Lyrics to
Humbled In Love

This version of Humbled In Love was released by Leonard Cohen in 1979.

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Do you remember all of those pledges
That we pledged in the passionate night
Ah they’re soiled now, they’re torn at the edges
Like moths on a still yellow light
No penance serves to renew them
No massive transfusions of trust
Why not even revenge can undo them
So twisted these vows and so crushed
And you say you’ve been humbled in love
Cut down in your love
Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one
Who kneels there as deeply as thee

Children have takes these pledges
They have ferried them out of the past
Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges
Where love must go hiding at last
And here where there is no description
Oh here in the moment at hand
No sinner need rise up forgiven
No victim need limp to the stand

And you say you’ve been humbled in love…

And look dear heart, look at the virgin
Look how she welcomes him into her gown
Yes, and mark how the stranger’s cold armour
Dissolves like a star falling down
Why trade this vision for desire
When you may have them both
You will never see a man this naked
I will never hold a woman this close

And you say you’ve been humbled in love…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Humbled In Love, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Leonard Cohen. Some of the lyrics to Humbled In Love have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Leonard Cohen and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Humbled In Love if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Humbled In Love" means the words set to the music of Humbled In Love, 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 Humbled In Love and the lyrics to Humbled In Love 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 Humbled In Love, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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