Leonard Cohen — Villanelle for Our Time
From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play a greater part This is the faith from which we start: Am7 Men shall know commonwealth again from bitter searching of the heart We loved the easy and the Fmaj7 smart, but now, with keener hand and brain, we rise Cmaj7 to play a greater part The lesser loyalties depart, and neither race nor Fmaj7 creed remain from bitter searching of the heart Not steering by the Am7 venal chart that tricked the mass for private gain, we rise Fmaj7 to play a greater part Reshaping narrow law and art whose symbols Cmaj7 are the millions slain, from bitter searching of the heart we rise to play Fmaj7 a greater part Am7 Fmaj7 Am7 Fmaj7 This is the faith from which we start: Men shall Cmaj7 know commonwealth again from bitter G Fmaj7 searching of the heart we rise to play a Cmaj7 greater part Fmaj7 The lesser loyalties depart, and neither Am7 race nor creed remain from bitter Fmaj7 searching of the heart we rise to play a Cmaj7 greater part Reshaping Fmaj7 narrow law and art whose symbols are the millions Cmaj7 slain, from G Fmaj7 bitter searching of the heart we rise to play a Cmaj7 greater part This is the Fmaj7 faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth Cmaj7 again from bitter G Fmaj7 searching of the heart we rise to play a Cmaj7 greater part Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Am7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Cmaj7 Em7 Em7/B Am7 This is the Fmaj7 faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth Cmaj7 again from bitter G Fmaj7 searching of the heart we rise to play a Cmaj7 greater part Not steering Fmaj7 by the venal chart that tricked the mass for private Cmaj7 private gain, we rise, G Fmaj7 we rise to play a Cmaj7 greater part Reshaping narrow Fmaj7 law and art whose symbols are the millions Cmaj7 slain, from G Fmaj7 bitter searching of the heart we rise to play a Cmaj7 greater part Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Cmaj7
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