Death of a ladies' man lyrics

Artist  : Leonard cohen 
Song : Death of a ladies' man
 
Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by
a thread 
"I never even knew how much I wanted you," she
said. 
His muscles they were numbered and his style was
obsolete. 
"O baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside
his feet. 
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men
to come 
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in
love." 
And all his virtues burning in the smoky
Holocaust 
She took unto herself most everything her lover
lost 
Now the master of this landscape he was standing
at the view 
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was
preaching to 
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious
mood 
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, 
I'll show you solitude." 

He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room 
He promised her protection for the issue of her
womb 
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal
spoon 
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the
moon 

She took his much admired oriental frame of mind 
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides
behind 
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery
wine -- 
"This mental space is occupied and everything is
mine." 

He tried to make a final stand beside the railway
track 
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's
never coming back." 
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his
cocky dance, 
she mocked his female fashions and his
working-class moustache. 

The last time that I saw him he was trying hard
to get 
a woman's education but he's not a woman yet 
And the last time that I saw her she was living
with some boy 
who gives her soul an empty room and gives her
body joy. 

So the great affair is over but whoever would
have guessed 
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply
unimpressed 
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other
star 
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to
go that far. 

It's like our visit to the moon or to that other
star 
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to
go that far. 

It's like our visit to the moon or to that other
star 
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to
go that far.