Leonard Cohen : I'm Your Man

Intro: verse chords

Am

Em

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom

Am

Em

For trying to change the system from within

Am

Em

I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them

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C

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Em

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I'm guided by a signal in the heavens I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

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Gsus4

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D

C

I'd really like to live beside you, baby

D

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Gsus4

G

Em

Esus4

Em

I love your body and your spirit and your clothes

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Gsus4

G

Em

Esus4

Em

But you see that line there moving through the station?

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C

B7

Em

I told you, I told you, I told you, I was one of those Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I don't like your fashion business, mister And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin I don't like what happened to my sister First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I'd really like to live beside you, baby I love your body and your spirit and your clothes But you see that line there moving through the station? I told you, I told you, I told you, I was one of those And I thank you for those items that you sent me The monkey and the plywood violin I practiced every night and now I'm ready First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin Ah remember me, I used to live for music Remember me, I brought your groceries in Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

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D

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C

Em

D

C

D

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I loved you for a long, long time

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I know this love is real

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It don't matter how it all went wrong

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That don't change the way I feel

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B

And I can't believe that time's

Em

C

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Gonna heal this wound that I'm speaking of

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There ain't no cure

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There ain't no cure

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G

There ain't no cure for love I'm aching for you baby I can't pretend I'm not I need to see you naked In your body and your thought I've got you like a habit And I'll never get enough There ain't no cure There ain't no cure There ain't no cure for love

Em

G

(There ain't no cure for love)

Em

G

(There ain't no cure for love)

C

All the rocket ships are climbing through the sky

C

The holy books are open wide

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The doctors working day and night

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Em

G

But they'll never ever find that cure for love

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(There ain't no drink, no drug)

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(There's nothing pure enough to be a cure for love) I see you in the subway And I see you on the bus I see you lying down with me And I see you waking up I see your hand, I see your hair Your bracelets and your brush And I call to you, I call to you But I don't call soft enough There ain't no cure There ain't no cure There ain't no cure for love I walked into this empty church I had no place else to go When the sweetest voice I ever heard Whispered to my soul I don't need to be forgiven For loving you so much It's written in the scriptures It's written there in blood I even heard the angels Declare it from above There ain't no cure There ain't no cure There ain't no cure for love (There ain't no cure for love) (There ain't no cure for love) All the rocket ships are climbing through the sky The holy books are open wide The doctors working day and night But they'll never ever find that cure, that cure for love

Em

G

Em

G

(No cure for love, there ain't no cure for love...)

Capo:

IV

Am

E

Am

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

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Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

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Everybody knows the war is over

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Everybody knows the good guys lost

Dm

E

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

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Am

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

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E

Am

That's how it goes... everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long stem rose... everybody knows Everybody knows that you love me, baby Everybody knows that you really do Everybody knows that you've been faithful Ah give or take a night or two Everybody knows you've been discreet But there were so many people you just had to meet Without your clothes... and everybody knows

C

G

Everybody knows, everybody knows

Am

G

F

C

That's how it goes everybody knows

C

G

Everybody knows, everybody knows

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F

C

Am

That's how it goes everybody knows And everybody knows that it's now or never Everybody knows that it's me or you And everybody knows that you live forever Ah when you've done a line or two Everybody knows the deal is rotten Old Black Joe's still picking cotton For your ribbons and bows... and everybody knows Everybody knows that the Plague is coming Everybody knows that it's moving fast Everybody knows that the naked man and woman Are just a shining artifact of the past Everybody knows the scene is dead But there's gonna be a meter on your bed That will disclose... what everybody knows And everybody knows that you're in trouble Everybody knows what you've been through From the bloody cross on top of Calvary To the beach of Malibu Everybody knows it's coming apart Take one last look at this Sacred Heart Before it blows... and everybody knows Everybody knows, everybody knows That's how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows, everybody knows That's how it goes Everybody knows

Em

Bm

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F#

Bm

Em

If you want a lover

D

I'll do anything you ask me to

Em

And if you want another kind of love

D

I'll wear a mask for you

Bm

If you want a partner, take my hand

G

Or if you want to strike me down in anger

A

Bm

Here I stand, I'm your man If you want a boxer I will step into the ring for you And if you want a doctor I'll examine every inch of you If you want a driver, climb inside Or if you want to take me for a ride You know you can, I'm your man

D

G

Ah, the moon's too bright, the chain's too tight

A

D

The beast won't go to sleep

F#m

I've been running through these promises to you

Bm

That I made and I could not keep

F#

Bm

Ah but a man never got a woman back not by begging on his knees

G

F#

Or I'd crawl to you baby and I'd fall at your feet

G

F#

And I'd howl at your beauty like a dog in heat

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E

And I'd claw at your heart I'd tear at your sheet

A

I'd say please, please

Bm

I'm your man

Em

Bm

Em

D

Bm

G

F#

Bm

And if you've got to sleep a moment on the road I will steer for you And if you want to work the street alone I'll disappear for you If you want a father for your child Or only want to walk with me a while Across the sand, I'm your man

