 Genius Lyrics
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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan
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This song is an adaptation made by Hy Zaret of “La Complainte du Partisan” written in 1943, by Emmanuel D'Astier de la Vigerie (called “Bernard” in the French Resistance) and Anna
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Mick Gordon (Ft. Tex Perkins) – The Partisan
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When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender / This I could not do; / I took my gun and vanished / I have changed my name so often / I've lost my wife and
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16 Horsepower (Ft. Bertrand Cantat) – The Partisan
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When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender / This I could not do; / I took my gun and vanished / I have changed my name so often / I've lost my wife and
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Henry Jamison – The Partisan
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When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender / This I could not do; / I took my gun and vanished / I have changed my name so often / I have lost my wife and
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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan (Live in Dublin)
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When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender / This I could not do; / I took my gun and vanished / I have changed my name so often / I have lost my wife and
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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan (Live in Helsinki)
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When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender / This I could not do; / I took my gun and vanished / I have changed my name so often / I've lost my wife and
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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan (Live at the Isle of Wight)
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When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender / This I could not do; / I took my gun and vanished / I have changed my name so often / I have lost my wife and
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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan Samples
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See all of “The Partisan” by Leonard Cohen’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Joan Baez – The Partisan
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They poured across the borders / We were cautioned to surrender / This I could not do / Into the hills I vanished / No one ever asks me / Who I am or where I'm going / But those of
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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan Covers
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See all of “The Partisan” by Leonard Cohen’s covers
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Esther Ofarim - אסתר עופרים – Song Of The French Partisan
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When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender / This I could not do; / I took my gun and vanished / An old woman gave us shelter / Kept us hidden in the garret
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Anna Marly – Le Chant des Partisans Covers
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See all of “Le Chant des Partisans” by Anna Marly’s covers
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Amir Ali A2 – Partisan
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[قسمت اول] / لاکداونه و نُهِ شب بهبعد / نمیشه تو خیابونا پرسه زد / اگه کسی نشونهای دید از خرابکاری و نگه بعد به من / وای به حال همه اهلِ شهر / دیده شده میخ میکارن سر راهِ همه
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Anna Marly – Le Chant des Partisans
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Ami, entends-tu le vol noir des corbeaux sur nos plaines? / Ami, entends-tu les cris sourds du pays qu'on enchaîne? / Ohé, partisans, ouvriers et paysans, c'est l'alarme ! / Ce
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Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (Live in London)
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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel / You were talking so brave and so sweet / Giving me head on the unmade bed / While the Limousines wait in the street / Those were the
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Leonard Cohen – So Long, Marianne
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Marianne is Marianne Ihlen, ex-wife of the Norwegian author Axel Jensen, who was a friend of Leonard. Leonard lived with Marianne in Greece together, in the 1960s, after Axel
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Leonard Cohen – That Don't Make It Junk (Live in London)
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I fought against the bottle / But I had to do it drunk - / Took my diamond to the pawnshop - / But that don't make it junk / I fought against the bottle / But I had to do it drunk
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Leonard Cohen – Heart With No Companion (Live in Oberhausen)
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Now I greet you from the other side / Of sorrow and despair / With a love so vast and shattered / It will reach you everywhere / And I sing this for the captain / Whose ship has
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Leonard Cohen – Waiting for the Miracle (Live in San Jose)
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{Intro} / Baby, I've been waiting / I've been waiting night and day / I didn't see the time / Yeah I waited half my life away / There were lots of invitations / And I know you sent
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Leonard Cohen – Nevermind
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From Leonard Cohen’s 2014 Popular Problems album.
As is the case with many of his songs, this one also took years to evolve, first appearing as a poem in 2005 on a website, and
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Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire (Live in Glasgow)
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Like a bird on the wire / Like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be free / Like a worm on a hook / Like a knight penned down in some old fashioned book / It
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Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire
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This is the opening song to 1969’s Songs from a Room. It’s a kind of Cohen’s own “My Way.” Country musician Kris Kristofferson has stated he wants the first three lines on his
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Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah (Live in Indio)
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[Verse 1] / Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do you? / It goes like this, the fourth, the
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Leonard Cohen – Sisters of Mercy
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Can’t describe it better than Leonard Cohen:
That’s the only song I wrote in one sitting. The melody I had worked on for some time. I didn’t really know what the song was. I
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Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat
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From the acclaimed 1971 album Songs of Love and Hate – a very personal song in a form of a letter from one side of a love triangle to another, invoking multiple images including
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