Recitation Lyrics - Leonard Cohen

You came to me this morning 

And you handled me like meat 

You?d have to be a man to know 

How good that feels, how sweet 

My mirror twin, my next of kin 

I?d know you in my sleep 

And who but you would take me in 

A thousand kisses deep 

I loved you when you opened 

Like a lily to the heat 

You see I?m just another snowman 

Standing in the rain and sleet 

Who loved you with his frozen love 

His secondhand physique 

With all he is and all he was 

A thousand kisses deep 

I know you had to lie to me 

I know you had to cheat 

To pose all hot and high 

Behind the veils of sheer deceit 

Our perfect porn aristocrat 

So elegant and cheap 

I?m old but I?m still into that 

A thousand kisses deep 

I?m good at love, I?m good at hate 

It?s in between I freeze 

Been working out but it?s too late 

(It?s been too late for years) 

But you look good, you really do 

They love you on the street 

If you were here I?d kneel for you 

A thousand kisses deep 

The autumn moved across your skin 

Got something in my eye 

A light that doesn?t need to live 

And doesn?t need to die 

A riddle in the book of love 

Obscure and obsolete 

And witnessed here in time and blood 

A thousand kisses deep 

But I?m still working with the wine 

Still dancing cheek to cheek 

The band is playing Auld Lang Syne 

But the heart will not retreat 

I ran with Diz, I sang with Ray 

I never had their sweet 

But once or twice they let me play 

A thousand kisses deep 

I loved you when you opened 

Like a lily to the heat 

You see I?m just another snowman 

Standing in the rain and sleet 

Who loved you with his frozen love 

His secondhand physique 

With all he is and all he was 

A thousand kisses deep 

But you don?t need to hear me now 

And every word I speak 

It counts against me anyhow 

A thousand kisses deep