Alexandra Leaving - Leonard Cohen

[00:00.000] 作词 : Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson
[00:00.527] 作曲 : Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson
[00:01.54]Suddenly the night has grown colder.
[00:09.66]The god of love preparing to depart.
[00:18.13]Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
[00:26.22]They slip between the sentries of the heart.
[00:33.22]Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,
[00:41.82]They gain the light, they formlessly entwine;
[00:50.88]And radiant beyond your widest measure
[00:59.32]They fall among the voices and the wine.
[01:08.32]It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving,
[01:16.36]A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust -
[01:25.40]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[01:33.57]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
[01:42.95]Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
[01:51.30]Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
[01:59.59]Do not say the moment was imagined;
[02:07.76]Do not stoop to strategies like this.
[02:15.91]As someone long prepared for this to happen,
[02:24.07]Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
[02:31.02]Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.
[02:40.77]Your firm commitments tangible again.
[02:49.26]And you who had the honor of her evening,
[02:57.90]And by the honor had your own restored -
[03:06.89]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving;
[03:15.56]Alexandra leaving with her lord.
[03:22.30]Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
[03:30.52]Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
[03:38.80]Do not say the moment was imagined;
[03:47.08]Do not stoop to strategies like this.
[03:57.35]As someone long prepared for the occasion;
[04:05.52]In full command of every plan you wrecked -
[04:14.24]Do not choose a coward's explanation
[04:22.06]that hides behind the cause and the effect.
[04:28.96]And you who were bewildered by a meaning;
[04:37.18]Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed -
[04:46.02]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[04:54.31]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
[05:02.46]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[05:10.77]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.