Famous Blue Raincoat

Song Famous Blue Raincoat
Artist The Handsome Family
Album Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Lyrics

[00:24.23] It’s four in the morning, the end of December
[00:30.40] I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
[00:36.49] New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
[00:42.43] There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
[00:49.16] I hear that you're building
[00:52.75] your little house deep in the desert
[01:01.24] You're living for nothing now
[01:05.76] I hope you’re keeping some kind of record
[01:10.71] Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
[01:20.94] She said that you gave it to her
[01:27.28] That night that you planned to go clear
[01:37.87] Did you ever go clear?
[01:45.17] Ah, the last time we saw you
[01:48.28] you looked so much older
[01:51.28] Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
[01:57.22] You'd been to the station to meet every train
[02:02.93] And you came home without Lili Marlene
[02:10.22] And you treated my woman
[02:14.48] to a flake of your life
[02:21.73] And when she came back
[02:26.42] she was nobody’s wife
[02:31.54] Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
[02:43.04] One more thin gypsy thief
[02:48.37] Well I see Jane's awake --
[02:58.00] She sends her regards.
[03:05.59] And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
[03:12.01] What can I possibly say?
[03:17.77] I guess that I miss you,
[03:20.57] I guess I forgive you
[03:23.83] I'm glad you stood in my way.
[03:30.97] If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
[03:42.71] Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.
[03:52.09] Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
[04:03.36] I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
[04:16.24] And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
[04:26.49] She said that you gave it to her
[04:32.43] That night that you planned to go clear
[04:42.78] ——Sincerely, L .Cohen

Pinyin

[00:24.23] It' s four in the morning, the end of December
[00:30.40] I' m writing you now just to see if you' re better
[00:36.49] New York is cold, but I like where I' m living
[00:42.43] There' s music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
[00:49.16] I hear that you' re building
[00:52.75] your little house deep in the desert
[01:01.24] You' re living for nothing now
[01:05.76] I hope you' re keeping some kind of record
[01:10.71] Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
[01:20.94] She said that you gave it to her
[01:27.28] That night that you planned to go clear
[01:37.87] Did you ever go clear?
[01:45.17] Ah, the last time we saw you
[01:48.28] you looked so much older
[01:51.28] Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
[01:57.22] You' d been to the station to meet every train
[02:02.93] And you came home without Lili Marlene
[02:10.22] And you treated my woman
[02:14.48] to a flake of your life
[02:21.73] And when she came back
[02:26.42] she was nobody' s wife
[02:31.54] Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
[02:43.04] One more thin gypsy thief
[02:48.37] Well I see Jane' s awake
[02:58.00] She sends her regards.
[03:05.59] And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
[03:12.01] What can I possibly say?
[03:17.77] I guess that I miss you,
[03:20.57] I guess I forgive you
[03:23.83] I' m glad you stood in my way.
[03:30.97] If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
[03:42.71] Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.
[03:52.09] Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
[04:03.36] I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
[04:16.24] And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
[04:26.49] She said that you gave it to her
[04:32.43] That night that you planned to go clear
[04:42.78] Sincerely, L . Cohen