Take This Longing chords by Leonard Cohen
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Capo on 2nd
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Key: C
Difficulty: Novice
Original in Bb
INTRO:
D
VERSE 1:
C G
Many men have loved the bells
C G
You fastened to the rein
Em Am
And everyone who wanted you
Em D Em D
They found what they will always want again
F#m Bm
Your beauty lost to you yourself
F#m Bm
Just as it was lost to them
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CHORUS:
G D
Oh take this longing from my tongue
G D
Whatever useless things these hands have done
G D
Let me see your beauty broken down
F#m G D
Like you would do for one you love
VERSE 2:
C G
Your body like a searchlight
C G
My poverty revealed
Em Am
I would like to try your charity
Em D Em D
Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
F#m Bm
And everything depends upon
F#m Bm
How near you sleep to me
CHORUS:
G D
Oh take this longing from my tongue
G D
Whatever useless things these hands have done
G D
Let me see your beauty broken down
F#m G D
Like you would do for one you love
VERSE 3:
C G
Hungry as an archway
C G
Through which the troops have passed
Em Am
I stand in ruins behind you
Em D Em D
With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps
F#m Bm
I love to see you naked over there
F#m Bm
Especially from the back
CHORUS:
G D
Oh take this longing from my tongue
G D
Whatever useless things these hands have done
G D
Let me see your beauty broken down
F#m G D
Like you would do for one you love
VERSE 4:
C G
You're faithful to the better man
C G
I'm afraid that he left
Em Am
So let me judge your love affair
Em D Em D
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
F#m Bm
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
F#m Bm
That he's shaken from his head
CHORUS:
G D
Oh take this longing from my tongue
G D
Whatever useless things these hands have done
G D
Let me see your beauty broken down
F#m G D
Like you would do for one you love
OUTRO:
G D
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