Leonard Cohen Christmas
Mark Stepakoff (2016)
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Tomorrow is the Yuletide, but I’m not feeling jolly
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I think I’m gonna stay inside and wallow in my melancholy
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Put on some music guaranteed to keep the teardrops flowing
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I’m spending Christmas Eve, with Leonard Cohen
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I’m stocking up on vodka, sleeping pills and Pepto-Bismol
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I’m drinking to the future, though The Future, is so dark and dismal
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It’s pretty much the saddest sound the world has ever known
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Yes, I’m spending Christmas Eve with Leonard Cohen
[Bridge]
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Well, Neil Young can bring you down, And Jonie Mitchell’s blue
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But when you’ve hit rock bottom just one folk singer will do
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When I put on that famous Blue Raincoat, I wanna slit my wrists, yes
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It’s going to be a Leonard Cohen Christmas
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Of course there’s Hallelujah, you all know that one I guess
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But that’s really for the amateur, not the clinically depressed
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But Last Year’s Man and Avalanche, they always get me going
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When I’m spending Christmas Eve with Leonard Cohen
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[Solo]
[Bridge]
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Well, I can hear the carolers outside my bedroom walls
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The old familiar chestnuts, Jingle Bells and Deck the Halls
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But no one-horse sleigh or Mel Tormé, will ever make my wish list
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I’m having me a Leonard Cohen Christmas
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So, First We Take Manhattan, then it’s So Long Marianne
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The Dress Rehearsal Rag and then the second side of I’m Your Man
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The festive lights are everywhere and Rudolph’s nose is glowing
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But, I’m spending Christmas Eve with Leonard Cohen
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The Poet Laureate for all the lonesome and the listless
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It’s going to be a Leonard Cohen Christ-mas