Death of a Ladies' Man chords by Leonard Cohen
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Ah the man she
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wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
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"I never even knew how much
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I wanted you," she said.
His muscles they were numbered
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and his style was obsolete.
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"O baby, I have come too late."
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She knelt beside his feet.
"I'll never see a face like yours
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in years of men to come
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I'll never see such arms again
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in wrestling or in love."
And all his virtues burning in
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the smoky Holocaust
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She took unto herself most
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everything her lover lost
Now the master of this landscape
he was standing at the view
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With a sparrow of St. Francis
that he was preaching to
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She beckoned to the sentry of
his high religious mood
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She said, "I'll make a place
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between my legs,
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I'll show you solitude."
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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He offered her an orgy in
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a many mirrored room
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He promised her protection
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for the issue of her womb
She moved her body hard against
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a sharpened metal spoon
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She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the
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moon
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Verse 3
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She took his much admired
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oriental frame of mind
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And the heart-of-darkness alibi
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alibi alibi his money hides behind
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She took his blonde Madonna
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and his monastery wine
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"This mental space is occu
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pied and everything is mine."
Interlude 3
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Verse 4
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He tried to make a final stand be
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side the railway track
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She said, "The art of longing's over
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and it's never coming back."
She took his tavern parliament,
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his cap, his cocky dance,
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She mocked his female fashions and
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his working-class mustache.
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mustache.
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Verse 5
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The last time that I saw him
he was trying hard to get
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A woman's education but
he's not a woman yet
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And the last time that I saw her
she was living with some boy
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Who gives her soul an empty room
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and gives her body joy.
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So the great
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affair is over but
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whoever would have guessed
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It would leave us all so vacant
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and so deeply unimpressed
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It's like our visit to the
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moon or to that other star
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I guess you go for nothing if you really
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want to go that far.
Interlude 6
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Verse 7
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It's like our visit to the moon
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or to that other star
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I guess you go for nothing if you really
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want to go that far.
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It's like our visit
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to the
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moon or to that other star
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I guess you go for nothing if
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you really want to go that far.
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Death of a Ladies' Man
Leonard Cohen
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