[id:$00000000] [ar:Leonard Cohen] [ti:Master Song] [by:] [hash:2fb30ef2e43ab1af188a39ca18a8bba9] [al:] [sign:] [qq:] [total:0] [offset:0] [00:09.54]I believe that you heard your master sing [00:15.04]When I was sick in bed [00:18.16]I suppose that he told you everything [00:22.35]That I keep locked away in my head [00:26.35]Your master took you travelling' [00:30.49]Well at least that's what you said [00:34.73]And now do you come back to bring [00:38.48]Your prisoner wine and bread [00:48.79]You met him at some temple' where [00:53.42]They take your clothes at the door [00:56.85]He was just a numberless man in a chair [01:01.35]Who'd just come back from the war [01:04.48]And you wrap up his tired face in your hair [01:08.85]And he hands you the apple core [01:12.36]Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare [01:16.23]Of all the kisses we put on some time before [01:26.60]And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk [01:30.79]With a collar of leather and nails' [01:34.23]And he never once made you explain or talk [01:38.60]About all of the little details' [01:41.98]Such as who had a word and who had a rock' [01:47.98]And who had you through the mails [01:50.60]Now your love is a secret all over the block' [01:54.05]And it never stops not even when your master fails [02:03.92]And he took you up in his aeroplane' [02:07.67]Which he flew without any hands' [02:11.48]And you cruised above the ribbons of rain [02:15.61]That drove the crowd from the stands [02:19.30]Then he killed the lights in a lonely Lane [02:23.61]And' an ape with angel glands' [02:27.36]Erased the final wisps of pain [02:31.17]With the music of rubber bands [02:41.36]And now I hear your master sing' [02:45.17]You kneel for him to come [02:49.10]His body is a golden string [02:54.06]That your body is hanging from [02:57.06]His body is a golden string' [03:01.00]My body has grown numb [03:04.87]Oh now you hear your master sing' [03:08.87]Your shirt is all undone [03:18.81]And will you kneel beside this bed [03:23.25]That we polished so long ago' [03:26.74]Before your master chose instead [03:30.79]To make my bed of snow [03:34.48]Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red [03:38.91]And you're speaking far too low [03:42.04]No I can't make out what your master said [03:46.35]Before he made you go [03:56.36]Then I think you're playing far too rough [04:00.41]For a lady who's been to the moon; [04:04.29]I've lain by this window long enough [04:08.17]To get used to an empty room [04:11.98]And your love is some dust in an old man's cough [04:16.23]Who is tapping his foot to a tune' [04:20.23]And your thighs are a ruin' you want too much' [04:24.10]Let's say you came back some time too soon [04:34.47]I loved your master perfectly [04:38.48]I taught him all that he knew [04:42.35]He was starving in some deep mystery [04:46.48]Like a man who is sure what is true [04:50.22]And I sent you to him with my guarantee [04:53.98]I could teach him something new' [04:58.16]And I taught him how you would long for me [05:02.16]No matter what he said no matter what you'd do [05:12.48]I believe that you heard your master sing [05:16.86]While I was sick in bed' [05:20.36]I'm sure that he told you everything [05:24.23]I must keep locked away in my head [05:28.42]Your master took you travelling' [05:31.67]Well at least that's what you said' [05:36.54]And now do you come back to bring [05:40.36]Your prisoner wine and bread