Steer Your Way Lyrics - Leonard Cohen

Steer your way through the ruins 

Of the altar and the mall 

Steer your way through the fables 

Of creation and the fall 

Steer your way past the palaces 

That rise above the rot 

Year by year 

Month by month 

Day by day 

Thought by thought 

Steer your heart past the truth 

You believed in yesterday 

Such as fundamental goodness 

And the wisdom of the way 

Steer your heart, precious heart 

Past the women whom you bought 

Year by year 

Month by month 

Day by day 

Thought by thought 

Steer your path through the pain 

That is far more real than you 

That smashed the cosmic model 

That blinded every view 

And please don't make me go there 

Tho' there be a god or not 

Year by year 

Month by month 

Day by day 

Thought by thought 

They whisper still, the ancient stones 

The blunted mountains weep 

As he died to make men holy 

Let us die to make things cheap 

And say the Mea Culpa which you've probably forgot 

Year by year 

Month by month 

Day by day 

Thought by thought 

Steer your way, o my heart 

Tho' I have no right to ask 

To the one who was never 

Never equal to the task 

Who knows he's been convicted 

Who knows he will be shot 

Year by year 

Month by month 

Day by day 

Thought by thought 

They whisper still, the ancient stones 

The blunted mountains weep 

As he died to make men holy 

Let us die to make things cheap 

And say the Mea Culpa which you gradually forgot 

Year by year 

Month by month 

Day by day 

Thought by thought