Leonard Cohen 's A Thousand Kisses Deep: Recitation

"You came to me this morning

And you handled me like meat.

You´d have to live alone to know

How good that feels, how sweet.

My mirror twin, my next of kin,

I´d know you in my sleep.

And who but you would take me in

A thousand kisses deep?

I loved you when you opened

Like a lily to the heat.

I´m just another snowman

Standing in the rain and sleet,

Who loved you with his frozen love

His second-hand physique -

With all he is, and all he was

A thousand kisses deep.

I know you had to lie to me,

I know you had to cheat.

To pose all hot and high

Behind the veils of sheer deceit

Our perfect porn aristocrat

So elegant and cheap.

I'm old but I'm still into that

A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I'm Good at Love

I'm Good at Hate

It's in between I freeze

Been working out but it's too late

It's been too late for years

But you look good,

You really do,

They love you on the street.

If you were here I'd kneel for you

A Thousand Kisses Deep.

The autumn moved across yr skin

Got something in my eye

The light that doesn't need to live

And doesn't need to die

A riddle in the book of love

Obscure and obsolete

Till witnessed here in time and blood

A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And I´m still working with the wine,

Still dancing cheek to cheek.

The band is playing "Auld Lang Syne" -

The heart will not retreat.

I ran with Diz, I sang with Ray,

I never had their sweet

But once or twice they let me play

A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I loved you when you opened

Like a lily to the heat.

I´m just another snowman

Standing in the rain and sleet,

Who loved you with his frozen love

His second-hand physique -

With all he is, and all he was

A thousand kisses deep.

But you don't need to hear me now

And every word I speak

It counts against me anyhow

A Thousand Kisses Deep."