Leonard Cohen
Marianne's Desk (1988)
Source: YouTube JackGoesYT, Data de publicació: 31 d’ag. 2012
Documentation (in German): Leonard Cohen in Greece - with Perla Batalla, Julie Christensen and Bob Metzger.
10:32; 97M; MP4
00:00 - Beneath My Hands*
01:45 - Hydra
04:30 - Marianne's Desk
05:14 - Bird On The Wire (Live)
07:50 - Marianne's Desk 2
Music & Poem: Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)
Location: Hydra (Saronic Islands, Greece)
*BENEATH MY HANDS from "The Spice-Box of Earth" (1961).
Beneath my hands
Your small breasts
Are the upturned bellies
Of breathing fallen sparrows
Wherever you move
I hear the sounds of closing wings
Of falling wings
I am speechless
Because you have fallen beside me
Because your eyelashes
Are the spines of tiny fragile animals
I dread the time
When your mouth
Begins to call me hunter
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
I want them
To surrender before you
The trembling rhyme of your face
From their deep caskets
When you call me close
To tell me
Your body is not beautiful
I want my body and my hands
To be pools
For your looking and laughing