Dedicated to A. M. Klein 1909-1972
Words and music by Leonard Cohen
words from Spice-Box of the Earth
Hurt once and for all into silence.
A long pain ending without a song to prove it.
Who could stand beside you so close to Eden
When you glinted in every eye the held-high
razorshivering every ram and son?
And now the silent loony binwhere
The shadows live in the rafters like
Day-weary bats
Until the turning minda radar signal
lures them to exaggerate
Mountain-size on the white stone wall
Your tiny limp.
How can I leave you in such a house?
Are there no more saints and wizards
to praise their ways with pupils
No more evil to stun with the slap
of a wet red tongue?
Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror
and rest because he had finally come?
Let me cry Help beside youTeacher.
I have entered under this dark roof
As fearlessly as an honoured son
Enters his father s house.

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