Is This What You Wanted Lyrics - New Skin For The Old Ceremony - Leonard Cohen

You were the promise at dawn 

I was the morning after 

You were Jesus Christ my Lord 

I was the money lender 

You were the sensitive woman 

I was the very reverend Freud 

You were the manual orgasm 

I was the dirty little boy 

And is this what you wanted 

To live in a house that is haunted 

By the ghost of you and me? 

Is this what you wanted... 

You were Marlon Brando 

I was Steve Mcqueen 

You were k.y. jelly 

I was vaseline 

You were the father of modern medicine 

I was Mr. Clean 

You where the whore and the beast of Babylon 

I was Rin Tin Tin 

And is this what you wanted... 

And is this what you wanted... 

You got old and wrinkled 

I stayed seventeen 

You lusted after so many 

I lay here with one 

You defied your solitude 

I came through alone 

You said you could never love me 

I undid your gown