Repeat first verse and fade out

C

Gsus4

G

C

Am

Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women

C

Em/b

Am

There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry

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G

There's a lobby with nine hundred windows

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Em

Dm

C

E7/b

There's a tree where the doves go to die

Am

There's a piece that was torn from the morning

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A7

Dm

C/e

And it hangs in the gallery of frost

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C/e

Dm

C

Ay, ay, ay, ay

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Take this waltz, take this waltz

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Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws |

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| 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 hallways 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 |

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This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz

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With its very own breath of brandy and Death

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Gsus4

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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 |

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| 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!" |

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| 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

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G

And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty

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Em

Dm

C

E7/b

My cheap violin and my cross

Am

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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| La, la, la...

Capo:

III

Em13 020020 F#m9 202120 / 242224

F#sus2 244x24 D9 x54555 / xx0555

F#m6 244324 G(b5) 3456x3

Em11 000002 A11 x00000

B(b5) x2344x Bb(b5) x12330

Em

C7

Can you tell me why the bells are ringing?

Em

Cm7

Bbm7

Nothing's happened in a million years

Em

Em13

I've been sitting here since Wednesday morning

C7

F7

Em

Wednesday morning can't believe my ears Jazz police are looking through my folders Jazz police are talking to my niece Jazz police have got their final orders Jazzer, drop your axe, it's Jazz police!

F#m9

D/f#

Jesus taken serious by many

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F#sus2

Dm

Cm

Jesus taken joyous by a few

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F#m6

Jazz police are paid by J. Paul Getty

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F#m

Jazzers paid by J. Paul Getty II

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Gsus4

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B(b5)

F#m

F#m/e

Jazz police I hear you calling

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C#maj7

Jazz police I feel so blue

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Bb(b5)

Fsus4

D/f#

Jazz police I think I'm falling

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I'm falling for you Wild as any freedom loving racist I applaud the actions of the chief Tell me now oh beautiful and spacious Am I in trouble with the Jazz police? Jazz police are looking through my folders Jazz police are talking to my niece Jazz police have got their final orders Jazzer, drop your axe, it's Jazz police! They will never understand our culture They'll never understand the Jazz police Jazz police are working for my mother Blood is thicker margarine than grease

F#m

D/f#

Let me be somebody I admire

F#m

Dm

Cm

Let me be that muscle down the street

F#m

F#m6

Stick another turtle on the fire

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Am

Guys like me are mad for turtle meat Jazz police I hear you calling Jazz police I feel so blue Jazz police I think I'm falling I'm falling for you

Em

C

Jazz police are looking through my folders Jazz police have got their final orders Jazz police are looking through my folders Jazz police have got their final orders Jazz police are looking...

Capo:

IV

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D

A

D

I stumbled out of bed

Bm

I got ready for the struggle

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I smoked a cigarette

Bm

A

And I tightened up my gut

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Gm

Em

I said this can't be me

F#

C

Bm

Must be my double

D

G

D

And I can't forget, (I can't forget)

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I can't forget, (I can't forget)

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I can't forget but I don't remember what |

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| | I'm burning up the road I'm heading down to Phoenix I got this old address Of someone that I knew It was high and fine and free Ah, you should have seen us And I can't forget, (I can't forget) I can't forget, (I can't forget) I can't forget but I don't remember who

F#

I'll be there today

Bm

F#

With a big bouquet of cactus

C

Bm

A

I got this rig that runs on memories

Bm

G

And I promise, cross my heart

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Bm

They'll never catch us

Bb

A

But if they do, just tell them it was me Yeah I loved you all my life And that's how I want to end it The summer's almost gone The winter's tuning up Yeah, the summer's gone But a lot goes on forever And I can't forget, (I can't forget) I can't forget, (I can't forget) I can't forget but I don't remember what

B

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey

B

I ache in the places where I used to play

E

B

And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on

F#

E

B

I'm just paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet But I hear him coughing all night long Oh a hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song I was born like this, I had no choice I was born with the gift of a golden voice And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond They tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all I'm standing by the window where the light is strong Ah they don't let a woman kill you, not in the Tower of Song Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong You see, you hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song

G#m

F#

I see you standing on the other side

G#m

F#

I don't know how the river got so wide

E

B

I loved you, baby, way back when

G#m

F#

And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed

G#m

F#

But I feel so close to everything that we lost

E

F#

We'll never have to lose it again Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on I'm just paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song

Leonard Cohen : I'm Your Man
1988

First We Take Manhattan

Ain't No Cure For Love

Everybody Knows

I'm Your Man

Take This Waltz

Jazz Police

I Can't Forget

Tower Of Song

Leonard Cohen : I'm Your Man 1988

First We Take Manhattan

Ain't No Cure For Love

Everybody Knows

I'm Your Man

Take This Waltz

Jazz Police

I Can't Forget

Tower Of Song

Leonard Cohen : I'm Your Man
1988