A Singer Must Die chords by Leonard Cohen

Bb           Asus2
Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess?
    Bb           Asus2
Is it true you betrayed us? The answer is "yes"
   Cmaj7          F
Then read me the list of the crimes that are mine
       Dsus2            G
I will ask for the mercy that you love to decline
       C            E
And all the ladies go moist, and the judge has no choice
  Am           G
A singer must die for the lie in his voice


    Bb            Asus2
And I thank you, I thank you for doing your duty
   Bb          Asus2
You keepers of truth, you guardians of beauty
  Cmaj7         F
Your vision is right, my vision is wrong
  Dsus2         G
I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song

C / E / Am / G

    Bb          Asus2
Oh, the night it is thick, my defences are hid
    Bb            Asus2
In the clothes of a woman I would like to forgive
   Cmaj7            F
In the rings of her silk, in the hinge of her thighs
    Dsus2          G
Where I have to go begging in beauty's disguise
    C           E
Oh goodnight, goodnight, my night after night
  Am             G
My night after night, after night, after night, after night


   Bb       Asus2
I am so afraid that I listen to you
   Bb             Asus2
Your sun glassed protectors they do that to you
     Cmaj7          F
It's their ways to detain, their ways to disgrace
   Dsus2             G
Their knee in your balls and their fist in your face
     C            E
Yes and long live the state by whoever it's made
    Am             G
Sir, I didn't see nothing, I was just getting home late


Bb / Asus2 / Bb / Asus2 / Cmaj7 / F / Dsus2 / G /