Take This Longing

Take This Longing easy guitar chords by Leonard Cohen

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  • Verse 1
    Many 
    men 
    have 
    loved the 
    bells 

    You 
    fastened 
    to 
    the rein 

    And everyone 
    who wanted 
    you 

    They found 
    what 
    they 
    will 

    al
    ways 
    want 
    again 

    Your 
    beauty 
    lost 
    to 
    you your
    self 

    Just 
    as 
    it was 
    lost 
    to them 

    Verse 2
    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 


    Verse 3
    Your 
    body 
    like 
    a search
    light 

    My 
    poverty 
    revealed 

    I would 
    like 
    to try 
    your 
    char
    ity 

    Until 
    you 
    cry, 
    "now 
    you must 
    try 

    my 
    greed" 

    And everything 
    depend
    s upon 

    How 
    near 
    you 
    sleep 
    to me 

    Verse 4
    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 


    Verse 5
    Hungry 
    as 
    an arch
    way 

    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 

    Verse 6
    Especially 
    from 
    the back 

    Oh, take 
    this 
    longing 
    from 
    my tongue 

    All 
    the useless 
    things 
    my 
    hands 
    have done 

    Un
    tie 
    for me 
    your 
    hired 
    blue 
    gown 

    Like 
    you 
    would do 
    for 
    one 
    that 
    you love 


    Verse 7
    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 
    have sen

    tenced 
    mine 
    to death 

    I'll 
    even 
    wear these 
    old 

    laurel 
    leaves 

    That he's 
    shaken 
    from his 
    head 

    Verse 8
    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 

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