Leonard Cohen: Lighting

“Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”

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

“There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah”

“In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the Nameless makes
A Name for one like me…
All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance,
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance.”

“I dreamed about you baby.
It was just the other night.
Most of you was naked
Ah, but some of you was light.”

“I don't remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone.”

“When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want to summon
the eyes and hidden mouths
of stone and light and water
to testify against you.”

“In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.”

“Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.”