Boogie Street - Leonard Cohen

O Crown of Light, O Darkened One,
I never thought we’d meet.
You kiss my lips, and then it’s done:
I’m back on Boogie Street.
A sip of wine, a cigarette,And then it’s time to go.
I tidied up the kitchenette;I tuned the old banjo.
I’m wanted at the traffic-jam.They’re saving me a seat.
I’m what I am, and what I am,Is back on Boogie Street.

And O my love, I still recallThe pleasures that we knew;
The rivers and the waterfall,Wherein I bathed with you.
Bewildered by your beauty there,I’d kneel to dry your feet.
By such instructions you prepareA man for Boogie Street.O Crown of Light, O Darkened One…So come, my friends, be not afraid.We are so lightly here.


It is in love that we are made;
In love we disappear.

Tho’ all the maps of blood and fleshAre posted on the door,
There’s no one who has told us yetWhat Boogie Street is for.
O Crown of Light, O Darkened One,
I never thought we’d meet.
You kiss my lips, and then it’s done:
I’m back on Boogie Street.

A sip of wine, a cigarette,And then it’s time to go . . .

-ayp