Avalanche – Leonard Cohen
Nghệ sĩ: Leonard Cohen
CHORD
Bảng hợp âm và lời bài hát Avalanche – Leonard Cohen
Album: Songs of Love and Hate (1971)
Capo 1
Advice: when passing from C/G to Em, play the open A string.
Intro
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
I stepped into an avalanche,
it covered up my soul;
When I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath a golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn, learn to serve me well.
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
You strike my side by accident
As you go down for your gold.
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
Is neither starved nor cold;
He does not ask for your company,
Not at the centre, the centre of the world.
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
When I am on a pedestal,
You did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
To kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare.
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
You who wish to conquer pain,
You must learn what makes me kind;
The crumbs of love that you offer me,
They’re the crumbs I’ve left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
It’s just the shadow, shadow of my wound.
Verse 5→ Phiên khúc
I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I who have no need.
You say you’ve gone away from me,
But I can feel you when you breathe.
Verse 6→ Phiên khúc
Do not dress in those rags for me,
I know you are not poor;
And don’t love me quite so fiercely now
When you know that you are not sure,
It is your turn, beloved,
And it is your flesh that I wear.
Outro