Samson In New Orleans Lyrics - Popular Problems - Leonard Cohen

You said that you were with me 

You said you were my friend 

Did you really love the city 

Or did you just pretend 

You said you loved her secrets 

And her freedoms hid away 

She was better than America 

That's what I heard you say 

You said how could this happen 

You said how can this be 

The remnant all dishonored 

On the bridge of misery 

And we who cried for mercy 

From the bottom of the pit 

Was our prayer so damn unworthy 

The Son rejected it? 

So gather up the killers 

Get everyone in town 

Stand me by those pillars 

Let me take this temple down 

The king so kind and solemn 

He wears a bloody crown 

So stand me by that column 

Let me take this temple down 

You said how could this happen 

You said how can this be 

The chains are gone from heaven 

The storms are wild and free 

There's other ways to answer 

That certainly is true 

Me, I'm blind with death and anger 

And that's no place for you 

There's a woman in the window 

There's a bed in Tinsel Town 

I'll write you when it's over 

Let me take this temple down 

You said you loved her secrets 

Her freedoms hid away 

She was better than America 

That's what I heard you say