death of a ladies' man

• leonard cohen'in 1977 tarihli, kapağında 2 güzel bayanın arasına oturmuş bir şekilde hafiften gülümsemeye çalışan bir resmi olduğu albüm ve aynı zamanda albümün 9'15'' lik uzun bir şarkısıdır. phil spector'ın etkisinden olsa gerek bu şarkı hafiften beatles ve john lennon şarkılarını andırmaktadır. bir adam ve bir kadının hikayesinden bir kesit sunan sözlerde uzundur ve bu yüzden sanırım henüz yazılmamış buraya..
  
  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.