Love Calls You By Your Name

Song Love Calls You By Your Name
Artist Leonard Cohen
Album The Complete Studio Albums Collection

Lyrics

[00:12.37] You thought that it could never happen
[00:17.00] to all the people that you became,
[00:24.33] your body lost in legend, the beast so very tame.
[00:35.18] But here, right here,
[00:41.07] between the birthmark and the stain,
[00:46.12] between the ocean and your open vein,
[00:51.73] between the snowman and the rain,
[00:58.08] once again, once again,
[01:06.98] love calls you by your name.
[01:16.32]
[01:17.48] The women in your scrapbook
[01:22.64] whom you still praise and blame,
[01:28.40] you say they chained you to your fingernails
[01:33.36] and you climb the halls of fame.
[01:39.20] Oh but here, right here,
[01:44.69] between the peanuts and the cage,
[01:50.04] between the darkness and the stage,
[01:56.01] between the hour and the age,
[02:01.67] once again, once again,
[02:10.65] love calls you by your name.
[02:17.73]
[02:20.71] Shouldering your loneliness
[02:24.97] like a gun that you will not learn to aim,
[02:31.68] you stumble into this movie house,
[02:36.37] then you climb, you climb into the frame.
[02:42.00] Yes, and here, right here
[02:47.67] between the moonlight and the lane,
[02:53.59] between the tunnel and the train,
[02:58.80] between the victim and his stain,
[03:04.75] once again, once again,
[03:13.98] love calls you by your name.
[03:22.21]
[03:23.80] I leave the lady meditating
[03:27.77] on the very love which I, I do not wish to claim,
[03:34.99] I journey down the hundred steps,
[03:39.55] but the street is still the very same.
[03:45.59] And here, right here,
[03:51.03] between the dancer and his cane,
[03:56.57] between the sailboat and the drain,
[04:02.34] between the newsreel and your tiny pain,
[04:08.49] once again, once again,
[04:17.15] love calls you by your name.
[04:25.95]
[04:27.35] Where are you, Judy, where are you, Anne?
[04:33.00] Where are the paths your heroes came?
[04:39.22] Wondering out loud as the bandage pulls away,
[04:44.77] was I, was I only limping, was I really lame?
[04:49.93] Oh here, come over here,
[04:54.94] between the windmill and the grain,
[05:00.79] between the sundial and the chain,
[05:06.39] between the traitor and her pain,
[05:12.90] once again, once again,
[05:22.01] love calls you by your name.