Waiting For The Miracle

Song Waiting For The Miracle
Artist Leonard Cohen
Album Greatest Hits

Lyrics

[00:12.100] baby, i've been waiting,
[00:15.870] i've been waiting night and day.
[00:19.130]
[00:23.900] i didn't see the time,
[00:27.620] i waited half my life away.
[00:31.410]
[00:35.130] there were lots of invitations
[00:39.300] and i know you sent me some,
[00:45.250]
[00:46.230] but i was waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
[00:56.800]
[01:04.319] i know you really loved me.
[01:08.590] but, you see, my hands were tied.
[01:12.600]
[01:15.810] i know it must have hurt you,
[01:20.230] it must have hurt your pride
[01:23.770]
[01:27.220] to have to stand beneath my window
[01:31.900] with your bugle and your drum,
[01:36.100]
[01:37.890] and me i'm up there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
[01:47.630]
[01:56.810] ah i don't believe you'd like it,
[02:01.490] you wouldn't like it here.
[02:03.810]
[02:08.560] there ain't no entertainment
[02:12.710] and the judgements are severe.
[02:16.100]
[02:20.340] the maestro says it's mozart
[02:24.780] but it sounds like bubble gum
[02:28.210]
[02:31.770] when you're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
[02:41.400]
[02:50.380] waiting for the miracle there's nothing left to do.
[03:02.800] i haven't been this happy since the end of world war ii.
[03:12.180] nothing left to do
[03:14.270] when you know that you've been taken.
[03:17.710] nothing left to do
[03:19.900] when you're begging for a crumb
[03:22.820]
[03:23.500] nothing left to do
[03:25.820] when you've got to go on waiting waiting for the miracle to come.
[03:35.560]
[03:42.440] i dreamed about you, baby.
[03:46.570] it was just the other night.
[03:49.590]
[03:54.180] most of you was naked
[03:57.630] ah but some of you was light.
[04:02.180]
[04:05.750] the sands of time were falling
[04:09.880] from your fingers and your thumb,
[04:13.210]
[04:16.820] and you were waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come
[04:26.830]
[04:34.990] ah baby, let's get married,
[04:39.260] we've been alone too long.
[04:42.850]
[04:46.460] let's be alone together.
[04:51.500] let's see if we're that strong.
[04:55.400]
[04:58.360] yeah let's do something crazy,
[05:02.180] something absolutely wrong
[05:05.640]
[05:09.700] while we're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
[05:20.190]
[05:26.590] nothing left to do
[05:28.910] when you know that you've been taken.
[05:31.810]
[05:32.320] nothing left to do
[05:34.570] when you're begging for a crumb
[05:37.420]
[05:38.200] nothing left to do
[05:40.420] when you've got to go on waiting waiting for the miracle to come.
[05:50.200]
[05:57.100] when you've fallen on the highway
[06:01.120] and you're lying in the rain,
[06:04.470]
[06:08.400] and they ask you how you're doing
[06:12.330] of course you'll say you can't complain --
[06:20.220] if you're squeezed for information,
[06:23.800] that's when you've got to play it dumb:
[06:27.620]
[06:30.150] you just say you're out there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come