Leonard Cohen- “Gypsy Wife”
It's the 200th week of music for the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick. My big time thanks goes out to Sibel for letting have so much fun with this BFP weekly segment. With that thanks comes this week's pick featuring Sibel's favorite artist, Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. The song is his haunting beautiful Gypsy Wife. Lyrics are below...Enjoy...and thanks Sibel!...DJPJ.
Gypsy Wife - Leonard Cohen
And where, where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight?
I've heard all the wild reports, they can't be right
But whose head is this she's dancing with on the threshing floor?
Whose darkness deepens in her arms just a little more
And where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight?
Where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight?
Ahh, the silver knives are flashing in that tired old cafe
A ghost climbs on the table in bridal negligee
She says, "My body is the light, she says, My body is the way"
I raise my arm against it all and I catch the bride's bouquet
So where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight?
Where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight?
It's too early for the rainbow, too early for the dove
These are your final days, this is the darkness, this is the flood
And there is no man, there is no woman, can't be touched
But you who come between them, you will surely be judged
So where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight?
Where, where is my Gypsy wife tonight?
Songwriter
COHEN, LEONARD