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Artist/Band: Leonard Cohen
Lyrics for Song: The Third Invention
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Leonard Cohen



(Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic")



(Angels) Blindly he worked

At his third invention

Taking the chances

Of one who is lost



Feeling his way

To a cleaner expression

Of whatever it was

He stumbled across



All for the sake

Of a possible woman

He goaded himself

With a technical hope



For the sake of his longing

We came to the window

He put on his cloths

And he walked through the smoke



All for the sake

Of an interested woman

Riding to him

On a flicker of hope



Some tourist of beauty

In full disappointment

Ready to fall

In love with a ghost



And here was his ghost

With his third invention

The usual claim

To the highest reward



And now it was ready

His third invention

Ready to fall

In love with the world



And he falls back

And she comes forward

The eye of his labour

Measures them both



And she lies in the arms

Of his third invention

And back in his room

He commences the fourth



This is the work

Of the highest pretension

An automatic

Ode to the world



O deep in comfort

O full employment

He's lost to the fourth

He's lost to the third.


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Leonard Cohen


Leonard Cohen
"Other Songs - Leonard Cohen"


1. A Thousand Kisses Deep
2. Ain't No Cure For Love
3. Alexandra Leaving
4. Because Of
5. Boogie Street
6. By The Rivers Dark
7. Chelsea Hotel No.2
8. Famous Blue Raincoat
9. First We Take Manhattan
10. Go No More A-Roving
11. Hallelujah (Original)
12. Here It Is
13. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
14. In My Secret Life
15. Love Itself
16. Lover Lover Lover
17. So Long, Marrianne
18. Stories Of The Street
19. That Don't Make It Junk
20. The Guests
21. The Land Of Plenty
22. The Partisan
23. Waiting For A Miracle
24. Who By Fire
25. Woke Up This Morning
26. Angels Eyes
27. Blessed Is The Memory
28. Clap! Clap!
29. Do I Have To Dance All Night
30. God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
31. Going Home
32. I've Counted What I Have
33. Misty Blue (Outtake From Recent Songs)
34. Not Known
35. Priests
36. Recitation
37. Since You've Asked
38. Song Of Bernadette
39. Song Of Destruction
40. Song To My Assassin
41. Store Room
42. The Bells
43. The Jungle Line
44. The Marriage March
45. The Promise
46. The Third Invention
47. The Walls
48. Throne Of Desire Variations
49. To Love Somebody
50. Way Down Deep
51. We Told You So
52. Whither Thou Goest (From The Book Of Ruth)
53. Wishing Window