You Want It Darker Lyrics - Leonard Cohen

[Verse 1: Leonard Cohen] 

If you are the dealer 

I'm out of the game 

If you are the healer 

It means I'm broken and lame 

If thine is the glory then 

Mine must be the shame 

You want it darker 

We kill the flame 

[Verse 2: Leonard Cohen] 

Magnified, sanctified 

Be thy holy name 

Vilified, crucified 

In the human frame 

A million candles burning 

For the help that never came 

You want it darker 

[Chorus: Leonard Cohen] 

Hineni, hineni 

I'm ready, my Lord 

[Verse 3: Leonard Cohen] 

There's a lover in the story 

But the story's still the same 

There's a lullaby for suffering 

And a paradox to blame 

But it's written in the scriptures 

And it's not some idle claim 

You want it darker 

We kill the flame 

[Verse 4: Leonard Cohen] 

They're lining up the prisoners 

And the guards are taking aim 

I struggled with some demons 

They were middle-class and tame 

I didn't know I had permission 

To murder and to maim 

You want it darker 

[Chorus: Leonard Cohen] 

Hineni, hineni 

I'm ready, my Lord 

[Verse 5: Leonard Cohen] 

Magnified, sanctified 

Be thy holy name 

Vilified, crucified 

In the human frame 

A million candles burning 

For the love that never came 

You want it darker 

We kill the flame 

[Verse 6: Leonard Cohen] 

If you are the dealer 

Let me out of the game 

If you are the healer 

I'm broken and lame 

If thine is the glory 

Mine must be the shame 

You want it darker 

[Chorus: Leonard Cohen] 

Hineni, hineni 

Hineni, hineni 

I'm ready, my Lord 

[Outro: Cantor Gideon Zelermyer] 

Hineni 

Hineni, hineni 

Hineni