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“May everyone live,
And may everyone die.
Hello, my love,
And my love, Goodbye.”

"Here It Is"
Ten New Songs (2001)

“I'm crazy for love but
I'm not coming on.
I'm just paying my rent everyday
In the Tower Of Song.”

"Tower Of Song"
I'm Your Man (1988)
Context: My friends are gone and
My hair is grey.
I ache in the places where I used to play.
And I'm crazy for love but
I'm not coming on.
I'm just paying my rent everyday
In the Tower Of Song.

“The light came through the window,
Straight from the sun above,
And so inside my little room
There plunged the rays of Love.”

"Love Itself"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Context: p>The light came through the window,
Straight from the sun above,
And so inside my little room
There plunged the rays of Love.In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the Nameless makes
A Name for one like me.</p

“On that fundamental ground
Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound
And half the perfect world is found.”

"Half the Perfect World" (2006) (co-written with Anjani)
Other Lyrics
Context: The candles burned
The moon went down
The polished hill
The milky town
Transparent, weightless, luminous
Uncovering the two of us
On that fundamental ground
Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound
And half the perfect world is found.

“But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone”

"Suzanne"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

“You whisper, "You have loved enough,
Now let me be the Lover."”

"You Have Loved Enough"
Ten New Songs (2001)

“And you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover”

"Song", The Spice-Box of Earth (1961)

“Ah, grief makes us precise!”

Source: Beautiful Losers