Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz Chords

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women
There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry
There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows
There’s a tree where the doves go to die

There’s a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the gallery of frost
Ay Ay Ay Ay take this waltz take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

Oh I want you I want you I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of the lily in some hallway
Where love’s never been

On a bed where the moon has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
Ay Ay Ay Ay take this waltz take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz,
This waltz with its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea
There’s a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews

There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
Ah but who is it climbs to your picture with a garland of freshly cut tears
Ay Ay Ay Ay take this waltz take this waltz
Take this waltz it’s been dying for years

There’s an attic where children are playing
Where I’ve got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns in the mist of some sweet afternoon

And I’ll see what you’ve chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
Ay Ay Ay Ay take this waltz take this waltz with its
I’ll never forget you you know

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz with its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea
And I’ll dance with you in Vienna I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss
And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty my cheap violin and my cross

And you’ll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
Oh my love oh my love take this waltz take this waltz
It’s yours now it’s all that there is

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