The Traitor

	作曲 : Leonard Cohen
	作词 : Leonard Cohen
	The Traitor
	Leonard Cohen
	Now the Swan it floated on the English river
	Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened wide
	A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer
	and the judges watched us from the other side
	I told my mother "Mother, I must leave you
	preserve my room but do not shed a tear
	Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
	it was half my fault and half the atmosphere"
	But the Rose I sickened with a scarlet fever
	and the Swan I tempted with a sense of shame
	She said at last I was her finest lover
	and if she withered I would be to blame
	The judges said you missed it by a fraction
	rise up and brace your troops for the attack
	Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action
	Oh see the men of action falling back
	But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment
	I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
	My falsity had stung me like a hornet
	The poison sank and it paralysed my will
	I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers
	that they had been deserted from above
	So on battlefields from here to Barcelona
	I'm listed with the enemies of love
	And long ago she said "I must be leaving,
	Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
	You can move it up and down and when I'm sleeping
	Run some wire through that Rose and wind the Swan"
	So daily I renew my idle duty
	I touch her here and there - I know my place
	I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty
	and people call me traitor to my face

	zuò qǔ : Leonard Cohen
	zuò cí : Leonard Cohen
	The Traitor
	Leonard Cohen
	Now the Swan it floated on the English river
	Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened wide
	A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer
	and the judges watched us from the other side
	I told my mother " Mother, I must leave you
	preserve my room but do not shed a tear
	Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
	it was half my fault and half the atmosphere"
	But the Rose I sickened with a scarlet fever
	and the Swan I tempted with a sense of shame
	She said at last I was her finest lover
	and if she withered I would be to blame
	The judges said you missed it by a fraction
	rise up and brace your troops for the attack
	Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action
	Oh see the men of action falling back
	But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment
	I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
	My falsity had stung me like a hornet
	The poison sank and it paralysed my will
	I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers
	that they had been deserted from above
	So on battlefields from here to Barcelona
	I' m listed with the enemies of love
	And long ago she said " I must be leaving,
	Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
	You can move it up and down and when I' m sleeping
	Run some wire through that Rose and wind the Swan"
	So daily I renew my idle duty
	I touch her here and there I know my place
	I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty
	and people call me traitor to my face