Humbled In Love Lyrics by Leonard Cohen

Humbled In Love Lyrics

    Do you remember all of those pledges
    That we pledged in the passionate night
    Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges
    Like moths on a still yellow light
    No penance serves to renew them
    No massive transfusions of trust
    Why not even revenge can undo them
    So twisted these vows and so crushed.

    And you say you've been humbled in love
    Cut down in your love
    Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
    Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one
    Who kneels there as deeply as thee.

    Children have takes these pledges
    They have ferried them out of the past
    Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges
    Where love must go hiding at last
    And here where there is no description
    Oh here in the moment at hand
    No sinner need rise up forgiven
    No victim need limp to the stand.

    And you say you've been humbled in love...

    And look dear heart, look at the virgin
    Look how she welcomes him into her gown
    Yes, and mark how the stranger's cold armour
    Dissolves like a star falling down
    Why trade this vision for desire
    When you may have them both
    You will never see a man this naked
    I will never hold a woman this close.

    And you say you've been humbled in loveā€¦

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