Chords:
{title: Take This Longing}
{artist: Leonard Cohen}
{key: C }
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Qk_4emjEs capo 2
[C]
[Bb] Many men have loved the [F] bells
[Bb] You fastened to the [F] rein
[Dm] And everyone who wanted [Gm] you
[Dm] They found what they will [C] always [Dm] want a-[C]gain
[Em] Your beauty lost to you your-[Am]self
Just [Em] as it was lost to [Am] them
Oh [F] take this longing from my [C] tongue
What-[F]ever useless things these hands have [C] done
[F] Let me see your beauty broken [C] down
[Em] Like you would [F] do for one you [C] love
[Bb] Your body like a [F] searchlight
[Bb] My poverty re-[F]vealed
[Dm] I would like to try your [Gm] charity
[Dm] Until you cry, "[C] Now you must [Dm] try my [C] greed."
[Em] And everything depends [Am] upon
How [Em] near you sleep to [Am] me
Oh [F] take this longing from my [C] tongue
[F] All the lonely things my hands have [C] done
[F] Let me see your beauty broken [C] down
[Em] Like you would [F] do for one you [C] love
[Bb] Hungry as an [F] archway
[Bb] Through which the troops have [F] passed
[Dm] I stand in ruins be-[Gm]hind you
With your winter [Dm] clothes, your [C] broken [Dm] sandal [C] straps
[Em] I love to see you naked over [Am] there
[Em] Especially from the [Am] back
Oh [F] take this longing from my [C] tongue
[F] All the useless things my hands have [C] don
[F] Untie for me your hired blue [C] gown
[Em] Like you would [F] do for one you [C] love
[Bb] You're faithful to the better [F] man
[Bb] I'm afraid that he [F] left
[Dm] So let me judge your love a-[Gm]ffair
In this very [Dm] room where I have [C] sentenced [Dm] mine to [C] death
[Em] I'll even wear these old laurel [Am] leaves
That he's [Em] shaken from his [Am] head
Just [F] take this longing from my [C] tongue
[F] All the useless things my hands have [C] done
[F] Let me see your beauty broken [C] down
[Em] Like you would [F] do for one you [C] love
Like you would [F] do for one you [C] love
