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Night Comes On (Live at Mönchengladbach Show 2012) (Live at Mönchengladbach Show 2012) - Leonard Cohen

I went down to the place
Where my mother lay waiting

Under the marble and the snow

I said mother I'm frightened
The thunder and the lightning
I'll never come through this alone

She said I'll be with you
My shawl wrapped around you
My hand on your head when you go

And the night comes on

And it's very calm

I wanted the night to go on and on
But she said go back back to the world

We were fighting in Egypt
When they signed this agreement
That nobody else had to die

There was this terrible sound
And my father went down

With a terrible wound in his side

He said try to go on
Take my books take my gun
Remember my son how they lied

And the night comes on

And it's very calm

I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong
But you don't want to lie not to the young

We were locked in this kitchen
I took to religion
And I wondered how long she would stay

I needed so much
To have nothing to touch
I've always been greedy that way

But my son and my daughter
Climbed out of the water
Crying Papa you promised to play

And they lead me away

To the great surprise
It's Papa don't peek Papa cover your eyes
And they hide hide in the world

Now I look for her always
I'm lost in this calling
I'm tied to the threads of some prayer

Saying when will she summon me
When will she come to me
What must I do to prepare

When she bends to my longing
Like a willow like a fountain
She stands in the luminous air

And the night comes on
And it's very calm

I lie in her arms she says when I'm gone
I'll be yours yours for a song

Now the crickets are singing
The vesper bells ringing

The cat's curled asleep in his chair

I'll go down to Bill's Bar
I can make it that far

And I'll see if my friends are still there

And here's to the few
Who forgive what you do
And the fewer who don't even care

And the night comes on

And it's very calm

I want to cross over I want to go home
But she says go back

Back to the world

I went down to the place
Where my mother lay waiting

Under the marble and the snow

I said mother I'm frightened
The thunder and the lightning
I'll never come through this alone

She said I'll be with you
My shawl wrapped around you
My hand on your head when you go

And the night comes on
It's very calm

I want to cross over I want to go home
But she says go back back to the world