Humbled In Love Lyrics - Recent Songs - Leonard Cohen

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