Take This Longing chords by Leonard Cohen

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Novice

Original in Bb majorBb

INTRO:

D MajorD


VERSE 1:

C majorC           G+G
Many men have loved the bells
C majorC          G+G
You fastened to the rein
E minorEm           A minorAm
And everyone who wanted you
E minorEm            D MajorD   E minorEm   D MajorD
They found what they will always want again
F# minorF#m               B minorBm
Your beauty lost to you yourself
   F# minorF#m        B minorBm
Just as it was lost to them

CHORUS:

  G+G             D MajorD
Oh take this longing from my tongue
  G+G                   D MajorD
Whatever useless things these hands have done
 G+G              D MajorD
Let me see your beauty broken down
F# minorF#m        G+G        D MajorD
  Like you would do for one you love

VERSE 2:

C majorC        G+G
Your body like a searchlight
C majorC       G+G
My poverty revealed
E minorEm            A minorAm
I would like to try your charity
E minorEm         D MajorD     E minorEm   D MajorD
Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
F# minorF#m           B minorBm
And everything depends upon
   F# minorF#m        B minorBm
How near you sleep to me

CHORUS:

  G+G             D MajorD
Oh take this longing from my tongue
  G+G                   D MajorD
Whatever useless things these hands have done
 G+G              D MajorD
Let me see your beauty broken down
F# minorF#m        G+G        D MajorD
  Like you would do for one you love

VERSE 3:

C majorC       G+G
Hungry as an archway
C majorC               G+G
Through which the troops have passed
E minorEm         A minorAm
I stand in ruins behind you
          E minorEm     D MajorD   E minorEm   D MajorD
With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps
F# minorF#m             B minorBm
I love to see you naked over there
   F# minorF#m      B minorBm
Especially from the back

CHORUS:

  G+G             D MajorD
Oh take this longing from my tongue
  G+G                   D MajorD
Whatever useless things these hands have done
 G+G              D MajorD
Let me see your beauty broken down
F# minorF#m        G+G        D MajorD
  Like you would do for one you love

VERSE 4:

C majorC               G+G
You're faithful to the better man
C majorC         G+G
I'm afraid that he left
E minorEm             A minorAm
So let me judge your love affair
       E minorEm        D MajorD     E minorEm    D MajorD
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
 F# minorF#m               B minorBm
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
     F# minorF#m       B minorBm
That he's shaken from his head

CHORUS:

  G+G             D MajorD
Oh take this longing from my tongue
  G+G                   D MajorD
Whatever useless things these hands have done
 G+G              D MajorD
Let me see your beauty broken down
F# minorF#m        G+G        D MajorD
  Like you would do for one you love

OUTRO:
        G+G        D MajorD
Like you would do for one you love