Master Song chords by Leonard Cohen

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Intro:
A minorAm


Verse 1:
   Bb majorBb            A minorAm
I believe that you heard your master sing
   Bb majorBb       A minorAm
when I was sick in bed.
   Bb majorBb           A minorAm
I suppose that he told you everything
    Bb majorBb           A minorAm
that I keep locked away in my head.
   Bb majorBb       DmDm
Your master took you travelling,
    FF           G+G
well at least that's what you said.
  C majorC   E minorEm    C majorC   E minorEm
And now do you come back to bring
   FF         E MajorE    A minorAm
your prisoner wine and bread?

Verse 2:
  Bb majorBb       A minorAm
You met him at some temple, where
   Bb majorBb            A minorAm
they take your clothes at the door.
    Bb majorBb        A minorAm
He was just a numberless man in a chair
    Bb majorBb          A minorAm
who'd just come back from the war.
    Bb majorBb         DmDm
And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
    FF          G+G
and he hands you the apple core.
    C majorC      E minorEm    C majorC      E minorEm
Then he touches your lips, now so suddenly bare
      FF               E MajorE  A minorAm
of all the kisses we put on some time before.


Verse 3:
    Bb majorBb         A minorAm
And he gave you a German shepherd to walk
    Bb majorBb          A minorAm
with a collar of leather and nails,
    Bb majorBb           A minorAm
and he never once made you explain or talk
   Bb majorBb          A minorAm
About all of the little details,
    Bb majorBb         DmDm
such as who had a word and who had a rock,
    FF         G+G
and who had you through the mails.
     C majorC    E minorEm      C majorC    E minorEm
Now your love is a secret all over the block,
    FF                  E MajorE   A minorAm
and it never stops not even when your master fails.

Verse 4:
    Bb majorBb         A minorAm
And he took you up in his aeroplane,
     Bb majorBb        A minorAm
which he flew without any hands,
    Bb majorBb         A minorAm
and you cruised above the ribbons of rain
   Bb majorBb           A minorAm
that drove the crowd from the stands.
    Bb majorBb           DmDm
Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane
    FF        G+G
where an ape with angel glands,
 C majorC    E minorEm    C majorC    E minorEm
erased the final wisps of pain
     FF        E MajorE   A minorAm
with the music of rubber bands.


Verse 5:
  Bb majorBb           A minorAm
And now I hear your master sing,
  Bb majorBb        A minorAm
you kneel for him to come.
  Bb majorBb        A minorAm
His body is a golden string
     Bb majorBb        A minorAm
that your body is hanging from.
  Bb majorBb     DmDm
His body is a golden string,
  FF        G+G
my body has grown numb.
  C majorC    E minorEm     C majorC   E minorEm
Oh now you hear your master sing,
   FF        E MajorE    A minorAm
your shirt is all undone.


Verse 6:
  Bb majorBb        A minorAm
And will you kneel beside this bed
    Bb majorBb        A minorAm
that we polished so long ago,
  Bb majorBb        A minorAm
before your master chose instead
  Bb majorBb      A minorAm
to make my bed of snow?
   Bb majorBb           DmDm
Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
      FF        G+G
and you're speaking far too low.
    C majorC    E minorEm       C majorC   E minorEm
No I can't make out what your master said
  FF       E MajorE  A minorAm
before he made you go.


Verse 7:
    Bb majorBb          A minorAm
Then I think you're playing far too rough
    Bb majorBb          A minorAm
for a lady who's been to the moon
   Bb majorBb             A minorAm
I've lain by this window long enough
    Bb majorBb        A minorAm
to get used to an empty room.
     Bb majorBb           DmDm
And your love is some dust in an old man's cuff
    FF          G+G
who is tapping his foot to a tune,
     C majorC      E minorEm     C majorC    E minorEm
and your thighs are a ruin, you want too much,
    FF                E MajorE   A minorAm
let's say you came back some time too soon.


Verse 8:
 Bb majorBb        A minorAm
I loved your master perfectly
  Bb majorBb          A minorAm
I taught him all that he knew.
    Bb majorBb          A minorAm
He was starving in some deep mystery
    Bb majorBb            A minorAm
like a man who is sure what is true.
   Bb majorBb            DmDm
And I sent you to him with my guarantee
    FF          G+G
I could teach him something new,
    C majorC     E minorEm       C majorC   E minorEm
and I taught him how you would long for me
  FF                   E MajorE  A minorAm
no matter what he said no matter what you'd do.


Verse 9:
Bb majorBb              A minorAm
I believe that you heard your master sing
Bb majorBb         A minorAm
when I was sick in bed.
Bb majorBb             A minorAm
I suppose that he told you everything
Bb majorBb              A minorAm
that I keep locked away in my head.
Bb majorBb          DmDm
Your master took you travelling,
    FF           G+G
well at least that's what you said.
   C majorC    E minorEm    C majorC   E minorEm
And now do you come back to bring
   FF          E MajorE    A minorAm

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