To pose all hot and high
 
 Behind the veils of sheer deceit
 
 
 
 Our perfect porn aristocrat
 
 So elegant and cheap
 
 I'm old but I'm still into that
 
 A thousand kisses deep
 
 
 
 I'm good at love, I'm good at hate
 
 It's in between I freeze
 
 Been working out but it's too late
 
 (It's been too late for years)
 
 
 
 But you look good, you really do
 
 They love you on the street
 
 If you were here I'd kneel for you
 
 A thousand kisses deep
 
 
 
 The autumn moved across your skin
 
 Got something in my eye
 
 A light that doesn't need to live
 
 And doesn't need to die
 
 
 
 A riddle in the book of love
 
 Obscure and obsolete
 
 And witnessed here in time and blood
 
 A thousand kisses deep
 
 
 
 But I'm still working with the wine
 
 Still dancing cheek to cheek
 
 The band is playing Auld Lang Syne
 
 But the heart will not retreat
 
 
 
 I ran with Diz, I sang with Ray
 
 I never had their sweet
 
 But once or twice they let me play
 
 A thousand kisses deep
 
 
 
 I loved you when you opened
 
 Like a lily to the heat
 
 You see I'm just another snowman
 
 Standing in the rain and sleet
 
 
 
 Who loved you with his frozen love
 
 His secondhand physique
 
 With all he is and all he was
 
 A thousand kisses deep
 
 
 
 But you don't need to hear me now
 
 And every word I speak
 
 It counts against me anyhow
 
 A thousand kisses deep
 
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