| Song | Take This Longing |
| Artist | Leonard Cohen |
| Album | New Skin for the Old Ceremony |
| 作曲 : Leonard Cohen | |
| 作词 : Leonard Cohen | |
| Take This Longing | |
| Leonard Cohen | |
| Many men have loved the bells | |
| you fastened to the rein, | |
| and everyone who wanted you | |
| they found what they will always want again. | |
| Your beauty lost to you yourself | |
| just as it was lost to them. | |
| Oh take this longing from my tongue, | |
| whatever useless things these hands have done. | |
| Let me see your beauty broken down | |
| like you would do for one you love. | |
| Your body like a searchlight | |
| my poverty revealed, | |
| I would like to try your charity | |
| until you cry, "Now you must try my greed." | |
| And everything depends upon | |
| how near you sleep to me | |
| Just take this longing from my tongue | |
| all the lonely things my hands have done. | |
| Let me see your beauty broken down | |
| like you would do for one your love. | |
| Hungry as an archway | |
| through which the troops have passed, | |
| I stand in ruins behind you, | |
| with your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps. | |
| I love to see you naked over there | |
| especially from the back. | |
| Oh take this longing from my tongue, | |
| all the useless things my hands have done, | |
| untie for me your hired blue gown, | |
| like you would do for one that you love. | |
| You're faithful to the better man, | |
| I'm afraid that he left. | |
| So let me judge your love affair | |
| in this very room where I have sentenced | |
| mine to death. | |
| I'll even wear these old laurel leaves | |
| that he's shaken from his head. | |
| Just take this longing from my tongue, | |
| all the useless things my hands have done, | |
| let me see your beauty broken down, | |
| like you would do for one you love. | |
| Like you would do for one you love. |
| zuò qǔ : Leonard Cohen | |
| zuò cí : Leonard Cohen | |
| Take This Longing | |
| Leonard Cohen | |
| Many men have loved the bells | |
| you fastened to the rein, | |
| and everyone who wanted you | |
| they found what they will always want again. | |
| Your beauty lost to you yourself | |
| just as it was lost to them. | |
| Oh take this longing from my tongue, | |
| whatever useless things these hands have done. | |
| Let me see your beauty broken down | |
| like you would do for one you love. | |
| Your body like a searchlight | |
| my poverty revealed, | |
| I would like to try your charity | |
| until you cry, " Now you must try my greed." | |
| And everything depends upon | |
| how near you sleep to me | |
| Just take this longing from my tongue | |
| all the lonely things my hands have done. | |
| Let me see your beauty broken down | |
| like you would do for one your love. | |
| Hungry as an archway | |
| through which the troops have passed, | |
| I stand in ruins behind you, | |
| with your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps. | |
| I love to see you naked over there | |
| especially from the back. | |
| Oh take this longing from my tongue, | |
| all the useless things my hands have done, | |
| untie for me your hired blue gown, | |
| like you would do for one that you love. | |
| You' re faithful to the better man, | |
| I' m afraid that he left. | |
| So let me judge your love affair | |
| in this very room where I have sentenced | |
| mine to death. | |
| I' ll even wear these old laurel leaves | |
| that he' s shaken from his head. | |
| Just take this longing from my tongue, | |
| all the useless things my hands have done, | |
| let me see your beauty broken down, | |
| like you would do for one you love. | |
| Like you would do for one you love. |