SUZANNE

by Leonard Cohen



Suzanne takes you down

To the place by the river

You can hear the boats go by

You can spend the night forever

And you know that she's half crazy

And that's why you want to be there

And she feeds you tea and oranges

That come all the way from China

And just when you want to tell her

That you have no love to give her

She gets you on her wavelength

And she lets the river answer

That you've always been her lover



And you want to travel with her

And you want to travel blind

And you think maybe you'll trust her

For she's touched your perfect body with her mind



And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water

And He spent a long time watching

From a lonely wooden tower

And when he knew for certain

Only drowning men could see him

He said, all men shall be sailors, then,

Until the sea shall free them

But He, himself was broken

Long before the sky would open

Forsaken, almost human

He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone



Suzanne takes you down

To the place by the river

You can hear the boats go by

You can spend the night forever

And the sun pours down like honey

On Our Lady of the Harbor

And she shows you where to look

Amidst the garbage and the flowers

There are heroes in the seaweed

There are children in the morning

They are leaning out for love

And they will lean that way forever

While Suzanne holds the mirror



recorded by Judy Collins on It's My Life

and by Belafonte on Homeward Bound

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