(Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King, additional verse: Leonard Cohen) I was dancing with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz When an old friend I happened
(Leonard Cohen) [Based on a Quebec folk song] The sea so deep and blind The sun, the wild regret The club, the wheel, the mind, O love, aren't you
(Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson) You never liked to get The letters that I sent. But now you've got the gist Of what my letters meant. You're reading
(Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson) When it all went down And the pain came through I get it now I was there for you Don't ask me how I know it's true
(Leonard Cohen) [Dedicated to A. M. Klein (1909-1972)] Hurt once and for all into silence. A long pain ending without a song to prove it. Who could
(Leonard Cohen) I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched
(Words by Frank Scott, music by Leonard Cohen) From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play a greater part
