TAKE THIS LONGING (Leonard Cohen)


INTRO:  C   

Bb                           F
   Many men have loved the bells
Bb                       F
   you fastened to the rain
Dm                  Gm
   And ev'ryone who wanted you
Dm                            C      Dm        C
    they found what they will always    want again
Em                             Am
   Your beauty lost to you yourself
     Em                 Am
just as it was lost to them


       F                         C
Just, take this longing from my tongue
     F                                 C
What ever useless things my hands have done
 F                             C
Let me see your beauty broken down
Em                 F               C
    Like you would do for one you love


Bb                    F
   Your body like a searchlight
Bb               F
   My poverty revealed
Dm                            Gm
    I would like to try your charity
Dm                 C          Dm           C
   Until you cry, now you must    try my greed
Em                   Am
   And everything depends upon
     Em               Am
How near you sleep to me


Bb               F
   Hungry as an archway
Bb                                F
   throuht which the troops have passed
Dm                     Gm
   I stand in ruins behind you 
                 Dm      C            Dm        C
With your winterclothes,  your broken saddle straps
Em                               Am
    I love to see you naked over there
Em                      Am
   Especially from the back


Bb                          F
   You're faithtful to the better man
Bb                      F
    I'm afraid that he left
Dm                      Gm
   So let me judge your love affair
              Dm                C        Dm        C
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
Em                          Am
   I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
           Em              Am
that he's shaken from his head  


       F                         C
Just, take this longing from my tongue
     F                                 C
What ever useless things my hands have done
 F                             C
Let me see your beauty broken down
Em                 F               C
    Like you would do for one you love
                    F               C
    Like you would do for one you love