“You met him at some temple, where
they take your clothes at the door
He was just a numberless man in a chair
who'd just come back from the war.
And you wrap up his tired face in your hair and he hands you the apple core
Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare of all the kisses we put on some time before.”
More from Leonard Cohen
“I'll never come through this alone.”
“Love is a fire. It burns everyone. It disfigures everyone. It is the world’s excuse for…”
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”