Famous Blue Raincoat

Leonard Cohen - Key:

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It's four in the morning / the end of December / I'm writing you now / just to see if you're better / New York is cold / but I like where I'm living / There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening /

I hear / that you're building / your little house deep in the desert / You're living for nothing now / I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair / She said that you gave it to her / That night that you planned to go clear / Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you, you looked so much older / Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder / You'd been to the station / to meet every train / And you came home without / Lili Marlene

And you treated my woman / to a flake of your life / And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there / with the rose in your teeth / One more thin gypsy thief / Well I see Jane's awake -- / She sends her regards / And what can I tell you my brother, my killer / What can I possibly say?

I guess that I miss you / I guess I forgive you / I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here / for Jane or for me / Your enemy is sleeping / and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks / for the trouble you took from her eyes / I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

Sincerely, L. Cohen