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Total views: 1 time this week / Rating: 7.93/10 [14 votes]Album: Dear Heather / Original Release Date: 2004Genre: RockSong Duration: 5 min 55 sec
Villanelle For Our Time
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
LEONARD COHEN
Villanelle For Our Time Lyrics
From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.
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Songwriter(s): Leonard Cohen, Frank Scott
Record Label(s): 2004 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
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Cohen did not write the lyrics to this song. They are by F.R. Scott, who was a Canadian poet and one of Cohen's professors in university.