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Death Of A Ladies’ Man

Released by Leonard Cohen in 1977
From the Album: Death Of A Ladies' Man |

This version of Death Of A Ladies’ Man was released by Leonard Cohen in 1977.

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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.


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Leonard Cohen has released many songs over the years besides Death Of A Ladies’ Man. Leonard Cohen released songs from 1967 to 2004 spanning across albums like Songs Of Leonard Cohen, Songs From A Room, Songs Of Love And Hate, New Skin For The Old Ceremony, Death Of A Ladies' Man, Recent Songs, Various Positions, I'm Your Man, The Future, Ten New Songs, and Dear Heather. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Leonard Cohen.

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The lyrics to Death Of A Ladies’ Man are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Leonard Cohen used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Death Of A Ladies’ Man have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Leonard Cohen and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Death Of A Ladies’ Man by Leonard Cohen. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Death Of A Ladies’ Man" means the words set to the music of Death Of A Ladies’ Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Leonard Cohen. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Death Of A Ladies’ Man and the lyrics to Death Of A Ladies’ Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Leonard Cohen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Death Of A Ladies’ Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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